Spotlight 0.7.0 is coming soon during Dezember 2020, packed with fixes of all the github posted issues also a lot of feature requests like video support or embedding a gallery inline.
Web's most easy to integrate lightbox gallery library. Super-lightweight, outstanding performance, no dependencies.
Demo  •  Getting Started  •  Gallery Groups  •  Options  •  Styling  •  API  •  Custom Builds
Spotlight runs out of the box:
- No additional Javascript coding
- No additional HTML snippets
- No additional CSS resources
- No additional icons/assets
- No additional handling of dynamic content and event listener
Alternatively you can:
- use the non-bundled version of this library (classically contains css files, image files, js files)
- use the source files (compatible for the ES6 module system)
- Gallery groups (group images to specific galleries)
- Gallery Tools:
- Fullscreen
- Zoom in/out
- Toggle resize
- Switch theme
- Autoplay
- Progress Bar
- Page
- Title (inherits from image "alt"-attribute)
- Description
- Preloader
- Prefetch next image (background task)
- Custom options
- Simply customize via markup (data-attributes)
- Arrange built-in animations
- Custom themes
- Custom animations
- Controls:
- Keyboard
- Touch
- Mousemove
- Mousewheel
- Browser history detection
- Back-Button (Android)
- Global API for programmatic usage
Technical properties:
- Outstanding performance
- Memory optimized, tiny footprint, fully cleans up
- Event capturing (just one single global event listener)
- Bind event listener for components dynamically:
- install when gallery opens
- fully cleanup when gallery was closed
- No dependencies, no jQuery
- Responsive
- Super-lightweight, all in all just 7kb gzip (js css html icons)
- Support for ES6 module system
Version Explanation
| Bundle Standalone | All assets bundled into one single file (js css html icons). |
| Bundle CDN | Also a bundled file (js html), but icons and css will load from extern CDN. |
| Non-Bundled | Each asset file exists separately. Recommended when extended customization is needed. |
Get Latest Build (Stable):
| Bundle Standalone: | ||
| spotlight.bundle.js | Download | https://rawcdn.githack.com/nextapps-de/spotlight/0.6.3/dist/spotlight.bundle.js |
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Bundle CDN: |
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| spotlight.cdn.js | Download | https://rawcdn.githack.com/nextapps-de/spotlight/0.6.3/dist/spotlight.cdn.js |
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Non-Bundled: |
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| spotlight.min.js | Download | https://rawcdn.githack.com/nextapps-de/spotlight/0.6.3/dist/js/spotlight.min.js |
| spotlight.css | Download | https://rawcdn.githack.com/nextapps-de/spotlight/0.6.3/dist/css/spotlight.css |
| img.zip | Download | Alternatively when using non-bundled version you can download icons from /dist/img/. |
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ES6 Modules: |
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| src.zip | Download | The folder "src" of this Github repository. |
Get Latest Build (Nightly):
Just exchange the version number from the URLs above with "master", e.g.: "/spotlight/0.6.3/dist/" into "/spotlight/master/dist".
Get Latest (NPM):
npm install spotlight.jsGet Latest (ES6 Modules):
https://github.com/nextapps-de/spotlight/tree/master/src
1. Just insert the script resource tag right after the documents head:
When you need to add custom styling through css class modifications it is recommended to load the library before you load the css which contains the modifications. Otherwise you have to add an "!important" flag to override existing styles.
<html>
<head>
<script src="spotlight.bundle.js"></script>
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
<!-- CONTENT -->
</body>
</html>2. Add the class spotlight to an anchor element accordingly, e.g.:
<a class="spotlight" href="img1.jpg">
<img src="thumb1.jpg">
</a>
<a class="spotlight" href="img2.jpg">
<img src="thumb2.jpg">
</a>
<a class="spotlight" href="img3.jpg">
<img src="thumb3.jpg">
</a>This also works with dynamically loaded content. There is no need to inject listeners on new elements. Instead Spotlight make use of global event capturing.
Alternatively you can also use the Spotlight API for programmatically use.
Usage with non-anchor elements:
<div class="spotlight" data-src="img1.jpg">
<div><!-- ... --></div>
</a>Pretty much the same like anchors but use data-src instead of href.
