jQuery Atteeeeention Plugin

A 'Google Image Search style' image alignment jQuery plugin.

Description

If you have a image gallery with different width and height for each image, your page may look messy. Use this plugin to align your gallery with a 'Google Image Search' style result.

Demo

• Please see demo.html
• Live demo please take a look at this

Documentation

• There is a syntax highlight version, please see this post
• For chinese version please go here

Requires

• jQuery 1.2.6+

Browser Compatibility

• Firefox 2.0+
• Internet Explorer 6+
• Safari 3+
• Opera 10.6+
• Chrome 8+

Installation

• First, make sure you are using valid DOCTYPE
• Include nessesary JS files

  <script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.5.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
  <script type="text/javascript" src="path-to-file/jquery.atteeeeention.js"></script>

• Add these css styles to your stylesheet

.clearfix:after{
  content: ".";
  display: block;
  height: 0;
  clear: both;
  visibility: hidden;
}
.clearfix{
  display: inline-block;
}
* html .clearfix{
  height: 1%;
}
.clearfix{
  display: block;
}

Options

margin

• description: space between images( margin-right and margin-bottom )
• data type: integer
• default value: 12
• possible value: any integer
• example code

$( '#gallery' ).atteeeeention({
  margin: 20
});

hideLastRow

• description: sometimes the last row might not have enough images, if you want your gallery to look prettier you can set this option to true to hide the last row
• data type: bool
• default value: false
• possible value: true, false
• example code

$( '#gallery' ).atteeeeention({
  hideLastRow: true
});

HTML markup

example code

// this is the markup for $( '#gallery' ).atteeeeention();
<div id="gallery">
  <a href="/img/a.jpg">
    <img src="/img/a-thumb.jpg"/>
  </a>
  <a href="/img/a.jpg">
    <img src="/img/a-thumb.jpg"/>
  </a>
  <a href="/img/a.jpg">
    <img src="/img/a-thumb.jpg"/>
  </a>
  ....
</div>

• 'div' can be replaced with 'ul', 'ol' or any other block element.
• 'class' can be used instead of 'id'
• 'a' can be replaced with 'div', 'span', or any other tag

License

The expandable plugin is licensed under the MIT License (LICENSE.txt).

Copyright (c) 2011 Ben Lin