One thing at a time....

First, the thumbnail captions and image captions in your album are already showing with normal font weight. See the two screenshots, attached - what I see in your album is shown in the normal.png image. If I force the caption to show as bold, it looks like bold.png.

Now, let's talk about HTML header tags. The <h1> - <h6> tags have default definitions in the browser, and they're all bold. They're for headers, so that makes sense. The sizes are also predefined. The skin could override those sizes, but in Tiger, only the <h1> tag has a specific font size different from what the browser would do on its own. There is no such thing as an <h8> or <h9> tag.

In short, you should not be trying to use header tags to change the displayed sizes of text - those tags do much more than just change the size. Instead, just tell Tiger to use the size you want. Go to Tiger > Advanced > Custom code > CSS and enter, for example:

.comment {font-size: 12px;}

But 12px is awfully small. Depending upon the font family, that can be tough to read on a large monitor. The default of 14px should probably be left alone.

Do you really not see the difference between these? See attachment.

BTW, Comic Sans is so hated by typographers, there's a movement to ban it. Google ban comic sans, and visit some of the results. Some good stuff.

(Laza, shame on you for including it in the preset list. )

Jeff,
Sorry, very busy at the moment...

I did that, added .comment {color: #eeeeee !important;} in the Settings-Advanced-CSS box.
BTW on my Homepage I used Calibri, but I changed it to Segoe now.

Adding the colour line resulted the very first time in changing the colour of the Album description on the Home page to dark grey (!?!?). Colour of the Comment didn't change.
When I removed that line, nothing happened. I deleted the published and the local album, created a new album....it's still dark grey. The only way to change that is to format it in Settings, General, Album description, with the formatting button.

I find it strange but I can live with that as long as I can change the format.

But actually I didn't want to change the color of the Comment of the pictures, but the Album Title. I don't see a formatting button there. I managed that once when I used Turtle. You told me to add the lines below in the Settings-Advanced-CSS box:
.hero .hero-image header > div h1 {color:yellow;}
.hero .hero-image header > div .description {color:yellow;}

That doesn't work either now in Tiger. I tried several things in the CSS box, based on what you told me before but I'm not a devolopper, I don't "speak the language".

What do I have to do to change the colour of the Album tilte?

BTW I can't change the font of the first album from Comic Sans to Segoe. I did, but nothing happened. Also deleted all albums and created a new one.

Edited by: gerbrandy6 on 27 Jul 2023, 15:13

Edited by: gerbrandy6 on 27 Jul 2023, 15:15

In fact, those old customizations should be deleted. They will either do nothing (best case), or they will produce unexpected, unwanted results (worst case).

Use one of my skins, and you can do all of those things from the UI, without custom coding. Install Neptune, for example, and look at the Neptune > Fonts tab in the skin settings (and its sub-tabs). Then choose the Custom style, and look at the Neptune > Custom tab in the settings. Tiger has more built-in features, but fewer customization options. It's a trade-off.

Laza also has an extensive background in graphics design, so most often, users would be better off accepting his choices. The tinkerers usually make things worse, not better.


There are some features that David has introduced, and loves, but that not all skin developers are happy with. The HTML formatting stuff, in my opinion, is a bit of a mess, and it often collides with the coding in a skin. So, I advise people to steer clear of it.

Remember, only David, Anders, and Laza work for jAlbum. The rest of us are independent, unpaid, third-party volunteers. Sorry to interfere with your precious work and problem-solving time.

The custom CSS styles are not universal. They work for a specific skin (and can break things in other skins, or even in older versions of the same skin.) - because they are referring to a point in the HTML structure that is specific to a skin.

If you change the font and the changes won't appear, make sure you pressed Make album, and refreshed the preview with Ctrl-F5. (Always check the result on the local preview first to exclude Upload errors.)