11 Impressive JavaScript Image Load Examples

1. jQuery Flickr Gallery

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This script is a pure javascript/jQuery solution and does not require a PHP server.LazyLoad Feature for thumbnails (will only load images when thumbnails are in view)

No need for PHP unless internal image scaler is utilized; an external (web based) image scaling service is utilized by default

This script requires you to load additional JS and CSS files for your website, as well as adding some custom HTML and JavaScript lines to your page code. While the JS and CSS files can be hosted outside of your website, the JavaScript lines that are necessary to initialize the gallery and the HTML line which defines where in your page the gallery will be shown must be part of your website.Added 2nd Cloud based Image Scaling Service to create Thumbnails

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2. Responsive Gridfolio

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The gallery can have any number of images and each image can be of any size, but proportional to a base thumb width and height. Pure OOP JavaScript code, no usage of jQuery or other libraries, in this way there will be no incompatibilities with HTML pages that might be using jQuery or other JavaScript libraries. Responsive / Flexible / Fluid layout: you can control the size of the grid with CSS or JavaScript, basically it has an adaptable layout which makes it the perfect candidate for any type of project. Support for any number of images and each image can be of any size, but proportional to a base thumb width and height

Thumbnail’s description or thumbnails media icons: each thumb can have a short description with a transparent background under it or a media icon which represents a link, video or image, this are visible when the mouse is over a thumbnail, the text can be formatted with CSS, the jQuery background slideshow and opacity also can be modified (optional). “Load more thumbnails feature”: this is an awesome feature which improves the overall performance and speed of loading because in this way not all the thumbnails are loaded and displayed at once. For example if you have a total of 120 thumbnails you can show them in sets of 50 thumbnails, and so initially in the grid the first set of 50 thumbnails are loaded and displayed, and when the “load more thumbnails” button is pressed the next set of 50 thumbnails are loaded and displayed, and finally when the “load more thumbnails” button is pressed again the 20 remaining thumbnails are showed. The number of thumbnails to load per set is customizable, it does not have to be 50 it can be any number that you consider. Zoom and panning support for images: you can zoom in and out an image and you can pan the image, in this way you can see the image in great detail (optional).

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3. Ultimate Grid Responsive Gallery

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This is a HTML | CSS | JQuery Grid with a Lightbox, you can specify thumbnails for the grid and when you click on it to open the lightbox it will load the normal image, you can specify the text for the captions and for the lightbox. Also you don’t have to load all the images at once (for performance purposes) so you can specify the number of images to load when it first load and the number of images to load when you click the “load more images” button. When you have categories, and if you select a category through the navigation bar, the plugin will look and find if there still more images from that category to load and if there is more images to load it will show the “load more images” button, then when you click on it it will load more images only from that category (according to the “imagesToLoad” option). Set the number of images to load at start and when you click the “load more images” button

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4. YouTube Channel

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Features include choosing thumbnail image and size, autoplay, click, load and error event handlers, easy styling and chainability. It only takes a minute to drop in the code and with a single line of jQuery javascript – your website has a video gallery!

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5. jQuery Google+/Picasa Gallery

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This script is a pure javascript/jQuery solution and does not require a PHP server.LazyLoad Feature for thumbnails (will only load images when thumbnails are in view)

No need for PHP unless internal image scaler is utilized; an external (web based) image scaling service is utilized by default

This script requires you to load additional JS and CSS files for your website, as well as adding some custom HTML and JavaScript lines to your page code. While the JS and CSS files can be hosted outside of your website, the JavaScript lines that are necessary to initialize the gallery and the HTML line which defines where in your page the gallery will be shown must be part of your website.Added 2nd Cloud based Image Scaling Service to create Thumbnails

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6. Auto Grid Responsive Gallery

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Specify the number of images to load on every ajax request so you don’t have all of them at first when the page loads

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New Javascript property "orderInAll: true" so when you are in the all tab

the images will be load in order as well

Fixed a small bug when you click the load more images button

New Feature: If you want to link to a page when you click on an image instead

of opening a light box just in the name of the image specify the url like this:

Fixed some behavior with the tabs when the gallery load more images.WHAT it does: when you scroll at the bottom of the gallery it load more images automatically, you can see a demo here: http://gmdae.

