40+ CSS Thumbnails - Free Code + Demos

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1. CSS Image Hover Effects

CSS Thumbnails - CSS Image Hover Effects
Trying out hover effects. Note: if these were cards and contains links I'd have created focus styles as well :)
Author: Abubaker Saeed (AbubakerSaeed)
Created on: April 27, 2020
Made with: HTML, CSS, JS
Tags: css, hover, effects, cpc-image-hovers, codepenchallenge

2. CSS Image Hover Effects

CSS Thumbnails - CSS Image Hover Effects
Author: Aybüke Ceylan (aybukeceylan)
Created on: April 22, 2020
Made with: HTML, SCSS
Tags: image, hover, cpc-image-hovers, codepenchallange

3. Responsive Images With Thumbnails

CSS Thumbnails - Responsive Images With Thumbnails
Author: Raymond (rymnd_rbg)
Created on: April 15, 2020
Made with: HTML, CSS
Tags: cpc-art-direct-image, codepenchallenge

4. Card Hover Interaction | HTML & CSS

CSS Thumbnails - Card Hover Interaction | HTML & CSS
Background Position is a bit jerky to animate. I think it would be better to use instead of animating background-position I would love to see a fork.
Author: Sikriti Dakua (dev_loop)
Created on: March 31, 2020
Made with: HTML, SCSS

5. CSS Thumbnail Text Hover

CSS Thumbnails - CSS thumbnail text hover
Author: Rajesh Bhattarai (rajeshuiux)
Created on: September 11, 2019
Made with: HTML, CSS

6. Split Image On Hover

CSS Thumbnails - Split Image on hover
Author: YJ (John_Tsai)
Created on: January 2, 2019
Made with: Pug, Sass
CSS Pre-processor: Sass
JS Pre-processor: None
HTML Pre-processor: Pug

7. CSS Thumbnail Transition Effects

CSS Thumbnails - CSS Thumbnail Transition Effects
Author: Javier Lopez (javierlopez)
Created on: December 6, 2018
Made with: HTML, CSS

8. Animated Gallery Thumbnails

CSS Thumbnails - Animated Gallery Thumbnails
Author: Simto Alev (simtoalev)
Created on: October 5, 2018
Made with: HTML, SCSS, JS
Tags: pure-css, gallery, thumbnail, animation, animated

9. THUMBNAIL HOVER EFFECTS

CSS Thumbnails - THUMBNAIL HOVER EFFECTS
Pure CSS3 image thumbnail hover effects, also we can easily change the grid item per row using by sass variable.
Author: Nikhil Krishnan (nikhil8krishnan)
Created on: July 6, 2018
Made with: HTML, SCSS
Tags: css3, hover, thumbnail, hover-effects, sass

10. Fotobook Album Thumbnail

CSS Thumbnails - Fotobook Album Thumbnail
Author: Hansford Nguyen (hansfordnguyen)
Created on: June 10, 2018
Made with: Haml, SCSS
CSS Pre-processor: SCSS
JS Pre-processor: None
HTML Pre-processor: Haml

11. Document Thumbnail With Dog-ear Via CSS Custom Property

CSS Thumbnails - Document thumbnail with dog-ear via CSS custom property
Dog-ear will position itself it top right corner regardless of original size / aspect ratio of image. Effect achieved by using hidden img to set size of relatively positioned parent container - then two absolutely positioned pseudo elements with the same image as a background overlap to le...
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Author: Scott Henderson (scootman)
Created on: November 9, 2017
Made with: Slim, SCSS, JS
CSS Pre-processor: SCSS
JS Pre-processor: None
HTML Pre-processor: Slim
Tags: css custom properties, dog-ear

12. Image Thumbnail Hover Effect

CSS Thumbnails - Image Thumbnail Hover Effect
Author: Amrit Pandey (amritpandey)
Created on: November 8, 2017
Made with: HTML, CSS

