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Live Thumbnails

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This is the JavaScript example from the Webmonkey tutorial Make Images Grow and Shrink With JavaScript. This script will allow you to put "live thumbnails" of images on your website. The thumbnails will grow and shrink when users click on them. 


<script type="text/javascript">

var links = document.getElementsByTagName('a');

for (var i = 0; i < links.length; i++)
	if (links[i].className == 'livethumbnail')
	{
		var img = links[i].getElementsByTagName('img')[0];		
		img.state = 'small';
		img.smallSrc = img.getAttribute('src');
		img.smallWidth = parseInt(img.getAttribute('width'));
		img.smallHeight = parseInt(img.getAttribute('height'));
		img.largeSrc = links[i].getAttribute('href');
		img.largeWidth = parseInt(img.getAttribute('largewidth'));
		img.largeHeight = parseInt(img.getAttribute('largeheight'));
		img.ratio = img.smallHeight / img.smallWidth;
		links[i].onclick = scale;
	}
	
function scale()
{
	var img = this.getElementsByTagName('img')[0];		
	img.src = img.smallSrc;
	
	if (! img.preloaded)
	{
		img.preloaded = new Image();
		img.preloaded.src = img.largeSrc;
	}

	var interval = window.setInterval(scaleStep, 10);
	return false;
	
	function scaleStep()
	{
		var step = 10;
		var width = parseInt(img.getAttribute('width'));
		var height = parseInt(img.getAttribute('height'));
		
		if (img.state == 'small')
		{
			width += step;
			height += Math.floor(step * img.ratio);
			
			img.setAttribute('width', width);
			img.setAttribute('height', height);
			
			if (width > img.largeWidth - step)
			{
				img.setAttribute('width', img.largeWidth);
				img.setAttribute('height', img.largeHeight);
				img.setAttribute('src', img.largeSrc);
				window.clearInterval(interval);
				img.state = 'large';
			}
		}
		else
		{
			width -= step;
			height -= Math.floor(step * img.ratio);

			img.setAttribute('width', width);
			img.setAttribute('height', height);
			
			if (width < img.smallWidth + step)
			{
				img.setAttribute('width', img.smallWidth);
				img.setAttribute('height', img.smallHeight);
				img.src = img.smallSrc;
				window.clearInterval(interval);
				img.state = 'small';
			}
		}
	}			
}

</script>
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  • This page was last modified 05:28, 15 May 2008.
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