/JavaScript-flexImages

A lightweight vanilla JavaScript plugin for creating fluid galleries as seen on Flickr and Google Images.

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JavaScript-flexImages

A lightweight vanilla JavaScript plugin for creating fluid galleries as seen on Flickr and Google Images.

Tested in Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Opera, Internet Explorer 8+. No dependencies, written in plain JavaScript. Released under the MIT License: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php

This plugin was developed by and for Pixabay.com - an international repository for sharing free public domain images. We have implemented this plugin in production and we share this piece of software - in the spirit of Pixabay - freely with others.

Demo and Documentation

https://goodies.pixabay.com/javascript/flex-images/demo.html

Features

  • Lightweight: 2.1 kB of JavaScript - less than 1.0 kB gzipped
  • Source images/objects can have any size
  • Works with more than just images, e.g. videos, iframes and plain text
  • Responsive
  • Equal margins between images controlled via CSS
  • No cropping or reordering
  • AJAX ready, e.g. for infinite scrolling
  • Support for lazy loading of images and iframe contents
  • Layout options to control e.g. the maximum number of rows - or whether or not to display an incomplete (last) row.

Changelog

Version 1.0.0 - 2015/05/02

  • Initial release