Features

Core features

• Text and icon overlays with colours, opacity, font size and caption padding
• Caption alignment inside the overlay (overlayalign)
• Hover animations: fade, slide-up, zoom-in with configurable duration
• Always-on mode via overlay="true"
• Clickable images with sanitised URLs
• Grid-based layout for reliable stacking; multiple instances side by side align to the top
• Conditional assets: CSS and JS load only when overlay shortcodes are on the page
• Front-end script: vanilla JavaScript (no jQuery dependency for this plugin)

Developer-oriented

• Namespaced CSS classes (jx- prefix) for safer styling alongside templates
• Sanitisation for paths, URLs, colours, dimensions and text
• WebAssetManager registration for Joomla 4+

Compatibility

• Joomla 4, 5 and 6
• PHP 8+ style codebase in the plugin package