Before you head down a long, difficult road, only to produce an obsolete, non-responsive page layout, a couple of questions:

First, why do you not want these videos to be just a regular slideshow/gallery?

Second, what do you want to have happen when a user clicks on the thumbnail for one of the videos? Do you want him to be taken to the YouTube site, where he would then view the video?

And if you want the videos to be shown in the lightbox, like everything else, but don't want the automated slideshow, you could just turn that off for the album. I don't think there's an easy way to disable it just for one folder.

ETA: Like this:

https://jefftucker.jalbum.net/tigerVids2/

@JeffTucker

Your 3rd post showed up after I had followed up on your first two. In it you wrote:

"And if you want the videos to be shown in the lightbox, like everything else, but don't want the automated slideshow, you could just turn that off for the album. I don't think there's an easy way to disable it just for one folder.

ETA: Like this:

https://jefftucker.jalbum.net/tigerVids2/"

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Well, I beg to differ - yes, your second "Vids2" example reflects that your "Image" folder/page no longer is a slideshow. BUT...

Your first example did: Images have a slideshow, "Videos" (/Vids) does not. Check it out for yourself by starting with your Index page, going to Images, then Videos

You're going to have all kinds of problems trying to get one folder to behave differently from all the others. The basic album structure simply doesn't support it. There is one CSS file that's used for the entire album, so you can't have one background color in one folder, but a different background color in another. By the same token, there is only one set of Javascript files, so if the automated slideshow is available in one folder, it has to be available in all folders. If one folder is showing the file titles and comments below the thumbnails, all folders must show them.

I think I would approach this differently. I'd create one album that has only the folders with images, and another separate album just for the videos. Then I'd provide a link to the "videos" album from the main "images" album, as a web location.

Give me a little time to tinker, so I can provide a good demo.

OK, here's a cobbled-together demo.

https://jefftucker.jalbum.net/tigerImages/

What's not immediately obvious is that this is an album project with only two folders - Saturn and Jupiter - and a web location link to a completely separate, independent album project for the videos.

The other album project is here:

https://jefftucker.jalbum.net/tigerYT/

Each project contains links that point to the other, so it ends up being fairly seamless. I've even fooled the top bar navigation into handling both albums.

Since the videos are in a totally independent project, you can choose whatever options you like for it - no automated slideshow, display of the title and comment on the thumbnails, a completely different style (colors), different fonts, and so on. You can customize it to your heart's content without altering the options for the main "images" album. You can use the skin's custom CSS capabilities to alter things like font sizes, for example.

I did stumble on the need to make one compromise - if you try to show image counts, things get haywire in a hurry, because each project ends up trying to include the image counts from the other projects that it's pointing to. In short, lots of double counting.

That's because in my first example, the videos aren't being displayed by jAlbum at all. The links just take the visitor to the YouTube site. There's no navigation back to the album, no "prev/next" navigation, no titles or comments, etc. In short, that approach breaks out of jAlbum entirely. Sub-optimal, IMO.

OK, thanks. I'll have to come back and study what you've done and hopefully I'll be able to pull it off. I'll then mark it as "answered".