##Chocolat

Chocolat is a responsive jQuery lightbox plugin What you are looking for is in the /dist/ folder.

Dependencies

It expects jQuery to work (either 1.x or 2.x): https://github.com/jquery/jquery

Compatibility

recent browsers such as : IE 7+, Safari, Firefox & Chrome.

##Markup

<div id="example1" data-chocolat-title="Set title">
    <a class="chocolat-image" href="img/a.jpg" title="image caption a">
        A <!-- you can display a thumbnail here : <img src="thumb/a.jpg" /> -->
    </a>
    <a class="chocolat-image" href="img/b.jpg" title="image caption b">
        B <!-- you can display a thumbnail here : <img src="thumb/b.jpg" /> -->
    </a>
</div>

$(document).ready(function(){
    $('#example1').Chocolat();
});

##Documentation

Parameters

container : default:window Sets whether viewer will open and fill the whole page (default) , or whether it should open in a particular block of the page. For example #container2 in this case the height and width of the block must be defined. values can be : window, selector, jQuery element, or a node

imageSelector : default : '.chocolat-image' Selector to find images in the parent element (on which chocolat is called)

linkImages : default : true Sets whether we can switch from one image to another, within the same call, without closing the viewer (true) , or if the images remain independent (false). Warning: if LinkImage: is false then displayAsALink must be worth false too. Otherwise we can only view the first image in the set.

setTitle : default : '' Title of the set. Can also be defined from the html, with the data-chocolat-title attribute

className : default : '' Add a custom css class to the parent of the lightbox

imageSize : default : 'default' Can be 'default', 'contain', 'native', or 'cover'. default : if the image is bigger than the window it's resized to fit, else if the image is smaller than the window it's not streched, only displayed at native dimensions 'contain' : if the image is bigger than the window it's resized to fit, else if the image is smaller than the window it's streched, to fit the window 'cover' : the image cover the window, no white space are displayed. more informations & exemple about contain/cover : https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/CSS/Scaling_background_images 'native' : the image is never streched nor shrinked, always displayed at native dimensions

fullScreen : default : false HTML5 new feature. Hides the browser.

loop : default : false Last image + 1 leads to first image & first image - 1 leads to last image.

duration : default : 300 Animations duration

firstImage : default : 0 Index of the image that you want to start the series.

lastImage : default : 0 Index of the image that you want to end the series.

separator2 : default : '/' Text between the number of the image and the number of images in the set, does not matter.

images : default : [] Array of object representing the set images [{src:'img1.jpg'}, {src:'img1.jpg'}, ...] You can also specify image title [{src:'img1.jpg', title: 'title'}, ..]

setIndex : default : 0 Set index. yes.

API

Syntax

Call chocolat like this :

$(document).ready(function(){
    var instance = $('#example1').Chocolat().data('chocolat');
});

Then API calls can be made like this (open for exemple):

instance.api().open();

Methods

open : param (optionnal) : i Open the lightbox on the image whose index is i. By default on the first image (i=0). Returns a $.Deferred object.

close : Close the lightbox. Returns a $.Deferred object.

prev : Change image backward. Returns a $.Deferred object.

next : Change image forward. Returns a $.Deferred object.

goto : param : i (Alias of open) go to image whose index is i on an already opened ligthbox. Returns a $.Deferred object.

place : Center the image in its parent. Returns a $.Deferred object.

destroy : Destroy the current instance. Remove elements, unbind events, clear data.

set : params : property, value Classic setter

get : param : property Classic getter

getElem : param : name Returns a jQuery object composing the lightbox. Ex: for the next arrow : instance.api().getElem('right')

current : Returns the index of the current image.

CSS Classes

.chocolat-open : Set to the container when the lightbox is open.

.chocolat-in-container : Set to the container when chocolat is open in a block (container != window)

.chocolat-cover : Set to the container when chocolat imageSize is set to 'cover'

.chocolat-zoomable : Set to the container when chocolat is zoomable

.chocolat-zoomed : Set to the container when chocolat is zoomed

##Contributing

Feel free to contribute by forking then making a pull request. Edit files in the /src/ folder, run gulp to copy/minify into the /dist/ folder and to watch for changes.

##Testing To test, run gulp test, if you don't have all packages installed then run npm install Tests are written in test/src/test.chocolat.coffee

##Angular (ng-chocolat) An angular directive of Chocolat.js exists thanks to @beuted: https://github.com/beuted/ng-chocolat