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 only 7k each (minified script, not gziped)
• Uses silky-smooth, hardware accelerated, CSS3 transitions and animations (for better performance)
• Pretty UI and easy UX
• CSS3 preloader, tailored-made. The only image you need is the arrow.png (soon even not that)
• Works also on IE9 and above, but clearly not as nice as in normal browsers
• Uses event-delegation on all thumbnails events

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
• 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>
	$('#gallery a').photobox();
</script>

settings

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.