44 JavaScript Gallery Examples
Showcase visual content in style with these JavaScript gallery examples. From responsive lightboxes to dynamic filtering and lazy loading, this collection demonstrates how JavaScript brings flexibility, interactivity, and polish to image and media galleries of all kinds.
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Grid Items View with Flip Plugin
An image gallery featuring seamless “hero” transitions powered by GSAP Flip. Clicking an item expands it into a detailed view overlaid on the dimmed grid, smoothly animating position and scale.
Intersection Observer Example
A horizontal scrolling gallery where the background color smoothly transitions to match the current image, triggered by the Intersection Observer API.
Invisible Gallery
An emotionally charged and technically complex component that uses kinetic animations simulating digital glitches or geometric transformations to dramatically reveal hidden content.
Image Carousel
A self-playing image carousel that synchronizes the page’s background with the active slide.
Swiper Center Thumbnail Slider
A dual-slider gallery implemented with Swiper.js, featuring a main view synced with a thumbnail carousel via the controller module.
Responsive Image Grid with Slider and Search
A convenient, fast, and visually pleasing interface for searching and viewing image collections that works seamlessly without page reloads.
Yet Another Slider
A cinematic slider where frame transitions occur via complex vertical sliding of image fragments, accompanied by a smooth custom cursor.
Interactive Card with Floating Lightbox Images
A lively, immersive page where the central element grabs attention with a flip effect, while the background creates a weightless atmosphere with clickable details to explore.
Parallax Carousel with GSAP Observer
Images drift horizontally at varying speeds and sizes, establishing a tangible sense of depth. Upon user interaction, the scroll accelerates or reverses direction with a satisfyingly elastic, spring-like response.
Image Gallery with GSAP Observer Plugin
A seamless image slider featuring an infinite-scroll SVG navigation menu powered by GSAP’s Observer plugin. The interaction logic translates scroll and swipe deltas into timeline progress, utilizing complex snapping algorithms and opacity tweens to create a fluid, kinetic browsing experience that dynamically updates the active index.
Animated Portfolio with SVG ClipPath Hover Effect
This interactive portfolio showcases a masonry-style layout built with two overlapping CSS Grids, where grid-row: span and grid-column: span create the complex pattern. The key interaction is a unique “spotlight” reveal effect on hover, powered by a JavaScript-controlled SVG <clipPath> that dynamically updates the position of a <circle> mask to follow the mouse.
Infinite Scrolling with Image Cards
This infinitely scrolling image grid employs an IntersectionObserver with baton-passing observation to dynamically load content from the Pixabay API, creating cards through DOM manipulation as the user scrolls. JavaScript manages the paginated requests while CSS Grid provides responsive layout adaptation, with custom properties enabling seamless dark/light theme switching and clip-path animations.
Swiper Slider Abstract Art Gallery
A ready-made frontend solution for creating a dynamic art gallery or product catalog, leveraging the advanced Swiper library. The focus is on current technical practices, including keyboard navigation and adaptive spacing changes upon screen resize.
Noisy Image Gallery Navigation with Custom JS
An interactive horizontal gallery featuring non-standard click-based navigation on side images. The main feature is Vanilla JS tracking clicks and mousemove to dynamically calculate and apply CSS transformations for centering the selected element.
Vanilla JS Skew Images on Scroll
A dynamic image skew effect in pure Vanilla JS, where the transformation angle directly depends on the page’s scroll velocity, providing unique and responsive visual feedback.
GSAP Homepage Demo 4
An advanced interactive gallery showcasing the power of GreenSock: it utilizes custom Timelines to manage complex, multi-stage animations and x, y, scale transformations upon clicking the elements.
LUME Shiny 3D Image Grid (Webgl, Three.js)
A high-performance 3D gallery leveraging WebGL for rendering an interactive image grid with a reflective (shader) effect and realistic cursor-driven lighting, implemented atop LUME.
Our Best Friends Gallery Zoom
A demo of smooth “smart” zoom for a gallery, leveraging CSS Properties and Houdini to interpolate custom variables for transformation and accurately calculate the zoom factor.
Full Screen Image Reveal Effect
A high-performance interface that uses TweenMax (part of GSAP) to apply micro-interactions (smooth parallax on titles and images on hover) and create a dramatic “fly-out” effect using Power3.easeIn during the state transition.
Photo Gallery with a Comic Touch
Explore a dual-interaction card where a 3D parallax responds to mouse movement, while a click triggers a “camera flash” and a comic-style text reveal. The hover effect uses throttled JS for performance, and the click animations are powered by GSAP.
Flip Grid Size with GSAP
A demonstration of how GSAP Flip achieves flawless element repositioning: the layout switch is done by simply adding/removing a CSS class, while all complex transition logic (position, size) is delegated to the library.
Full Screen Scroll Slideshow with Sound FX
A demo of a vertical section-snapping gallery with fixed content, utilizing GSAP ScrollTrigger and Lenis for smooth scroll control. The core feature is ClipPath and SplitText-driven background and title transition logic between slides.
Layout Explorations with GSAP, Flip, Lenis and ScrollTrigger N°2
An advanced gallery UX pattern where view switching (List/Grid) uses GSAP Flip for calculating and executing complex transitions, and the hover preview effect is controlled by precise mouse events with debounce logic.
Liquid Gallery with 3D Image Hover
A stunning 3D gallery built with Three.js, where images come to life on hover. This demo showcases a custom GLSL shader for a unique “liquid” animation effect and integrates Fancybox for full-screen viewing.
Orbital Photo Gallery
A stunning JavaScript and CSS 3D gallery with images placed on a sphere. Fluid transitions and inertia create a realistic tactile feel, while click-to-zoom provides an impressive focus on the selected content.
The 7 (+3) Modern Wonders of the World - Slide Gallery
The demo showcases the synergy of pure JS and CSS3 transitions to create a responsive gallery. JavaScript handles the navigation logic and dynamic scroll speed calculation, while smooth element transformations and animations are achieved purely with CSS.
