Ngx-Lightbox

A lightbox2 implementation port to use with new Angular without the need for jQuery

Version

• For Angular 5, 6, 7, please use ngx-lightbox 1.x.x. npm install [email protected]
• For Angular >= 8, please use ngx-lightbox 2.x.x. npm install [email protected]
• For Angular 2, 4, please use angular2-lightbox

Demo

Installation

npm install --save ngx-lightbox

Update your angular.json

{
  "styles": [
    "./node_modules/ngx-lightbox/lightbox.css",
    ...
  ],
}

Usage

Module:

Import LightboxModule from ngx-lightbox

import { LightboxModule } from 'ngx-lightbox';

@NgModule({
  imports: [ LightboxModule ]
})

Component

1. Markup

<div *ngFor="let image of _albums; let i=index">
  <img [src]="image.thumb" (click)="open(i)" />
</div>

2. Component method

import { Lightbox } from 'ngx-lightbox';

export class AppComponent {
  private _album: Array = [];
  constructor(private _lightbox: Lightbox) {
    for (let i = 1; i <= 4; i++) {
      const src = 'demo/img/image' + i + '.jpg';
      const caption = 'Image ' + i + ' caption here';
      const thumb = 'demo/img/image' + i + '-thumb.jpg';
      const album = {
         src: src,
         caption: caption,
         thumb: thumb
      };

      this._albums.push(album);
    }
  }

  open(index: number): void {
    // open lightbox
    this._lightbox.open(this._albums, index);
  }

  close(): void {
    // close lightbox programmatically
    this._lightbox.close();
  }
}

Each object of album array inside your component may contains 3 properties :

| Properties | Requirement | Description | | ---------- | ----------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | src | Required | The source image to your thumbnail that you want to with use lightbox when user click on thumbnail image | | caption | Optional | Your caption corresponding with your image | | thumb | Optional | Source of your thumbnail. It is being used inside your component markup so this properties depends on your naming. |

3. Listen to lightbox event

You can listen to 3 events, which are either CHANGE_PAGE, CLOSE or OPEN.

import { LightboxEvent, LIGHTBOX_EVENT } from 'ngx-lightbox';
import { Subscription } from 'rxjs';

export class AppComponent {
  private _subscription: Subscription;
  constructor(private _lightboxEvent: LightboxEvent) {}
  open(index: number): void {
    // register your subscription and callback whe open lightbox is fired
    this._subscription = this._lightboxEvent.lightboxEvent$
      .subscribe(event => this._onReceivedEvent(event));
  }

  private _onReceivedEvent(event: any): void {
    // remember to unsubscribe the event when lightbox is closed
    if (event.id === LIGHTBOX_EVENT.CLOSE) {
      // event CLOSED is fired
      this._subscription.unsubscribe();
    }

    if (event.id === LIGHTBOX_EVENT.OPEN) {
      // event OPEN is fired
    }

    if (event.id === LIGHTBOX_EVENT.CHANGE_PAGE) {
      // event change page is fired
      console.log(event.data); // -> image index that lightbox is switched to
    }
  }
}

Lightbox options

Available options based on lightbox2 options

| Properties | Default | Description | | --------------------------- | ---------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | fadeDuration | 0.7 seconds | duration starting when the src image is loaded to fully appear onto screen. | | resizeDuration | 0.5 seconds | duration starting when Lightbox container change its dimension from a default/previous image to the current image when the current image is loaded. | | fitImageInViewPort | true | Determine whether lightbox will use the natural image width/height or change the image width/height to fit the view of current window. Change this option to true to prevent problem when image too big compare to browser windows. | | positionFromTop | 20 px | The position of lightbox from the top of window browser | | showImageNumberLabel | false | Determine whether to show the image number to user. The default text shown is Image IMAGE_NUMBER of ALBUM_LENGTH | | alwaysShowNavOnTouchDevices | false | Determine whether to show left/right arrow to user on Touch devices. | | wrapAround | false | Determine whether to move to the start of the album when user reaches the end of album and vice versa. Set it to true to enable this feature. | | disableKeyboardNav | false | Determine whether to disable navigation using keyboard event. | | disableScrolling | false | If true, prevent the page from scrolling while Lightbox is open. This works by settings overflow hidden on the body. | | centerVertically | false | If true, images will be centered vertically to the screen. | | albumLabel | "Image %1 of %2" | The text displayed below the caption when viewing an image set. The default text shows the current image number and the total number of images in the set. | | enableTransition | true | Transition animation between images will be disabled if this flag set to false | | showZoom | false | Zoom Buttons will be shown if this flag set to true | | showRotate | false | Rotate Buttons will be shown if this flag set to true | | showDownloadButton | false | Download button will be shown if this flag set to true | | containerElementResolver | () => document.body | Resolves the element that will contain the lightbox |

NOTE: You can either override default config or during a specific opening window

1. Override default config

import { LightboxConfig } from 'ngx-lightbox';

export class AppComponent {
  constructor(private _lightboxConfig: LightboxConfig) {
    // override default config
    _lightboxConfig.fadeDuration = 1;
  }
}

2. Set config in a specific opening window

import { LightboxConfig, Lightbox } from 'ngx-lightbox';

export class AppComponent {
  constructor(private _lightboxConfig: LightboxConfig, private _lightbox: Lightbox) {}
  open(index: number) {
    // override the default config on second parameter
    this._lightbox.open(this._albums, index, { wrapAround: true, showImageNumberLabel: true });
  }
}

Overriding lightbox parent elements

If you want to use any other parent element than your <body>, please override the containerElementResolver property of your LightboxConfig. This can be used, e.g. if you are opening the lightbox from within a Shadow DOM based web component.

export class MyLightBoxTrigger {
  constructor(
    private _lightbox: Lightbox,
    private _lighboxConfig: LightboxConfig,
  ) {
    _lighboxConfig.containerElementResolver = (doc: Document) => doc.getElementById('my-lightbox-host');
  }

  open(index: number): void {
    this._lightbox.open(this.images, index); // will put the lightbox child into e.g. <div id="my-lightbox-host"></div>
  }

Angular Universal

This project works with universal out of the box with no additional configuration.

License

MIT

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