lightGallery
A customizable, modular, responsive, lightbox gallery plugin for jQuery.
Demo
JQuery lightGallery demo. Codepen demo
Main features
- Fully responsive.
- Modular architecture with built in plugins.
- Touch and support for mobile devices.
- Mouse drag supports for desktops.
- Double-click/Double-tap to see actual size of the image.
- Animated thumbnails.
- Youtube Vimeo Dailymotion VK and html5 videos Support.
- 20+ Hardware-Accelerated CSS3 transitions.
- Dynamic mode.
- Full screen support.
- Supports zoom.
- Browser history API.
- Responsive images.
- HTML iframe support.
- Multiple instances on one page.
- Easily customizable via CSS (SCSS) and Settings.
- Smart image preloading and code optimization.
- Keyboard Navigation for desktop.
- Font icon support.
- And many more.
Browser support
lightgallery supports all major browsers including IE 8 and above..
Installation
Install with Bower
You can install lightgallery
using the Bower package manager.
$ bower install lightgallery --save
npm
You can also find lightgallery
on npm.
$ npm install lightgallery
Download from Github
You can also directly download lightgallery from github.
Cdnjs
If you prefer to use a CDN you can load files via cdnjs
Include CSS and Javascript files
First of all add lightgallery.css in the <head> of the document.
<head>
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="css/lightGallery.css" />
</head>
Then include jQuery and lightgallery.min.js into your document.
If you want to include any lightgallery plugin you can include it after lightgallery.min.js.
<body>
....
<script src="jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery-mousewheel/3.1.13/jquery.mousewheel.min.js"></script>
<script src="js/lightgallery.min.js"></script>
<script src="js/lg-thumbnail.min.js"></script>
<script src="js/lg-fullscreen.min.js"></script>
</body>
The markup
lightgallery does not force you to use any kind of markup. you can use whatever markup you want. But i suggest you to use the following markup. Here you can find the detailed examples of deferent kind of markups.
<div id="lightgallery">
<a href="img/img1.jpg">
<img src="img/thumb1.jpg" />
</a>
<a href="img/img2.jpg">
<img src="img/thumb2.jpg" />
</a>
...
</div>
Call the plugin
Finally you need to initiate the gallery by adding the following code.
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {
$("#lightgallery").lightGallery();
});
</script>
Support lightgallery
If you like lightgallery please support the project by staring the repository or tweet about this project.
Need collaborators
If anyone is interested in becoming a collaborator please drop me an email at sachi77n@gmail.com.
I have been quite busy lately. Unable to reply to all support and customization requests. Any assistance with this project would be greatly appreciated.
Resources
Demos
Built in modules
- Thumbnail
- Autoplay
- Video
- Fullscreen
- Pager
- Zoom
- Hash
License
Commercial license
If you want to use lightGallery to develop commercial sites, themes, projects, and applications, the Commercial license is the appropriate license. With this option, your source code is kept proprietary. Purchase a lightGallery Commercial License at uplabs.com/posts/lightgallery-plugin
Open source license
If you are creating an open source application under a license compatible with the GNU GPL license v3, you may use this project under the terms of the GPLv3.