0.1.0 • Published 8 years ago

flashybox v0.1.0

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License
MIT
Repository
github
Last release
8 years ago

Flashybox

A small (less than 3 KB gzipped!) jQuery (2.x) plugin to show fixed size image collage with fading images. You just provide list of images in a markup and call flashybox() on it and it'll covert images into flashybox wall.

###Example Example Result

Click here to view demo GIF.

###Usage

Download the tarball and extract it, include jquery.flashy.js after including jquery using script tag in your page <head>.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
	<title>My Flashy Page</title>
	...
	...
	<script type="text/javascript" src="js/jquery.js"></script>
	<script type="text/javascript" src="js/jquery.flashy.js"></script>
</head>

For the sake of convenience, Flashybox is also made available as an NPM module (since it supports CommonJS-style loading). Install it using npm

npm install flashybox --save

###Use

####Basic Usage

  • Initialize: You'll need all your images in the markup either directly within a div or in a ul as follows (any parent element will do as long as you use <img> for images). Be sure that you have flashybox-container class specified in your parent.
<div class="flashybox-container">
	<img src="images/img1.jpg" alt="" />
	<img src="images/img2.jpg" alt="" />
	<img src="images/img3.jpg" alt="" />
	<img src="images/img4.jpg" alt="" />
	<img src="images/img5.jpg" alt="" />
	<img src="images/img6.jpg" alt="" />
	<img src="images/img7.jpg" alt="" />
	<img src="images/img8.jpg" alt="" />
	<img src="images/img9.jpg" alt="" />
	<img src="images/img10.jpg" alt="" />
</div>

This is just a temporary markup and flashy will replace it using built-in template.

  • Call: Flashybox provides a method flashybox() which optionally accepts config map to provide certain options.
<script type="text/javascript">
	$(function() {
	    $('.flashybox-container').flashybox({
            boxWidth: 300,                  // Width in Px to Keep for each Flashy Box containing images (Default: 300).
            boxHeight: 250,                 // Height to keep for each Flasy Box (Default: 250).
            flashInterval: 3000,            // Interval in MS to wait before flash (Default: 3 sec).
            animationDuration: "slow",      // Duration for animation; value can be anything that jQuery fadeIn/fadeOut duration supports (Default: "slow").
            flashAllAtOnce: false,          // Flash all Images at Once (Default: false).
            flashAtOnce: 1                  // Provide number of images to flash at once (applicable only if flashAllAtOnce is false, Default: 1).
	    });
	});
</script>

Known Issues


  • For Consistency in box size, Flashybox forces image resize in blocks, obviously it requires some CSS wizardry to keep image aspect-ratio intact along with consistent box size, but my intention is to keep the plugin simple to understand and hack. However, pull-requests are welcome.

###Version Information

  • 0.1.0 - First Release.

###Author

Kushal Pandya