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7. Smart Image Tooltip

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Smart Image Tooltip is easy to use and setup plugin that can show images as tooltips for thumbnails or normal links. It requires JavaScript and jQuery support to work.Basic: shows just an image with no extra styling

Simple: image with simple and clean dark border

Caption: image and caption underneath

Envato: image with extra information similar to Envato product tooltips

Preload image before displaying tooltip

Added: option – wait for image to load

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8. Hotspotter - Hotspot Maker jQuery Plugin

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Share your spots “have a direct link to it , when navigating to this link the browser window will scroll down to where the image is located & trigger spot”

Easily control spots with javascript

Test custom image spots directly in it

- fixed bug that prevented using image spots with aiming effect

- Editor: Fixed bug in image spots positioning & inclusion

- Plugin: image spots become responsive

- Plugin: image spot will also hover with aim effect

- Editor: improvement in image loading

- Editor: improvement in image spots markup

- Editor: you can now load previously generated code

- Editor: use aiming effect with custom image spots

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9. jQuery Facebook Gallery

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This script is a pure javascript/jQuery solution and does not require a PHP server.LazyLoad Feature for thumbnails (will only load images when thumbnails are in view)

No need for PHP unless internal image scaler is utilized; an external (web based) image scaling service is utilized by default

This script requires you to load additional JS and CSS files for your website, as well as adding some custom HTML and JavaScript lines to your page code. While the JS and CSS files can be hosted outside of your website, the JavaScript lines that are necessary to initialize the gallery and the HTML line which defines where in your page the gallery will be shown must be part of your website.Once you purchased the script, you will receive a full manual that explains all available settings and also includes some information about the generated markup and how to target / call tool-tip content and image links with alternative plugins.Added 2nd Cloud based Image Scaling Service to create Thumbnails

Fixed error where the link to the full size image (disk icon) does not always use the correct link

Added lazy-load feature for all album and photo thumbnails HTML

Changed from Facebook Javascript API to direct Facebook Graph requests via JSON to (hopefully) avoid future “Access Token” requests

Fixed error where script occasionally doesn’t load all images in album (up to specified limit in settings)

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10. Spectrum Gallery Plugin

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Spectrum is a superb JavaScript gallery plugin, which will work with jQuery, as an AMD Module or a browser global. It has support for image cropping, true to proportion JavaScript image scroller and perfect image alignment. Is there an image animation style that is missing? No problem. You could extend the image method library by adding your own methods, which could, lets say, rotate an image as it slides into position. All the little things like gallery and image creation is handled by the plugin, you only have to specify the url for each image. Be it using new curves, image specific animation, or entire compositions that orchestrate the moment of the gallery. Spectrum has cool gallery cover option, which allows you to use a single image, as the cover of the gallery. This can be useful when used as a loading screen whilst your gallery images load in the background, and can be set to swipe away as soon as they have loaded.Image Binding

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11. Responsive Slideshow Photo Gallery Grid

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Pure OOP JavaScript code, no usage of jQuery or other libraries, in this way there will be no incompatibilities with HTML pages that might be using jQuery or other JavaScript libraries. Flexible / Fluid layout: you can control the size of the grid with CSS or JavaScript, basically it has an adaptable layout which makes it the perfect candidate for any type of project. “Load more thumbnails feature”: this is an awesome feature which improves the overall performance and speed of loading because in this way not all the thumbnails are loaded and displayed at once. For example if you have a total of 120 thumbnails you can show them in sets of 50 thumbnails, and so initially in the grid the first set of 50 thumbnails are loaded and displayed, and when the “load more thumbnails” button is pressed the next set of 50 thumbnails are loaded and displayed, and finally when the “load more thumbnails” button is pressed again the 20 remaining thumbnails are showed. The number of thumbnails to load per set is customizable, it does not have to be 50 it can be any number that you consider. Zoom and panning support for images: you can zoom in and out an image and you can pan the image, in this way you can see the image in great detail (optional).

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