I am trying to figure out how to create an image gallery like the one illustrated below so I can place it onto my website. I am wondering if anyone can point me in the right direction for a tutorial? I have found a lot of nice galleries that will display my images, but none of them displays the images like in the filmstrip style I am after.

Requirements of gallery:

1. When clicking on the arrows, the gallery strip will either shift left/right by one picture
2. Hovering over the image will darken the image, and display some caption about the image

I am trying to figure out how to create an image gallery like the one illustrated below so I can place it onto my website. I am wondering if anyone can point me in the right direction for a tutorial? I have found a lot of nice galleries that will display my images, but none of them displays the images like in the filmstrip style I am after.

Requirements of gallery:

1. When clicking on the arrows, the gallery strip will either shift left/right by one picture
2. Hovering over the image will darken the image, and display some caption about the image

• javascript
• jquery
• html
• css

• 9 First SO question that's ever made me hungry. – Michael Berkowski Commented Jun 12, 2012 at 0:08
• @Michael Thank you. I wish I can take the credit for the gorgeous photos. – Jon Commented Jun 12, 2012 at 0:09

3 Answers 3

I just answered a question where someone was using carouFredSel. This jQuery plugin looks like it would work pretty well, though I do not think it has the built-in hover effect. To be honest though, that is the easier part.

The trick is to make the width slightly larger than the images to show, which leads to the partial images on each side.

Here is a jsfiddle to illustrate.

.list_carousel {
    position: relative;
}
#prev2 {
    position: absolute;
    top: 35px;
    left: 0;
}
#next2 {
    position: absolute;
    top: 35px;
    right: 0;
}

If you have a relatively positioned container element, you can absolutely position child elements. I added relative positioning to the list_carousel container, then I could absolutely position the nav arrows within the container. Change the top value to position vertically, and left/right to position horizontally.

I also removed the pager all together, as it was not a requirement based on the original example. If you change the page arrows to images it is pretty much what you want.

• Added span wrappers around all text within list items
• Added $(".list_carousel li span").hide(); to hide all the spans
• Modified hover event to toggle spans

I also added some CSS to position the span text:

.list_carousel li { 
    position: relative;
}
.list_carousel li span {
    position: absolute;
    bottom: 0;
    display: block;
    text-align: center;
    width: 100%;
}

Hover modifications:
$(this).prepend($("<div class='hover-transparency'></div>")); and $(this).find("div:first").remove(); to add/remove transparency layer on hover in/out.

CSS modifications:

.hover-transparency {
    position: absolute;
    top: 0;
    right: 0;
    bottom: 0;
    left: 0;
    background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.60);
}

These style the transparency layer. Change to suit your taste.

Something like jCarousel should do the trick. Once you have the carousel functionality in place, you can add in the hover affect via CSS and a span that contains the caption.

I was just looking at ContentFlow Plugin which is JavaScript based.

They include a separate library of additional plugin you can use that takes care of your Slideshow requirements, in particularity this one HERE. When you use the mousewheel over the 3 images, it scrolls by 1. That said, you can mod the plugin to do the same when the arrow buttons are clicked.

Sample plugin markup looks like:

{
  shownItems: 3,    //number of visible items
  showCaption: true // show item caption
  width: 100,       // relative item width
  height: 100,      // relative item height
  space: 0.4        // relative item spacing
}

To address that the captions should be visible only on mouse hover, I would set showCaption to always be true along with using a jQuery .hover(); Event Listener that will use .show(); and .hide(); on the caption Class Name .caption when required. Also, using jQuery to set the opacity can be done within the .hover(); event too.

The latest version of ContentFlow v1.0.2 supports multiple instances on the same webpage if that's ever required.