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CSS Image Gallery

Author: Dynamic Drive

This is a purely CSS based image gallery that displays larger versions of thumbnail images dynamically when the mouse hovers over them. A rich HTML caption can be added to the enlarged image, and every aspect of the Image Gallery exists as plain HTML on the page. The idea is to use CSS's ":hover" pseudo class to cause an element to react onMouseover. When that happens, an absolutely positioned container holding the enlarged image, anchored on the page by another container with position set to relative, is shown. Furthermore, it's possible to modify the behavior so the enlarged images are only shown onClick, though IE6 currently doesn't support this behavior well. The gallery works in IE6+, Firefox, Opera 8+.

Demo:

Simply beautiful.

So real, it's unreal. Or is it?

Sushi for dinner anyone?

Run wild with horses.
Dynamic Drive

Dynamic Drive
Zoka Coffee

Zoka Coffee

Note: Here the enlarged images are set to "overlay" any content that it may come in contact with. You can easily disable overlaying just by giving the gallery container (.gallerycontainer) a height set to that of the largest image's.

The CSS:

<style type="text/css">

.gallerycontainer{
position: relative;
/*Add a height attribute and set to largest image's height to prevent overlaying*/
}

.thumbnail img{
border: 1px solid white;
margin: 0 5px 5px 0;
}

.thumbnail:hover{
background-color: transparent;
}

.thumbnail:hover img{
border: 1px solid blue;
}

.thumbnail span{ /*CSS for enlarged image*/
position: absolute;
background-color: lightyellow;
padding: 5px;
left: -1000px;
border: 1px dashed gray;
visibility: hidden;
color: black;
text-decoration: none;
}

.thumbnail span img{ /*CSS for enlarged image*/
border-width: 0;
padding: 2px;
}

.thumbnail:hover span{ /*CSS for enlarged image*/
visibility: visible;
top: 0;
left: 230px; /*position where enlarged image should offset horizontally */
z-index: 50;
}

</style>

The HTML:

<div class="gallerycontainer">

<a class="thumbnail" href="#thumb"><img src="media/tree_thumb.jpg" width="100px" height="66px" border="0" /><span><img src="media/tree.jpg" /><br />Simply beautiful.</span></a>

<a class="thumbnail" href="#thumb"><img src="media/ocean_thumb.jpg" width="100px" height="66px" border="0" /><span><img src="media/ocean.jpg" /><br />So real, it's unreal. Or is it?</span></a>

<br />

<a class="thumbnail" href="#thumb"><img src="media/sushi2_thumb.jpg" width="100px" height="75px" border="0" /><span><img src="media/sushi2.jpg" /><br />Sushi for dinner anyone?</span></a> 

<a class="thumbnail" href="#thumb"><img src="media/horses_thumb.jpg" width="100px" height="70px" border="0" /><span><img src="media/horses.jpg" /><br />Run wild with horses.</span></a>

<br />

<a class="thumbnail" href="#thumb">Dynamic Drive<span><img src="media/dynamicdrive.gif" /><br />Dynamic Drive</span></a>

<br />

<a class="thumbnail" href="#thumb">Zoka Coffee<span><img src="media/zoka.gif" /><br />Zoka Coffee</span></a>

</div>

Code Info

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Date Posted: 05/07/2006

Revision History: None

Usage Terms: Click here

Your Comments (322)

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Comment Pages 22 of 33 pages « First < 20 21 22 23 24 > Last »

Thanks a lot for this great code! Just one question: Why is the text under the image always underlined?

Posted by Stefanie on 01/04, 06:53 PM

Beautiful! This is a perfect solution to my gallery problem! Thanks!

Posted by Liz on 01/04, 11:33 PM

Trying to find code to prevent printing the enlarged photos from a Front Page photo gallery.

Posted by Robbin Gulino on 01/07, 11:26 AM

hmmm i need citations in the boxes but it doesn't show up example: <http://........>

Posted by FBH on 01/09, 08:16 PM

It preloads the images. Totally useless for large amount of images or slow speed connection.

Posted by commander cool on 01/14, 09:20 AM

Great piece of code. Thank you. Works like a charm, and is simple and elegant.

Posted by Julian Gordon on 01/16, 02:23 PM

Brilliant just what I was looking for

Posted by Melanie on 01/19, 09:00 AM

Why is this image gallery not working properly in Safari??? I finally got it fuction in Firefox on PC and MAC and in IE on PC, but safari is a mess.

Any one have this issue??

Please help!

Posted by Deborah on 01/22, 07:04 PM

Muy buena animacion.

Codigo simple pero con gran efecto, espero haya mas de esto, si es asi me lo hacen saber... http://christiansaldana.pe.nu o mr_frosg@hotmail.com se los agradecere...

Posted by Christian on 01/25, 07:39 AM

Really good to have in my web buiding repertoire.
Thank you.

Posted by algarve on 01/26, 12:20 PM

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