Grid Layout with Scrollable Content View

A Masonry-powered grid layout with a motion hover effect on the grid items and a scrollable content view.

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Today we’d like to share a Masonry-powered grid layout with you that has a motion hover effect on the items and a content preview that is scrollable. Once a grid item is clicked, we animate the image to the center of the page and scale it up. The background of the item also scales up, filling the whole page and forming the new background of the content preview. The content preview is scrollable, with some more text showing beneath the image. The animations are powered by TweenMax.

Attention: Note that we use modern CSS properties that might not be supported in older browsers.

The initial view of the layout looks as follows:
GridLayout_01

When clicking on an item, we show the content:
GridLayout_02

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Here’s the whole animation:

GridLayoutScrollable

We hope you enjoy this little layout and find it useful!

References and Credits

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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