5 JavaScript Zoom Effects

Add interactivity and detail with JavaScript zoom effects. This collection includes smooth hover zooms, pinch-to-zoom support for mobile, all designed to enhance user exploration of images, product views, maps, and more.

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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.

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Image Zoom on Hover (Vanilla JS)

An efficient, Vanilla JavaScript solution for an image zoom effect, dynamically creating a CSS background image lens on mouse entry and calculating background-position and background-size in real-time on mousemove for a smooth, performant magnification.

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Efficient Image Scroll Zoom Effect

A demo of the scroll zoom effect via dynamic element visibility calculation and utilizing the Intersection Observer API for performance enhancement.