jQuery lightGallery

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JQuery lightGallery demo

Description

JQuery lightGallery is a lightweight jQuery lightbox gallery for displaying image and video gallery

Changelog

Added

Animated thumbnails.
Custom Html inseted of caption and description.
Custom selector property insted of just child.
destroy() method.
isActive() to check gallery active state.
iframe support.
showAfterLoad settings to show content once it is fully loaded
Callback parameter(plugin).
HTML support. inline and external.
currentPagerPosition setting to set Position of selected thumbnail.

Removed

Gallery relation.
captionLink
caption
desc

Main Features

Responsive layout.
Touch support for mobile devices.
Animated thumbnails.
CSS transitions with jQuery fallback
Youtube Vimeo Video Support
Slide and Fade Effects
Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Opera, IE7+, IOS, Android, windows phone.
HTML iframe support.
Multiple instances on one page
Easily customizable via CSS and Settings
Lightweight (7kb) (minified)
Separate images for mobile devices
Can be extended with callbacks
Smart image preloading and code optimization
Keyboard Navigation for desktop
Font icon support

How to use lightGallery?

The code

add the Following code to the <head> of your document.

<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="css/lightGallery.css" />           
<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="js/lightGallery.js"></script>
// Do not include both lightGallery.js and lightGallery.min.js

HTML Structure

Create ul and li elements and add the path of the image or video inside the data-src attributes which you wish to open within the lightGallery.

<ul id="lightGallery">
  <li data-src="img/img1.jpg">
    <img src="img/thumb1.jpg" />
  </li>
  <li data-src="img/img2.jpg">
    <img src="img/thumb2.jpg" />
  </li>
  ...
</ul>

Data attributes

    <!-- the image/video source for mobile devices -->
    <li data-responsive-src="mobile1.jpg" > </li>
    <!-- the large version of your image/video -->
    <li data-src="img1.jpg" > </li>
     
    <!-- Custom html (Caption description comments ...) -->
    <li data-html="<h3>My caption</h3><p>My description..</p>" /> </li>
    <!-- id or class name of an object(div) which contain your html. -->
    <li data-html="#inlineHtml" > </li>
     
    <!-- Remote URL which you want to load.. -->
    <li data-url="myCustomHtml.html" > </li>
     
    <!-- If true your src will be displayed in an iframe.. -->
    <li data-iframe="true" data-src="http://www.w3schools.com/" > </li>

Call lightGallery!

<script type="text/javascript">
  $(document).ready(function() {
    $("#lightGallery").lightGallery(); 
  });
</script>

Play with settings

    <script type="text/javascript">
    $(document).ready(function() {
    $("#lightGallery").lightGallery({
     
    mode : 'slide', // Type of transition between images. Either 'slide' or 'fade'.
    useCSS : true, // Whether to always use jQuery animation for transitions or as a fallback.
    easing : 'linear', // Value for CSS "transition-timing-function" prop. and jQuery .animate().
    speed : 1000, // Transition duration (in ms).
    class : '', // Add custom class for gallery.
    preload : 1, //number of preload slides. will exicute only after the current slide is fully loaded. ex:// you clicked on 4th image and if preload = 1 then 3rd slide and 5th slide will be loaded in the background after the 4th slide is fully loaded.. if preload is 2 then 2nd 3rd 5th 6th slides will be preloaded.. ... ...
    showAfterLoad : true, // Show Content once it is fully loaded.
    selector : null, // Custom selector property insted of just child.
    index : false, // Allows to set which image/video should load when using dynamicEl.
    html : false, // Enables custon html. Content is taken from "data-html" / "data-url" attributes.
     
    dynamic : false, // Set to true to build a gallery based on the data from "dynamicEl" opt.
    dynamicEl : [], // Array of objects (src, thumb, caption, desc, mobileSrc) for gallery els.
     
    thumbnail : true, // Whether to display a button to show thumbnails.
    exThumbImage : false, // Name of a "data-" attribute containing the paths to thumbnails.
    animateThumb : true, // Enable thumbnail animation.
    currentPagerPosition : 'middle', // Position of selected thumbnail.
    thumbWidth : 100, // Width of each thumbnails
    thumbMargin : 5, // Spacing between each thumbnails
     
    controls : true, // Whether to display prev/next buttons.
    hideControlOnEnd : false, // If true, prev/next button will be hidden on first/last image.
    loop : false, // Allows to go to the other end of the gallery at first/last img.
    auto : false, // Enables slideshow mode.
    pause : 4000, // Delay (in ms) between transitions in slideshow mode.
    escKey : true, // Whether lightGallery should be closed when user presses "Esc".
    closable : true, //allows clicks on dimmer to close gallery
     
    counter : false, // Shows total number of images and index number of current image.
    lang : { allPhotos: 'All photos' }, // Text of labels.
     
    mobileSrc : false, // If "data-responsive-src" attr. should be used for mobiles.
    mobileSrcMaxWidth : 640, // Max screen resolution for alternative images to be loaded for.
    swipeThreshold : 50, // How far user must swipe for the next/prev image (in px).
     
    vimeoColor : 'CCCCCC', // Vimeo video player theme color (hex color code).
    videoAutoplay : true, // Set to false to disable video autoplay option.
    videoMaxWidth : 855, // Limits video maximal width (in px).
     
    // Callbacks plugin = current plugin
    onOpen : function(plugin) {}, // Executes immediately after the gallery is loaded.
    onSlideBefore : function(plugin) {}, // Executes immediately before each transition.
    onSlideAfter : function(plugin) {}, // Executes immediately after each transition.
    onSlideNext : function(plugin) {}, // Executes immediately before each "Next" transition.
    onSlidePrev : function(plugin) {}, // Executes immediately before each "Prev" transition.
    onBeforeClose : function(plugin) {}, // Executes immediately before the start of the close process.
    onCloseAfter : function(plugin) {}, // Executes immediately once lightGallery is closed.
    });
    });
    </script>

In-depth explanation of settings can be found on a separate page.

Public methods

    <script type="text/javascript">
    $(document).ready(function() {
        var gallery = $("#lightGallery").lightGallery();
        gallery.isActive(); //check active state of lightGallery;
        gallery.destroy(); //to destroy the plugin on the given element.
    });
    </script>

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