React Grid Gallery

Justified image gallery component for React inspired by Google Photos.

The react-grid-gallery library is no longer maintained

After more than 10 years I've decided it's time to officially end support of the library, today, the 28th of August 2025. As I haven't used it in any project since 2015, the development and maintainence was solely for the benefit of FOSS and my goodwill towards those using this library in their own projects.

See https://github.com/benhowell/react-grid-gallery/issues/375#issuecomment-3231131756 for further details.

Feel free to continue to use, fork, fork and maintain, submit PR's, whatever. Thanks and goodbye!

:tada: v1.0.0 is out!

There are breaking changes with v0.5.x, check out the migration guide to learn more. Documentation for v0.5.x is here.

Live Demo & Examples

https://benhowell.github.io/react-grid-gallery/

Installation

Using npm:

shell
npm install --save react-grid-gallery

Quick Start

jsx
import { Gallery } from "react-grid-gallery";

const images = [
   {
      src: "https://c2.staticflickr.com/9/8817/28973449265_07e3aa5d2e_b.jpg",
      width: 320,
      height: 174,
      isSelected: true,
      caption: "After Rain (Jeshu John - designerspics.com)",
   },
   {
      src: "https://c2.staticflickr.com/9/8356/28897120681_3b2c0f43e0_b.jpg",
      width: 320,
      height: 212,
      tags: [
         { value: "Ocean", title: "Ocean" },
         { value: "People", title: "People" },
      ],
      alt: "Boats (Jeshu John - designerspics.com)",
   },
   {
      src: "https://c4.staticflickr.com/9/8887/28897124891_98c4fdd82b_b.jpg",
      width: 320,
      height: 212,
   },
];

<Gallery images={images} />

Image Options

Property	Type	Description
src	string	Required. A string referring to any valid image resource (file, url, etc).
width	number	Required. Width of the image.
height	number	Required. Height of the image.
nano	string:base64	Optional. Thumbnail Base64 image will be injected to background under the main image. This provides a base64, 4x4 generated image whilst the image is being loaded.
alt	string	Optional. Image alt attribute.
tags	array	Optional. An array of objects containing tag attributes (value, title and key if value is element). e.g. `{value: "foo", title: "bar"}` or `{value: <a href={tag.url}>{tag.name}</a>, title: tag.title, key: tag.key}`
isSelected	bool	Optional. The selected state of the image.
caption	string \| ReactNode	Optional. Image caption.
customOverlay	element	Optional. A custom element to be rendered as a thumbnail overlay on hover.
thumbnailCaption	string \| ReactNode	Optional. A thumbnail caption shown below thumbnail.
orientation	number	Optional. Orientation of the image. Many newer digital cameras (both dSLR and Point & Shoot digicams) have a built-in orientation sensor. The output of this sensor is used to set the EXIF orientation flag in the image file's metatdata to reflect the positioning of the camera with respect to the ground (See EXIF Orientation Page for more info).

Gallery Options

Property	Type	Description
images	array	Required. An array of objects containing image properties (see Image Options above).
id	string	Optional, default `ReactGridGallery`. `id` attribute for `<Gallery>` tag. This prop may be useful for those who wish to discriminate between multiple galleries.
enableImageSelection	bool	Optional, default `true`. Allow images to be selectable. Setting this option to `false` whilst supplying images with `isSelected: true` will result in those images being permanently selected.
onSelect	func	Optional. Function to execute when an image is selected. Optional args: `index` (index of selected image in images array), `image` (the selected image), `event`. This function is only executable when `enableImageSelection: true`.
rowHeight	number	Optional, default `180`. The height of each row in the gallery.
maxRows	number	Optional. The maximum number of rows to show in the gallery.
margin	number	Optional, default `2`. The margin around each image in the gallery.
onClick	func	Optional. Function to execute when gallery image clicked. Optional args: `index` (index of selected image in images array), `image` (the clicked image), event (the click event).
tagStyle	func \| CSSProperties	Optional. Style or function that returns style to pass to tag elements. Optional args: `item` (the image item in `images`). Overrides internal tag style.
tileViewportStyle	func \| CSSProperties	Optional. Style or function to style the image tile viewport. Optional args: `item` (the image item in `images`). Overrides internal tileViewportStyle function.
thumbnailStyle	func \| CSSProperties	Optional. Style or function to style the image thumbnail. Optional args: `item` (the image item in `images`). Overrides internal thumbnailStyle function.
thumbnailImageComponent	React component	Optional. Substitute in a React component that would get passed `imageProps` (the props that would have been passed to the `<img>` tag) and `item` (the original item in `images`) to be used to render thumbnails; useful for lazy loading.
defaultContainerWidth	number	Optional. Set default width for the container. This option is useful during server-side rendering when we want to generate an initial markup before we can detect the actual container width.

General Notes

react-grid-gallery is built for modern browsers and therefore IE support is limited to IE 11 and newer.
As the inspiration for this component comes from Google Photos, very small thumbnails may not be the most aesthetically pleasing due to the border size applied when selected. A sensible rowHeight default of 180px has been chosen, but rowHeights down to 100px are still reasonable.
Gallery width is determined by the containing element. Therefore your containing element must have a width (%, em, px, whatever) before the gallery is loaded!
If you don't know your width and height values, you can find these out using any number of javascript hacks, bearing in mind the load penalty associated with these methods.

Contributing

All contributions to react-grid-gallery are very welcome. Feature requests, issue reports and pull requests are greatly appreciated. Please follow the contribution guidelines

License

React Grid Gallery is free to use for personal and commercial projects under the MIT License. Attribution is not required, but appreciated.

Acknowledgements

itoldya for the large overhaul of the code base to bring the library to its v1 release.
Visual design inspired by Google Photos.
Thumbnail viewport implementation inspired by GPlusGallery by Florian Maul.
Backend lightbox functionality via React Images by jossmac.
The following gallery functions were obtained from the React Images example demo: closeLightbox, gotoNext, gotoPrevious, handleClickImage, openLightbox.
cust0dian for critical bug fixes in PR 6 and PR 7.
ValYouW for lightboxWillOpen and lightBoxWillClose functionality PR 20 and customOverlay option: PR 22.
danalloway for theme pass-through prop PR 27
SimeonC for update thumbnails when maxRows changes PR 35 and resize on scrollbar presence change PR 40
jakub-tucek for thumbnailCaption functionality PR 42
mis94 for EXIF image rotation functionality PR 67
forforf for contentWindow check PR 77
ScottMRafferty for preloadNextImage not propagating to Lightbox fix PR 78
Approximator for currentImageWillChange (Function to execute before lightbox image change) PR 97.
Vadimuz for nano image props and functionality PR 101.
pxpeterxu for adding functionality to inject a custom thumbnail image component (for lazy-loading) PR 104.
lryta for fixing crash when this.props.images.length - 1 < this.state.currentImage PR #111.
jimishf for lightBoxProps option to assign any prop directly to lightbox PR #121.
kym6464 for replacing deprecated defaultProps and for clearing of rollup cache on build PR #298
Demo stock photos:
- Jeshu John - designerspics.com
- Gratisography
- Tom Eversley - isorepublic.com
- Jan Vasek - jeshoots.com
- moveast.me
- 贝莉儿 NG. - unsplash.com
- Matthew Wiebe. - unsplash.com