Give one of the outer wrapping element the class spotlight-group, e.g.:
<div class="spotlight-group">
<a class="spotlight" href="dog1.jpg">
<img src="dog1-thumb.jpg">
</a>
<a class="spotlight" href="dog2.jpg">
<img src="dog2-thumb.jpg">
</a>
<a class="spotlight" href="dog3.jpg">
<img src="dog3-thumb.jpg">
</a>
</div>
<div class="spotlight-group">
<a class="spotlight" href="cat1.jpg">
<img src="cat1-thumb.jpg">
</a>
<a class="spotlight" href="cat2.jpg">
<img src="cat2-thumb.jpg">
</a>
<a class="spotlight" href="cat3.jpg">
<img src="cat3-thumb.jpg">
</a>
</div>Pass options as declarative via data-attributes in the HTML markup or use the Spotlight API.
When using markup follow these style:
data-option="value"(change option and value accordingly), e.g.:<a class="spotlight" data-preftech="false"></a>.
You can either apply the following data-attributes to the spotlight-group wrapper element or apply them separately to each spotlight anchor element (that also overrides group definitions).
| Option        | Values | Description |
| index | number | Sets the starting index when showing the gallery by using the Spotlight API. The index starts from 1. |
| onchange | function(index) |
Pass a callback function which is get fired every time when a page has changed (the first parameter is equal to the new index). Note: The image may not have been fully loaded when the event is fired (preloading phase). The index starts from 1. |
| animation |
"fade" "slide" "scale" "flip" |
Change animation (use built-ins) Note: Could also combined as comma-separated list, e.g: data-animation="slide,fade,scale" (this is the default animation).
|
| control | string |
Show/hide control elements as "whitelisted" through a comma-separated list, e.g. data-control="autofit,page,fullscreen"
|
| autohide | true / false / number | Enable/disable automatically hide controls when inactive, also set cooldown time |
| fullscreen | true / false | Show/hide fullscreen button |
| zoom | true / false | Show/hide both zoom buttons |
| zoomin | true / false | Show/hide zoom-in button |
| zoomout | true / false | Show/hide zoom-out button |
| autofit | true / false | Show/hide autofit button |
| theme | true / false | Show/hide theme button |
| player | true / false / number | Show/hide player button, also set delay between each tick |
| autoplay | true / false | Autoplay when opening gallery (also requires the option player to be set) |
| progress | true / false | Show/hide autoplay progress bar |
| infinite | true / false | Restart from beginning when no slides left |
| theme | "white" "dark" |
Change the default theme |
| page | true / false | Show/hide page |
| title | string / false | Set image title or hide it Note: When using image elements, this attribute will also inherit automatically from <img alt="...">. To prevent this behavior you can set data-title="false". This will hide the title regardless of any image alt-attributes. |
| description | string / false | Set image description or hide it |
| preloader | true / false | Enable/disable preloading of the current image (also hides spinner) |
| prefetch | true / false | Enable/disable preloading of the next image |
<div class="spotlight-group" data-title="Untitled" data-animation="fade"
data-fullscreen="false" data-maximize="false" data-minimize="false">
<a class="spotlight" href="cat1.jpg" data-title="This is a title.">
<img src="cat1-thumb.jpg">
</a>
<a class="spotlight" href="cat2.jpg" data-description="This is a description.">
<img src="cat2-thumb.jpg">
</a>
<a class="spotlight" href="cat3.jpg">
<img src="cat3-thumb.jpg" alt="This is a title.">
</a>
</div>Hint: The 2nd image gets the title "Untitled" from the group attributes.
Control elements could also whitelisted as a comma-separated list, e.g.:
<div class="spotlight-group" data-control="fullscreen,autofit,theme">Use a whitelist to enable controls gets priority over other ambiguous options.
The same from above as explicitly:
<div class="spotlight-group" data-fullscreen="true" data-contrast="true"
data-zoomin="false" data-zoomout="false" data-autofit="true">When control attributes are not specified they are automatically enabled by default.
Therefore the example above could be shortened to:
<div class="spotlight-group" data-zoomin="false" data-zoomout="false">Since "zoom" is a shorthand for both zoom buttons, this is the same:
<div class="spotlight-group" data-zoom="false">Also you can programmatically use Spotlight via the library API. This way does not require any dependant HTML elements (e.g. the classname "spotlight").
