Jquery CSS Tutorial on Zooming Image

Jquery CSS Tutorial on how to Zoom Images

Today I will tell you about another one useful tool of JQuery – Zoomimage plugin. It allow to reach different design ideas with images resizing.

Features

• Preloads images
• The images can by grouped in galleries
• Scales the image to fit the viewport
• Keyboard gallery navigation

As example, we want to animate list of your members or your image gallery.

• Live Demo
• download in package

The  HTML

Here are sources of all 5 samples. As you notice – we having simple unordered list, they all quite same, only have different ‘id’ attribute.

<p>
    <a href="images/demo1_1.jpg" title="Seashell" class="example1"><img src="images/th_demo1_1.jpg" alt="Seashell" /></a>
    <a href="images/demo1_2.jpg" title="Chain" class="example1"><img src="images/th_demo1_2.jpg" alt="Chain" /></a>
    <a href="images/demo1_3.jpg" title="Coins" class="example1"><img src="images/th_demo1_3.jpg" alt="Coins" /></a>
    <a href="images/demo1_4.jpg" title="Ice" class="example1"><img src="images/th_demo1_4.jpg" alt="Ice" /></a>
    <a href="images/demo1_5.jpg" title="Grass" class="example1"><img src="images/th_demo1_5.jpg" alt="Grass" /></a>
</p>

<p>
    <a href="images/demo1_1.jpg" title="Seashell" class="example2"><img src="images/th_demo1_1.jpg" alt="Seashell" /></a>
    <a href="images/demo1_2.jpg" title="Chain" class="example2"><img src="images/th_demo1_2.jpg" alt="Chain" /></a>
    <a href="images/demo1_3.jpg" title="Coins" class="example2"><img src="images/th_demo1_3.jpg" alt="Coins" /></a>
    <a href="images/demo1_4.jpg" title="Ice" class="example2"><img src="images/th_demo1_4.jpg" alt="Ice" /></a>
    <a href="images/demo1_5.jpg" title="Grass" class="example2"><img src="images/th_demo1_5.jpg" alt="Grass" /></a>
</p>

<p>
    <a href="images/demo1_1.jpg" title="Seashell" class="example3"><img src="images/th_demo1_1.jpg" alt="Seashell" /></a>
    <a href="images/demo1_2.jpg" title="Chain" class="example3"><img src="images/th_demo1_2.jpg" alt="Chain" /></a>
    <a href="images/demo1_3.jpg" title="Coins" class="example3"><img src="images/th_demo1_3.jpg" alt="Coins" /></a>
    <a href="images/demo1_4.jpg" title="Ice" class="example3"><img src="images/th_demo1_4.jpg" alt="Ice" /></a>
    <a href="images/demo1_5.jpg" title="Grass" class="example3"><img src="images/th_demo1_5.jpg" alt="Grass" /></a>
</p>

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Attaching CSS

I attached 2 external CSS files

<link rel="stylesheet" media="screen" type="text/css" href="zoomimage.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" media="screen" type="text/css" href="custom.css" />

zoomimage.css, custom.css

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Adding JQuery

I attached 3 external JS files

<script type="text/javascript" src="eye.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="utils.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="zoomimage.js"></script>

And here are additional initialization code

<script type="text/javascript">

(function($){
	var initLayout = function() {
		// example 1
		$('a.example1').zoomimage();

		// example 2
		$('a.example2').zoomimage({
			border: 20,
			centered: true,
			hideSource: true
		});

		// example 3
		$('a.example3').zoomimage({
			controlsTrigger: 'mouseover',
			className: 'custom',
			shadow: 40,
			controls: false,
			opacity: 1,
			beforeZoomIn: function(boxID) {
				$('#' + boxID)
					.find('img')
					.css('opacity', 0)
					.animate(
						{'opacity':1},
						{ duration: 600, queue: false }
					);
			},
			beforeZoomOut: function(boxID) {
				$('#' + boxID)
					.find('img')
					.css('opacity', 1)
					.animate(
						{'opacity':0},
						{ duration: 600, queue: false }
					);
			}
		});
	};

	EYE.register(initLayout, 'init');
})(jQuery)

</script>

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Step 4. Images and cursors

Also we need several images and cursors for these demos:

zoomin.cur, zoomout.cur

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For developers. Customization.

Sure that it will useful too

Invocation code

All you have to do is to select the elements in a jQuery way and call the plugin.

 $('a.myLinks').zoomimage(options);

Options

A hash of parameters. All parameters are optional.

Opacity	float	The opacity for the caption and controls. Default: 0.3
border	integer	Image’s border. Default: 0
duration	integer	Animation duration. Default 300
easing	string	Animation easing. Default: linear
prevent	integer	Pixes to move the mouse before the images is dragged (prevents accidental dragging). Default: 14
controls	boolean	Whatever if the controls are displayed (if the image is not part of an library then the controls are not displayed). Default: true
caption	boolean	Whatever if the caption is displayed (the caption text is the text from ‘title’ atribute. Default: true
centered	boolean	Whatever if the image should be centered in the viewport or relative to the trigger. Default: false
hideSource	boolean	Whatever to hide source when the image is opened. Default: false
className	string	CSS class to apply to the image’s box. Default: false
controlsTrigger	string	‘focus’ to show caption and controls when the box is focused or ‘mouseover’ to show controls and caption on mouse over. Default: ‘focus’
preload	string	‘click’ to preload the image when the trigger is clicked or ‘load’ to preload the image on document load. Default: ‘click’
onLoad	function	Callback function triggered when the image was loaded
beforeZoomIn	function	Callback function triggered before the image is zoomed in
onZoomIn	function	Callback function triggered when the image is zooms in
beforeZoomOut	function	Callback function triggered before the image is zoomed out
onZoomOut	function	Callback function triggered when the image is zooms out
onFocus	function	Callback function triggered when the image is focused

Close all images and clear orphans

If you want to close all openend images or clear images without triggers (remvoed from DOM) then you can use ‘zoomimageClear’. The selection for this plugin should always be ‘div.zoomimage’.

$('div.zooimage').zoomimageClear();

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Live Demo

download in package

About: Aramis: Web Developer and Module Developer for online web applications. Have great experience with Dolphin CMS.

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