baguetteBox.js

Simple and easy to use lightbox script written in pure JavaScript.

Demo page

Table of contents

• Features
• Installation
• Importing
• Usage
• Customization
• API
• Responsive images
• Compatibility
• Contributing
• Credits
• License

Features

• Written in pure JavaScript, no dependencies required
• Multiple-gallery support allows custom options for each
• Supports swipe gestures on touch-screen devices
• Full-screen mode available
• Modern and minimal look
• Image captions support
• Responsive images
• CSS3 transitions
• SVG buttons, no extra files to download
• Around 3.2KB gzipped
• With Accessibility in mind

Installation

You can use one of the following methods:

npm

npm install baguettebox.js --save

Yarn

yarn add baguettebox.js

Bower

bower install baguettebox.js --save

CDN

1. Use one of the following CDN providers:

• https://cdnjs.com/libraries/baguettebox.js
• http://jsdelivr.com/projects/baguettebox.js

3. Copy URLs of the latest version (both .js and .css files)

4. Paste the URLs in your HTML file:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="<CSS URL>">
<script src="<JS URL>" async></script>

Manually

1. Download baguetteBox.min.css and baguetteBox.min.js files from the dist folder.
2. Include them somewhere in your document:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/baguetteBox.min.css">
<script src="js/baguetteBox.min.js" async></script>

Importing

Traditional approach

If you don't use JavaScript modules and include the file with a <script> tag, you don't have to import anything explicitly. baguetteBox will be available in the global scope.

CommonJS

const baguetteBox = require('baguettebox.js');

ES2015 modules

import baguetteBox from 'baguettebox.js';

Sass

@import 'baguettebox.js/dist/baguettebox.min.css';

Usage

Initialize the script by running:

baguetteBox.run('.gallery');

where the first argument is a selector to a gallery (or galleries) containing a tags. The HTML code may look like this:

<div class="gallery">
    <a href="img/2-1.jpg" data-caption="Image caption">
        <img src="img/thumbnails/2-1.jpg" alt="First image">
    </a>
    <a href="img/2-2.jpg">
        <img src="img/thumbnails/2-2.jpg" alt="Second image">
    </a>
    ...
</div>

To use captions put a title or data-caption attribute on the a tag.

Customization

You can pass an object with custom options as the second parameter.

baguetteBox.run('.gallery', {
    // Custom options
});

The following options are available:

Option	Type	Default	Description
captions	Boolean | function(element)	true	Display image captions. Passing a function will use a string returned by this callback. The only argument is a element containing the image. Invoked in the context of the current gallery array
buttons	Boolean | 'auto'	'auto'	Display buttons. 'auto' hides buttons on touch-enabled devices or when only one image is available
fullScreen	Boolean	false	Enable full screen mode
noScrollbars	Boolean	false	Hide scrollbars when gallery is displayed
bodyClass	String	'baguetteBox-open'	Class name that will be appended to the body when lightbox is visible (works in IE 10+)
ignoreClass	String	null	It will ignore images with given class put on a tag
titleTag	Boolean	false	Use caption value also in the gallery img.title attribute
async	Boolean	false	Load files asynchronously
preload	Number	2	How many files should be preloaded
animation	'slideIn' | 'fadeIn' | false	'slideIn'	Animation type
afterShow	function	null	Callback to be run after showing the overlay
afterHide	function	null	Callback to be run after hiding the overlay
onChange	function(currentIndex, imagesCount)	null	Callback to be run when image changes
overlayBackgroundColor	String	'rgba (0,0,0,0.8)'	Background color for the lightbox overlay
filter	RegExp	/.+\.(gif|jpe?g|png|webp)/i	Pattern to match image files. Applied to the a.href attribute

API

run(selector, userOptions)

Initialize baguetteBox.js

• @param selector {string} - valid CSS selector used by querySelectorAll
• @param userOptions {object} - custom options (see #Customization)
• @return {array} - an array of gallery objects (reflects elements found by the selector)

show(index, gallery)

Show (if hidden) and move the gallery to a specific index

• @param index {number} - the position of the image
• @param gallery {array} - gallery which should be opened, if omitted assumes the currently opened one
• @return {boolean} - true on success or false if the index is invalid

Usage:

const gallery = baguetteBox.run('.gallery');
baguetteBox.show(index, gallery[0]);

showNext

Switch to the next image

• @return {boolean} - true on success or false if there are no more images to be loaded

showPrevious

Switch to the previous image

• @return {boolean} - true on success or false if there are no more images to be loaded

hide

Hide the gallery

destroy

Remove the plugin with any event bindings

Responsive images

To use this feature, simply put data-at-{width} attributes on a tags with a value being the path to the desired image. {width} should be the maximum screen width the image can be displayed at. The script chooses the first image with {width} greater than or equal to the current screen width for best user experience. That last data-at-X image is also used in the case of a screen larger than X.

Here's an example of what the HTML code can look like:

<a href="img/2-1.jpg"
  data-at-450="img/thumbs/2-1.jpg"
  data-at-800="img/small/2-1.jpg"
  data-at-1366="img/medium/2-1.jpg"
  data-at-1920="img/big/2-1.jpg">
    <img src="img/thumbs/2-1.jpg">
</a>

If you have 1366x768 resolution baguetteBox.js will choose "img/medium/2-1.jpg". If, however, it's 1440x900 it'll choose "img/big/2-1.jpg". Keep the href attribute as a fallback (link to a bigger image e.g. of HD size) for older browsers.

Compatibility

Desktop:

• IE 8+
• Chrome
• Firefox 3.6+
• Opera 12+
• Safari 5+

Mobile:

• Safari on iOS
• Chrome on Android

Contributing

Feel free to report any issues! If you wish to contribute by fixing a bug or implementing a new feature, please first read the CONTRIBUTING guide.

Credits

Creation of baguetteBox.js was inspired by a great jQuery plugin touchTouch.

License

Copyright (c) 2018 feimosi

This content is released under the MIT License.