Define a gallery group as follows:
var gallery = [{
title: "Image 1",
description: "This is a description.",
src: "gallery/london-1758181.jpg"
},{
title: "Image 2",
description: "This is a description.",
src: "gallery/sea-1975403.jpg"
},{
title: "Image 3",
description: "This is a description.",
src: "gallery/newport-beach-2089906.jpg"
}];Show gallery with default options:
Spotlight.show(gallery);Show gallery with custom options:
Spotlight.show(gallery, {
index: 2,
theme: "white",
autohide: false,
control: ["autofit", "zoom"]
});Close gallery:
Spotlight.close();Next slide:
Spotlight.next();Previous slide:
Spotlight.prev();Goto slide:
Spotlight.goto(3);Zoom to:
Spotlight.zoom(1.5);Toggle theme:
Spotlight.theme();Set theme:
Spotlight.theme("white");Spotlight.theme("dark");Toggle fullscreen:
Spotlight.fullscreen();Set fullscreen:
Spotlight.fullscreen(true);Spotlight.fullscreen(false);Toggle autofit:
Spotlight.autofit();Set autofit:
Spotlight.autofit(true);Spotlight.autofit(false);Toggle menu:
Spotlight.menu();Set menu:
Spotlight.menu(true);Spotlight.menu(false);Example ES6:
import Spotlight from "./spotlight.js";
Spotlight.show(
[ /* Gallery */ ],
{ /* Options */ }
);Note: You may need to perform
npm run buildinitially to make pre-compiled files available.
To add custom styling just override CSS classes accordingly:
#spotlight {
/* font styles, background */
}#spotlight .title{
/* image title */
}#spotlight .description{
/* image description */
}#spotlight .page{
/* current page */
}#spotlight .fullscreen{
/* button fullscreen */
}#spotlight .autofit{
/* button autofit */
}#spotlight .zoom-out{
/* button zoom out */
}#spotlight .zoom-in{
/* button zoom in */
}#spotlight .theme{
/* button theme */
}#spotlight .player{
/* button autoplay */
}#spotlight .close{
/* button close */
}#spotlight .arrow-left{
/* button arrow left */
}#spotlight .arrow-right{
/* button arrow right */
}Customize builtin themes
Use the same classes as above:
#spotlight.white .title{
/* image title in white theme */
}#spotlight.dark{
/* main background in dark theme */
}Create New Themes
Define styles, e.g. for the custom theme name "my-theme":
#spotlight.my-theme .title{
/* image title in custom theme */
}
#spotlight.my-theme{
/* main background in custom theme */
}Apply custom theme via markdown:
<a class="spotlight" href="img.jpg" data-theme="my-theme">
<img src="thumb.jpg">
</a>Or apply custom theme via API:
Spotlight.show([ /* Gallery */ ],{
theme: "my-theme"
});When you pass a custom animation, all other ambiguous animation settings will be overridden (also when mixed with built-ins).
The style class for a custom animation describes the hidden state of an image.
You can define your own custom animation by:
1. Extending the default styles (when image is shown) and corresponding transitions as follows:
#spotlight .scene img{
filter: grayscale(0);
transition: filter 1s ease-out,
opacity 0.5s ease-out;
}2. Providing styles for the hidden state of the transition by adding a custom animation name as a class:
#spotlight .scene img.my-animation{
opacity: 0 !important;
filter: grayscale(1);
}Apply custom animation via markdown:
<a class="spotlight" href="img.jpg" data-animation="my-animation">
<img src="thumb.jpg">
</a>Or apply custom animation via API:
Spotlight.show([ /* Gallery */ ],{
animation: "my-animation"
});If you like to override css classes for custom styling you may need to add !important flag to the css property value.
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
<link rel="preload" href="spotlight.bundle.js" as="script">
</head>
<body>
<!--
CONTENT
-->
<script src="spotlight.bundle.js" async></script>
</body>
</html>Initialize library manually (once):
Spotlight.init();When using Spotlight exclusively through the API it is recommended to follow this practice. But there are some important facts you might need to know:
- When loading the library before loading other stylesheets (which modifies the Spotlight default theme) you do not have to add a "!important" flag to the styles.
- When using Spotlight with anchors it is recommended to load the library in the head section of the document to prevent executing the default anchor behavior when the user has clicked during page load.
- In rare situations it also might produce a short flashing/reflow after page load, depending on your stack. Moving the script tag into the head section will solve this issue.
Note: You can modify all source files e.g. stylesheets, template and also the icon files located in /src/img/. Providing a more handy way to pass custom icons is coming soon.
Perform a full build:
npm run buildThe destination folder of the build is: /dist/
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