photobox

A lightweight CSS3 image gallery that is pretty to look and and easy to use.

##Demo page, Blog post

Benefits

• Both the script & CSS are ~9k each (minified script) and can get much less using gzip compression.
• Uses silky-smooth, hardware accelerated, CSS3 transitions and animations (for better performance)
• Pretty UI and easy UX
• Built so everything could be changed directly from the CSS
• CSS3 pre-loader, tailored-made
• The only image is a pre-loader animation for old IE. For the rest, no images at all!
• Works also on IE8 and above, but clearly not as nice as on modern browsers
• Uses event-delegation on all thumbnails clicks
• Observes DOM changes (if images were added or removed) and adapt accordingly

Funcionality

• Images can be zoomed in and out with mousewheel and navigated using mousemove to move around
• Bottom row of thumbnails, navigated by mouse movment
• Shows the image's 'alt' or 'title' attribute text at the bottom
• Indicate the index of the current viewed image in relation to the total, like so: (36/100)
• Supports looping after first and last images
• Auto-playing of images at a set interval (see "time" in Settings)
• Supports keyboard keys for navigation and closing the gallery view
• In case there was an error loading an image, a message is showen, which can be configured via CSS

Basic use-case example:

<div id='gallery'>
    <a href="http://www.somedomain.com/images/image1_large.jpg">
    	<img src="http://www.somedomain.com/images/image1_small.jpg" alt="photo1 title">
	</a>
	<a href="http://www.somedomain.com/images/image2_large.jpg">
		<img src="http://www.somedomain.com/images/image2_small.jpg" alt="photo2 title">
	</a>
	<a href="http://www.somedomain.com/images/image3_large.jpg">
		<img src="http://www.somedomain.com/images/image3_small.jpg" alt="photo3 title">
	</a>
	<a href="http://www.somedomain.com/images/image4_large.jpg">
		<img src="http://www.somedomain.com/images/image4_small.jpg" alt="photo4 title">
	</a>
</div>
...
...
...
<script>
    // applying photobox on a `gallery` element which has lots of thumbnails links. Passing options object as well:
	$('#gallery').photobox('a',{ time:0 });
</script>

Changing effects is easy!

Advanced CSS users would know this, but for rest, you can just copy the below example code at the end of the photobox.css file:

#pbOverlay .imageWrap img, #pbOverlay.hide .imageWrap img.prepare{ transform:rotateX(90deg); -webkit-transform:rotateX(90deg); -ms-transform:rotateX(90deg); }
#pbOverlay.hide .imageWrap img{ transform:rotateX(-90deg); -webkit-transform:rotateX(-90deg); transform:none\9; opacity:.6; }

Basicly, I'm just playing with the image's style state; before it's appearance and during hiding, so you can do whatever here really.

Settings

time (default: 3000) minimum 1000ms allowed

The time in miliseconds when autoplaying a gallery. Set as '0' to hide the autoplay button completely.

autoplay (default: false)

should the gallery autoplay on start or not.

loop (Default: 'true')

Loop back to last image before the first one and to the first image after last one.

thumbs (Default: 'true')

Show thumbs of all the images in the gallery at the bottom.

counter (Default: 'true')

Show the current image index position relative to the whole. Example (3,11). 

hideFlash (Default: 'true')

Hide flash instances when viewing an image in the gallery.

keys.close (Default: "27, 88, 67")

Key codes which close the gallery.

keys.prev (Default: "37, 80")

Key codes which change to the previous image.

keys.next (Default: "39, 78")

Key codes which change to the next image.