v-img is a plugin for Vue.js that allows you to show images in full-screen gallery by adding only one directive to the <img> tag.

Demonstration page

Browser support

Firefox	Chrome	Safari	Opera	Firefox (mobile)	Chrome (mobile)	Safari (mobile)
32	44	9.1	32	✅	✅	✅

Installation

via npm

npm install v-img --save

In your script entry point:

import Vue from 'vue';
import VueImg from 'v-img';

Vue.use(VueImg);

via CDN

• make sure to change latest to the number of latest version of the plugin to avoid compatibility problems.

<!-- After vuejs -->
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/v-img@latest/dist/v-img.min.js"></script>

Optional configurations

*in this snippet all settings has its default value. No need to specify them unless you want to change default behavior. Unfortunately if you used CDN way to include plugin you can't set up these options, but still can set them up inline.

const vueImgConfig = {
  // Use `alt` attribute as gallery slide title
  altAsTitle: false,
  // Display 'download' button near 'close' that opens source image in new tab
  sourceButton: false,
  // Event listener to open gallery will be applied to <img> element
  openOn: 'click',
}
Vue.use(VueImg, vueImgConfig);

Usage

Add v-img directive to the image.

<img v-img src="...">

Available options

Add similar directive arguments to place images to one gallery. (:name from the example below could be anything you want)

<img v-img:name src="...">
<img v-img:name src="...">

Options that could be specified in directive value

<img v-img="{...}" src="...">

Option	Description	Default value	Data type
group	The same as directive argument, but could be set dynamically	directive argument or undefined	string
src	Image source that will be displayed in gallery	src attribute value from html tag	string
title	Caption that will be displayed	empty string or value of the alt attribute, if altAsTitle is true	string
openOn	Event listener to open gallery will be applied to <img>. Available options are 'dblclick', 'mouseover' and all native JS events.	'click' if another not stated when initializing plugin	string
sourceButton	Display 'download' button near 'close' that opens source image in new tab	false if sourceButton is not set to true when initializing plugin	boolean
opened	Function that will be executed on gallery open	undefined	function
closed	Function that will be executed on gallery close	undefined	function
changed(imageIndex)	Function that will be executed when switching between images in gallery	undefined	function
cursor	Cursor when hovering original <img>	'pointer'	string

• Any of these options except opened, closed, changed functions and openOn property could be changed at runtime.