lightGallery: Docs

LightGallery is a lightweight modular responsive jquery lightbox gallery wich lets you to create beautiful image & video galleries.

Main features

Fully responsive.
Modular architecture with inbuilt plugins.
Touch and support for mobile devices.
Mouse drag supports for desktops.
Animated thumbnails.
Youtube Vimeo and html5 videos Support.
20+ Hardware-Accelerated CSS3 transitions.
Dynamic mode.
Full screen support.
Supports zoom.
Responsive images.
HTML iframe support.
Multiple instances on one page.
Easily customizable via CSS (SCSS) and Settings.
Smart image preloading and code optimization.
Keyboard Navigation for desktop.
Font icon support.

Installation

Install with Bower

You can Install lightgallery using the Bower package manager.

$ bower install lightgallery

Install with npm

You can also find lightgallery on npm.

$ npm install lightgallery

Download from Github

You can also directly download lightgallery from github.

include CSS and Javascript files

First of all add lightgallery.css in the <head> of the document

<head>
    <link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="css/lightGallery.css" /> 
</head>

Then include jQuery and lightgallery.min.js into your document.
If you want to include any lightgallery plugin you can include it after lightgallery.min.js.

<body>
    ....

    <!-- jQuery version must be >= 1.8.0; -->
    <script src="jquery.min.js"></script>
    <script src="js/lightgallery.min.js"></script>

    <!-- lightgallery plugins -->
    <script src="js/lg-thumbnail.min.js"></script>
    <script src="js/lg-fullscreen.min.js"></script>
</body>

lightgallery does not force you to use any kind of markup. you can use whatever markup you want. But i suggest you to use the following markup. Here you can find the detailed examples of deferent kind of markups.

<div id="lightgallery">
  <a href="img/img1.jpg">
      <img src="img/thumb1.jpg" />
  </a>
  <a href="img/img2.jpg">
      <img src="img/thumb2.jpg" />
  </a>
  ...
</div>

Call the plugin

Finally you need to initiate the gallery by adding the following code.

<script type="text/javascript">
    $(document).ready(function() {
        $("#lightgallery").lightGallery(); 
    });
</script>

Getting Started