10 Pure CSS3 Image Galleries and Sliders

by CSS, Web Design

There are hundreds upon hundreds of Javscript based image gallery/slider plugins and techniques you could choose from, all offering something different, all of them offer a whole lot of interactivity and most are relatively easy to use and install. So, the question is, why would you even consider a pure CSS alternative?

Because CSS3 is AWESOME. Its moving at an amazing rate of knots, with new techniques and fresh ideas being published almost every day, pushing its own boundaries ever further, lessening our reliance on Javscript.

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Sliding CSS3 Transition Image Gallery

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CSS Transitions – Throwing Polaroids at a Table

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Image Slider With Pure CSS3

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Image sliders are a popular effect and often used in portfolio sites and blogs, with the most of these sliders being built with Javascript. But with CSS3's strength, you can implement an image slider with only pure CSS3, this article will show you how.
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  • http://thehowtofreelancer.com Matt Pritchett

    Excellent list! I am personally looking forward to the implementation of pure CSS galleries and sliders in the future, and the removal of things such as flash and AJAX, although I don’t think either is going anywhere anytime soon…

    • WelginDomin

      Yeh!!, codes in CSS are easy to learn than AJAZ, JQUERY..etc..

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  • http://www.dezinebuzz.com/ Saroj

    CSS3! Amazing galleries

  • Lidia

    thank you so much for this list…. i will be happy to implement these solutions for my clients and show how to keep it simple!

  • http://blurkness.com/ blurkness

    Missing one…

    http://developer.apple.com/safaridemos/gallery.php

    ;)

    nice post! thx!

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  • http://www.socialh.com socialh

    Nice collection of css galleries, thanks

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  • http://www.wowitsalightbulb.com Alan

    Fantastic collection of css3 galleries. I especially like the Polaroid style presentation gallery.

  • http://www.instantfundas.com Kaushik

    Is it possible to have a sliding gallery in only CSS3?

  • http://www.lv6a.com replica

    Good

  • http://www.admixweb.com Teylor Feliz

    Good list!

    Thank you for sharing.

  • http://www.multyshades.com Multyshades

    good collection of css3 galleries, a little problem i m facing here that the first link doesn’t work properly, i am sorry i really dont know where the problem is exactly…

  • http://claudia-liersch.de Claudia Liersch

    Great Collection!

  • http://tobypitman.com Toby

    Thanks for the include!!! :)

    Unfortunately there’s one incredibly massive drawback I discovered while building my gallery using just CSS3 and that’s the :target selector.

    If your gallery has any content below it that triggers a scrollbar the page will jump, lining the targeted element (image) with the top of the page. Such is the nature of the :target behavior. :(

    There’s no fix for this in a CSS only environment. Unfortunately this also applies to Menus and Accordians made with CSS3 that use the :target behaviour to trigger CSS animations and transitions. Looks like JS is still the winner when it comes to selecting elements.

    I was gutted when I found out, it would have all been so easy!!!

    :)

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    Thanks for the round up, all these could make a great addition to any graphically centric blog.

  • http://www.vectelligence.com Ilie Ciorba

    Looks like css3 is already pushing out flash in this sphere.

  • http://evajansen.com Eva

    Perfect, thanks for these!

  • http://www.strafecreative.co.uk Web Design Nottingham

    Some of these CSS3 galleries are absolutely stunning, I particularly like the dynamic polaroid creator! Great work all and great post.

  • http://www.fethiyetatilkoyleri.com Fethiye tatil köyleri

    Is it possible to have a sliding gallery in only CSS3?

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  • http://www.argeseajans.com Matbaa

    Excellent share, thanks

  • http://2experts.net 2experts

    Bookmarked.
    Why haven’t I found this earlier?!

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  • Cijo Cyril

    Freak collection

  • http://www.designthirtytwo.com Adeniyi Makinde

    Great list/

  • http://www.brafolk.no Mathias

    Nice you should add this one to: http://www.csslider.com

  • http://twitter.com/rpsx2 PS

    is there anything out there anyone makes that is simple? i mean really simple? i just want a simple fading image slideshow. nothing more! it seems like every CSS “tutorial” is more to try to impress one’s peers with how overly fancy one can get, in terms of design and code. 

    are there any tutorials just for something very very very simple!? like 1 image, that fades into another, and then another and… repeats. no more! no boarders, no rollovers, no thumbnails with 2 layers of edges and a drop shadow. 

    • MentalWard

      just create an animated gif and drop it in a div.

  • Gościu

    nice:)

  • http://mechanism.name/ Eugene MechanisM
  • Jake_CSS

    i just made a new one :) have a look see :) free to download and use/customize as you like :)
    http://jakecss.co.cc/articles/slider/slider.html

  • Tiborbacus

    It is good for students trying hard to learn CSS. Very useful instead of Javascript and Jquery.

  • Gautham NS

    thanks a lot
    my web page would have been nothing if it wasn’t for you…………