Hi boaz,
You were right! it works only if there is text in both the title and the caption. after some tinkering, i found that it doesn’t matter what the text is in the caption, as long as there is text, and then the gallery displays the text in the “title” field/
although this is a solution, i believe this is a bug. it seems logical that there is a condition that tells the gallery to display something only of there is any text in the caption, but when it does, it displays the title field instead of the caption field. of course i didn’t write the code, but it seems more “right” to me
Thank you for all your help!
Problem solved