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smooth images zoom effect with jQuery

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imgZoom is a jQuery plugin that implements a smooth zoom effect on images. It uses vector graphics  to create a graceful transition between the thumbnail and the full-sized image.

Plugin features:

  • Lightbox-like interface (dark overlay, previous/next image switching)
  • Highly customizable (CSS styling, custom HTML wrapper block)
  • Images can be zoomed in with a fade-in effect or with rotation
  • Provides API functions to zoom in and zoom out
  • Lightweight — the packed version is less than 7KB

The plugin works in all major browsers, including Firefox 2+, Opera 9.5+, Google Chrome, Safari 3+, and Internet Explorer 6+.

Download the plugin, unzip it, and copy the JavaScript and CSS files to your website/application directory. Load the files in the <head> section of your HTML document. Make sure you also load the jQuery library (included with the plugin).

<head> ...
 <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/imgzoom.css" />
 <script type="text/javascript" src="scripts/jquery.min.js"></script> 
<script type="text/javascript" src="scripts/jquery.imgzoom.pack.js"></script>
 ... </head>

Let's say you have a page with a number of thumbnail images, each being a link to a larger version of the picture, and each having a "thumbnail" class:

... <a href="puppy.jpg"><img class="thumbnail" src="puppy_small.jpg" alt="Puppy" /></a> 
<a href="kitten.jpg"><img class="thumbnail" src="kitten_small.jpg" alt="Kitten" /></a> ...

To make these images zoomable, select them with a jQuery selector and call the imgZoom() method:

<script type="text/javascript"> 
$(document).ready(function () { 
$('img.thumbnail').imgZoom();
 }); 
</script>

That's it — enjoy!

The article source:http://odyniec.net/projects/imgzoom/

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