3D Gallery with CSS3 and jQuery

Today, we want to share an experimental 3D gallery with you that uses CSS 3D transforms.

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With 3D transforms, we can make simple elements more interesting by setting them into three dimensional space. Together with CSS transitions, these elements can be moved in 3D space and create a realistic effect. Today, we want to share an experimental 3D gallery with you that uses CSS 3D transforms.

The main idea is to create a circular gallery where we have an image in the center and two on the sides. Since we are using perspective, the two lateral images will appear three dimensional when we rotate them.

Please note that this will only work in browsers that support CSS 3D transforms.

How it works

The following HTML structure is used for the gallery:

<section id="dg-container" class="dg-container">
	<div class="dg-wrapper">
		<a href="#">
			<img src="images/1.jpg" alt="image01">
			<div>http://www.colazionedamichy.it/</div>
		</a>
		<a href="#">
			<!-- ... -->
		</a>
		<!-- ... -->
	</div>
	<nav>	
		<span class="dg-prev"><</span>
		<span class="dg-next">></span>
	</nav>
</section>

And this is how the gallery is initialized:

$('#dg-container').gallery();

Options

The following options are available:

current		: 0,	
// index of current item

autoplay	: false,
// slideshow on / off

interval	: 2000  
// time between transitions

I hope you enjoy it!

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Manoela Ilic

Manoela is the main tinkerer at Codrops. With a background in coding and passion for all things design, she creates web experiments and keeps frontend professionals informed about the latest trends.

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  3. Really nice effect when viewed in a WebKit browser, has some issues with scrollbars appearing when viewed in the latest FireFox (v10).

    Iron out these FF bugs and it’s a winner!

  4. Nice gallery, quite inspiring for a new projekt.
    But It ís´n working good in in FF 10, the images flicker on action or aren´t displayed at all.
    Works fine in Chrome and Safari.

  8. I live this site so much. I can’t wait to see their next post. The work done is brilliant. keep it up

  12. does not work correctly in Opera (last version). After the first click on the arrows, they stop working. Sorry for my English. Helps Google Translator. )))

  13. Nice effect! Did some browser testing and even IE8 works nicely except for the 3d animation of course, but the main point it’s accesible. Only Opera (11.61) has a strange behavior. I only can click once on a next/previous arrow and after that it blocks… I can’t navigate the slideshow anymore. But hey… it.s an experiment, I know, and it looks awesome in Chrome 🙂

  14. It seems that jquery.gallery.js couldn’t added ‘z-index: 999’.
    I try to fix js, then I did it.
    It works good at Firefox(v10)

    # I changed this part…
    jquery.gallery.js line: 154 ~ 158
    —
    this.$currentItm.css({
    ‘z-index’ : 999,
    ‘opacity’ : 1,
    ‘visibility’: ‘visible’
    }).addClass(‘dg-center’);
    —

  15. Thanks for this beautiful sharing and a big red card for the browsers that doesn’t support CSS 3D transformations

  16. Amazing, this is a great example of what can be achieved with CSS.

    Only 2-3 more years till it will be usable…

  22. Upfff ……………………. I don’t like it. I love it……………….great looking for this type of articles.

  25. Laggy in Firefox 10.0. When the page loads the left and right images are on top of the center image. Sometimes the left image disappears. Works great in Chrome.

  26. On Opera it works just for one slide and then it’s not working, also laggy. “Invalid value for property: zoom”

  30. Amazing.
    I noticed your email envelope icon link is broken.

    I wanted to thank you for your tutorials. I merged your tutorial with Fotobook plugin for WordPress and I made a nice looking plugin.
    I gave you credit of course.
    http://socialblogsitewebdesign.com/wordpress_plugins/darkroom-facebook-photo-gallery

    A quick question: Is it normal for jQuery to quit on a few tens of webkit rotations?
    The above script randomly fails to rotate all the pictures (added my -1 index for the inner-shadow to render on top of the images makes the non-rotated images to dissapear)
    I found out the script is susceptible to any JS error. Even the layer.eventX deprecated (jQuery?) warning prevents the foreach script to finish rotating the images.
    I’d appreciate you take a look at the code.

    Do you have a effective way to make a mouseleave to “wait” a few seconds based on two readings of the mouse proximity to the element?
    I’ve been trying to make the mouseentered image to “figure out” whether the pointer is approaching or not so it can wait in the hovered state a second, to prevent the rotating image moving away the pointer stuttering the mounseenter-leave-enter effect, without affecting the quick hover-out reaction if the pointer is just passing-by.

  33. nice…is there any way to stop it from changing the weight and opacity of all the fonts on the rest of my page?

  34. Hey great 3d effect. I always check this site and always find something that is pleasing to my eyes. i have seen some effects like this but that was 3D accordion. This is the first time i have come across gallery. Really nice, small and sweet tutorial as well.

  38. Hi Pedro

    Nice post, I haven’t experimented with css transitions yet but it is defiantly something I am looking to incorporate in future design work. I have used a similar effect recently but the jquery roundabout plugin I opted for caused numerous conflict issues in other areas of the site. Time for a change I think.

  39. This is far from being great. It does not work in neither Firefox nor Opera. It degrades gracefully (no 3D effect) in IE, though. Until it does not work in common browsers, it’s useless for real websites. Do not build a Webkit-only Web! Just DON’T!

  41. Awesome job! Worked GREAT, but with a little lag in Chrome. In Firefox, was VERY buggy. Haven’t checked MSIE.

  42. Have a problem when I add this, in IE9,8,7 it only shows one (main) image, and the nav icons move to the left? Anyone know how to fix that?

    • Hmm.. I noticed that the demo site works fine with IE9, BUT when I download the source files, I only get one image (not three). Have you found a fix? View my dev site: bocagrandeffa.org in IE and in Chrome or Firefox and you will see that it only fails in IE. I saw the reply that said: CSS 3D Transform Controls don’t work in IE yet, however if you view the demo site (http://tympanus.net/Development/3DGallery/) it works fine. I am trying to find the diff. :-/

      Any ideas?

  43. Like the effect and how it works, but it killed my FF all 3 times I tested it, there’s something you must fix there

  44. Hi!
    How can I modify it to, when you click on the picture, it will slide to front?
    I hope someone can come up with a solution for that.
    It is almost perfect I like the angle the side pictures are but when you click on the pictures it doesn’t slide to front which is bad.
    It would be perfect if it does that.

  47. Hope this helps someone.
    The left and right images will occasionally flicker in FF 10. I narrowed this down to the styling of the text below each image. For whatever reason, FF doesn’t like the switch from no display to block display. By adding a base style using block display but making it hidden and modifying the original style, I was able to eliminate the flicker:

    .dg-wrapper a div {
    display: block;
    visibility: hidden;
    }
    .dg-wrapper a.dg-center div {
    visibility: visible;
    }

  50. It works fine in mozilla but not in chrome…few days back in chrome it works nice but today its not..:(( help