Lightweight Grid View With Expanding Preview - Inline Popup

Inline Popup is a jQuery plugin for creating a responsive grid view that allows to displays more details in a popup-style expanding panel similar to the effect seen on Google Images.

How to use it:

1. Load both jQuery library and the jQuery inline popup plugin's script when needed.

<script src="//code.jquery.com/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="jquery-inline-popup.min.js"></script>

2. Add custom content to the grid view following the markup structure like this:

<div id="ip-container">
  <div class="article">
    <h2>Grid 1</h2>
    <p>Description 1 [...]</p>
    <div class="ip-details">
      <p>More Detais</p>
    </div>
  </div>
  <div class="article">
    <h2>Grid 2</h2>
    <p>Description 2 [...]</p>
    <div class="ip-details">
      <p>More Detais</p>
    </div>
  </div>
  <div class="article">
    <h2>Grid 3</h2>
    <p>Description 3 [...]</p>
    <div class="ip-details">
      <p>More Detais</p>
    </div>
  </div>
  ...
</div>

3. The main CSS styles for the grid view.

#ip-container { position: relative; }

.article {
  border: 1px solid #c2c2c2;
  color: #585858;
  width: 270px;
  height: 270px;
  float: left;
  background: #fff;
  margin-bottom: 15px;
  margin-right: 15px;
  padding: 15px;
  cursor: pointer;
}

.article > h2 {
  margin: 0 0 10px;
  font: 100 24px/125% "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif;
  color: #337ab7;
}

.article span {
  display: block;
  padding-bottom: 5px;
}

.article strong { color: #d7342f; }

4. Style the expanding preview with the following CSS snippets.

.ip-details { display: none; }

.inlinepopup {
  background: #fff none repeat scroll 0 0;
  border: 1px solid #c2c2c2;
  float: left;
  width: 100%;
  margin-bottom: 15px;
  position: relative;
}

.inlinepopup_content {
  border-top: 5px solid #cc0a0a;
  box-shadow: 0 3px 7px 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5);
  padding: 20px;
  color: #585858;
}

.inlinepopup_arrow {
  background: url("images/arrow-top.png") no-repeat scroll center 0;
  height: 32px;
  position: absolute;
  top: -30px;
  width: 32px;
}

.inlinepopupClose {
  background: url("images/close.png") no-repeat scroll 0 0;
  cursor: pointer;
  height: 16px;
  position: absolute;
  right: 5px;
  text-indent: -9999px;
  top: 10px;
  width: 16px;
  z-index: 99;
  overflow: hidden;
  transition: all 0.5s ease 0s;
}

.inlinepopupClose:hover { transform: rotate(180deg); }

.inlinepopup_content h2 {
  color: #585858;
  font: 100 26px/140% "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif;
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0 0 10px;
}

.inlinepopup_content ul, .inlinepopup_content ol {
  margin: 0 0 20px;
  padding: 0 0 0 20px;
}

.inlinepopup_content .img-middle img { margin: 5px auto; }

.inlinepopup_content a.go-button {
  background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) url("images/arrow-right.png") no-repeat scroll right center / 18% auto;
  color: #585858;
  font: 600 18px/150% "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif;
  padding: 5px 30px 5px 0;
}

5. Initialize the plugin with some options.

$("#ip-container").inlinePopup({
  itemSelector : ".article",
  closeinnerelem:"X"
})

6. All default options.

$("#ip-container").inlinePopup({

  // CSS selector of grid item
  "itemSelector"          : "",

  // default CSS classes
  "ipclass"               : "inlinepopup",
  "ipcloseclass"          : "inlinepopupClose",
  "iparrowclass"          : "inlinepopup_arrow",
  "ipcontentwrapperclass" : "inlinepopup_content",
  "detailsElem"           : "ip-details",

  // active the first item on page load
  "activeFirst"           : true,

  // auto scroll the page to the active item
  "scrollToViewPort"      : true,

  // shows indicator arrow
  "arrow"                 : true,

  // scroll offset in pixels
  "scrollOffset"          : 0,

  // custom close icon
  "closeinnerelem"         : "<i class='fa fa-close'></i>" 
  
})

Changelog:

2024-05-02

• update for jQuery 3.7+

2018-07-31

• device orientation & row count break issue fixes

2016-12-29

• bugs fixed.

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This awesome jQuery plugin is developed by Position2. For more Advanced Usages, please check the demo page or visit the official website.