/Justified-Gallery

JQuery plugin that allows you to create a gallery with a justified grid. Fill all the spaces!

Primary LanguageJavaScriptMIT LicenseMIT

This is a JQuery plugin that allows you to create an high quality justified gallery of images.

A common problem, for people who create sites, is to create an elegant image gallery that manages the various sizes of images. Flickr and Google+ manage this situation in an excellent way, the purpose of this plugin is to give you the power of this solutions, with a new fast algorithm.

You can read the entire description of this project in the official project page.

Release History

= 3.1 =

  • Improved the algorithm to reduce the image crops
  • Fixed errors with some jQuery versions
  • Fixed errors with fixed height
  • Settings checks and parsing
  • Added event jg.rowflush

= 3.0 =

  • Totally rewritten!
  • Row by row loading
    • The plugin doesn't wait that all the gallery thumbnails are loaded
    • A row is printed when the its thumbnails are available
    • Non-blocking layout creation
  • No more white spaces (If the gallery needs to load a bigger image, it first show the smaller and then replace it with the bigger)
  • Improved the algorithm for a better result
    • No more white pixels at the end of a row (bugfix)
    • Reduced a lot the image crops
      • Vertical centering
      • Proportional images enlargement looking the image aspect ratio
  • Improved the algorithm efficiency
    • No more extra tags or new elements added to create the layout
    • All the images remain in the DOM, they aren't deleted or created
      • Hence, each tag remains in the links and in the images
  • Added maxRowHeight option
  • Custom captions
  • Thumbnails randomization (randomize option)
  • Statefulness
    • can be called again changing only some settings
    • can be called again to update the layout (after add or remove of images)
  • Infinite scroll capable
  • Improved last row behavior
    • Last row option changed
      • justifyLastRow setting has been renamed to lastRow, and it accepts: 'justify', 'nojustify', 'hide'.
    • Option to hide the row if it is incomplete and cannot be justified
    • The plugin can justify also with lastRow = 'nojustify', if the free space is small.
  • Silent error handling
    • If a thumbnail doesn't exists, it is ignored in the layout (hided)
    • If the plugin needs an inexistent thumbnail, it maintains the previous one
    • Errors are still visible in the console
  • Loading spinner
    • Visible when a new row needs to be loaded
    • Pure CSS spinner
    • Configurable changing the CSS/Less
  • Project structure
    • Grunt to manage the build
    • Less
    • Tests
    • Javascript and CSS validation
    • CSS filename changed to be more standard
  • License changed to MIT
  • Improved the gallery size check to be less invasive
  • Fixed lightbox removal when the page is resized

= 2.1 =

  • Setting removed: 'usedSizeRange', now the plugin do it automatically
  • Setting behavior changed: 'extension', now it accept a regular expression. The old behavior still works, but is not safe.
  • New behavior: if an image defines the attribute data-safe-src, this is choice, no matter what the src attribute is. This can be used to avoid the problems with Photon or other services that resize the images, changing the image srcs.

= 2.0 =

  • Setting removed: 'lightbox', now can be done simply with the onComplete callback.
  • Added Setting: 'rel' to change all the links rel attribute.
  • Added Setting: 'target' to change all the links target attribute.
  • Setting name changed: 'complete' to 'onComplete'.
  • Setting name changed: 'sizeSuffixes' to 'sizeRangeSuffixes'.
  • Setting name changed: 'usedSuffix' to 'usedSizeRange'.
  • Added the CSS for the div that shows the Justified Gallery errors. Now can be changed, or hided.

Contributing

Important notes

Please don't edit files in the dist subdirectory as they are generated via Grunt. You'll find source code in the src subdirectory!

Code style

Regarding code style like indentation and whitespace, follow the conventions you see used in the source already.

Modifying the code

First, ensure that you have the latest Node.js and npm installed.

Test that Grunt's CLI is installed by running grunt --version. If the command isn't found, run npm install -g grunt-cli. For more information about installing Grunt, see the getting started guide.

  1. Fork and clone the repo.
  2. Run npm install to install all dependencies (including Grunt).
  3. Run grunt to grunt this project.

Assuming that you don't see any red, you're ready to go. Just be sure to run grunt after making any changes, to ensure that nothing is broken.

Submitting pull requests

  1. Create a new branch, please don't work in your master branch directly.
  2. Add failing tests for the change you want to make. Run grunt to see the tests fail.
  3. Fix stuff.
  4. Update the documentation to reflect any changes.
  5. Push to your fork and submit a pull request.