Yeah, that’s what I’d heard from a lot of people. Hopefully this’ll prompt a few people to update 🙂

I hadn’t really considered that 🙂 Of course, though, with the latest update to captions, you can just slot HTML into those captions.

Great code and certainly good to know how to do this though thank you!

Yeah – Shawn’s suggestion of going transparent on hover would do the trick for that, though 🙂

Sure – what I’ve got here is actually quite simple so it’d be interesting to see what people do with a slightly more fancy version 🙂

If you wanted to remove the caption on hover, you could just use something like this and maybe add some nice CSS3 transitions, too:

.wp-caption-text:hover{ background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5); }