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Adding Magnific Popup to your Photo Gallery

This tutorial shows you how to add interactivity to your photo galleries with magnific popup.

Graphics have taken on an increasingly central role to online content and the need for interactive and beautifully designed photo galleries has never been more prevalent. In this article we will show you how to add magnific popup by Dmitry Semenov to your photo gallery turning your photos into clickable and expandable elements with further detail.

Below is the HTML, CSS, and JavaScript required.

Step 1 - photos-popup.html

Add the HTML below where you'd like to populate your photo gallery

<div class="container">
  <div class="popup-gallery">
    <div class="row">
      <div class="col-md-4">
        <div class="resources-item">
          <div class="resources-category-image">
            <a href="https://www.solodev.com/assets/magnific-popup/3.jpg" title="Environment"><img class="img-responsive" alt="" src="https://www.solodev.com/assets/magnific-popup/3.jpg"></a>
          </div>
          <div class="resources-description">
            <p>Published: June 24, 2016</p>
            <h4>Environment</h4>
          </div>
        </div>
      </div>
      <div class="col-md-4">
        <div class="resources-item">
          <div class="resources-category-image">
            <a href="https://www.solodev.com/assets/magnific-popup/1.jpg" title="Architecture"><img class="img-responsive" alt="" src="https://www.solodev.com/assets/magnific-popup/1.jpg"></a>
          </div>
          <div class="resources-description">
            <p>Published: July 5, 2016</p>
            <h4>Architecture</h4>
          </div>
        </div>
      </div>
      <div class="col-md-4">
        <div class="resources-item">
          <div class="resources-category-image">
            <a href="https://www.solodev.com/assets/magnific-popup/2.jpg" title="Design"><img class="img-responsive" alt="" src="https://www.solodev.com/assets/magnific-popup/2.jpg"></a>
          </div>
          <div class="resources-description">
            <p>Published: August 1, 2016</p>
            <h4>Design</h4>
          </div>
        </div>
      </div>
    </div>
  </div>
</div>

Step 2 - photos-popup.css

Download the CSS below and include it in your web page

photos-popup.css

Step 3 - photo-popup.js

Add the JavaScript below to a file called photo-popup.js

$(document).ready(function() {
  $('.popup-gallery').magnificPopup({
    delegate: 'a',
    type: 'image',
    tLoading: 'Loading image #%curr%...',
    mainClass: 'mfp-img-mobile',
    gallery: {
      enabled: true,
      navigateByImgClick: true,
      preload: [0,1] // Will preload 0 - before current, and 1 after the current image
    },
    image: {
      tError: '<a href="%url%">The image #%curr%</a> could not be loaded.',
      titleSrc: function(item) {
        return item.el.attr('title') + '<small>by Solodev</small>';
      }
    }
  });
});

Add the includes below to the pages where your photo gallery lives

<link href="photos-popup.css"  rel="stylesheet">
<link href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/jquery.magnific-popup/1.0.0/magnific-popup.css">
<link href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.7/css/bootstrap.min.css">
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.7/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/jquery.magnific-popup/1.0.0/jquery.magnific-popup.js"></script>
<script src="photo-popup.js"></script>

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