react-modal-image

react-modal-image

A lightweight React component providing modal image Lightbox.

DEMO

Features

• Only 3 kB when gzipped.
• Zero dependencies.
• Includes builds for CommonJS and ES modules.
• For React 16.x, 17.x and 18.x.
• Esc, Enter & click outside the image close the lightbox
• User can zoom & move the image or download the highest quality one
• Download and Zoom -buttons can be hidden.
• Image alt shown as title of lightbox
• Background color of transparent images can be overridden.

You need to bring your own Set and fetch polyfills if you use old Internet Explorers.

Simple API

import ModalImage from "react-modal-image";

<ModalImage
  small={urlToTinyImageFile}
  large={urlToHugeImageFile}
  alt="Hello World!"
/>;

Prop	Type	Description
className	String	Optional. class for the small preview image.
alt	String	Optional. alt for the small image and the heading text in Lightbox.
small	URL	src for the small preview image.
smallSrcSet	String	Optional. srcSet for the small preview image.
medium	URL	Optional if large is defined. Image shown when zoomed out in Lightbox.
large	URL	Optional if medium is defined. Image shown when zoomed in Lightbox. Downloadable.
hideDownload	boolean	Optional. Set to true to hide download-button from the Lightbox.
hideZoom	boolean	Optional. Set to true to hide zoom-button from the Lightbox.
showRotate	boolean	Optional. Set to true to show rotate-button within the Lightbox.
imageBackgroundColor	String	Optional. Background color of the image shown in Lightbox. Defaults to black. Handy for transparent images.

Lightbox-only API for advanced usage

You can also choose to import only the Lightbox.

To use the Lightbox only, you'll need to handle the open state by yourself:

import { Lightbox } from "react-modal-image";

// ...

const closeLightbox = () => {
  this.state.open = true;
};

// ...

{
  this.state.open && (
    <Lightbox
      medium={urlToLargeImageFile}
      large={urlToHugeImageFile}
      alt="Hello World!"
      onClose={this.closeLightbox}
    />
  );
}

Prop	Type	Description
onClose	function	Will be invoked when the Lightbox requests to be closed