13. Thumbnail Hover 1

CSS Thumbnails - Thumbnail Hover 1
Author: AmolB (AmolVBharambe)
Created on: November 1, 2017
Made with: HTML, CSS
Tags: card, ui card, hover-animation, ui grid, thumbnail

14. Thumbnail Presentation With CSS Grid

CSS Thumbnails - Thumbnail Presentation with CSS Grid
This was fun to make. Again, it is inspired by Polygon's (polygon.com) bevel treatment on their thumbnails. I decided to take a step further and go crazy with it and at the same time playing with CSS Grid. This should work with older browsers as far as IE9. Older browsers and non-supportin...
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Author: Aysha Anggraini (rrenula)
Created on: September 29, 2017
Made with: HTML, SCSS
Tags: css-grid, thumbnail, layout, grid

15. Flex- Thumbnails

CSS Thumbnails - flex- thumbnails
Author: NaveenBhaskar (naveenbhaskar)
Created on: August 30, 2017
Made with: HTML, SCSS

16. CSS Thumbnail Responsive Flexbox Hover Transition

CSS Thumbnails - CSS Thumbnail responsive flexbox hover transition
A quick pen to play around with flexbox hover transition.
Author: raykuo (raykuo)
Created on: July 31, 2017
Made with: Pug, SCSS
CSS Pre-processor: SCSS
JS Pre-processor: None
HTML Pre-processor: Pug
Tags: css, animation, transition, scss, flexbox

17. Thumbnail CSS Hover Transition

CSS Thumbnails - Thumbnail CSS hover transition
Author: raykuo (raykuo)
Created on: July 10, 2017
Made with: Pug, CSS
CSS Pre-processor: None
JS Pre-processor: None
HTML Pre-processor: Pug
Tags: css, animation, transition, css-animation, ux

18. Flexbox YouTube Thumbnail Grid

CSS Thumbnails - Flexbox YouTube Thumbnail Grid
Responsive flexbox unordered list grid of YouTube video thumbnails with Fancybox links.
Author: Greg Sweet (ControlledChaos)
Created on: November 6, 2016
Made with: HTML, SCSS
Tags: flexbox, fancybox, responsive, grid, video

19. Angled Thumbnail Hover Interaction

CSS Thumbnails - Angled Thumbnail Hover Interaction
Replicating the thumbnail treatment from https://stupid-studio.com/.
Author: Nathan Long (nathanlong)
Created on: September 23, 2016
Made with: HTML, SCSS
Tags: thumbnail, hover, angle, gallery

20. Thumbnail With Animated Captions

CSS Thumbnails - Thumbnail with Animated Captions
In combination with data attributes, you can build a thumbnail image with title and description using just one single line of HTML code.
Author: Anselm Urban (a-urban)
Created on: August 15, 2016
Made with: HTML, CSS
Tags: thumbnail, hover, css, effect, animation

21. Spotify Artist Radio Thumbnails

CSS Thumbnails - Spotify Artist Radio Thumbnails
Recreation of Spotify artist radio thumbnails
Author: Alan Shortis (alanshortis)
Created on: May 8, 2016
Made with: HTML, SCSS, JS

22. Pure CSS Perfect Square Thumbnails Gallery

CSS Thumbnails - Pure CSS perfect square thumbnails gallery
A responsive image gallery using pure CSS with a centered button on the hover and centered and cropped thumbnails.
Author: Hitz Kareaga (hitzkareaga)
Created on: November 30, 2015
Made with: HTML, SCSS
Tags: square thumbnails, thumbnails gallery, pure-css, responsive image gallery, button on hover

23. Pure CSS Thumbnail Hover Effect

CSS Thumbnails - Pure CSS Thumbnail Hover Effect
This was inspired by an old blog post of Sohtanaka. He had created a similar effect using jQuery. I decided to replicate the same effect with CSS3. My final result is slightly different compared to his but it is still the same effect. Link to the original tutorial and demo is included in t...
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Author: Aysha Anggraini (rrenula)
Created on: November 21, 2013
Made with: HTML, CSS
Tags: hover-effect, css3, thumbnail

24. Rounded Thumbnails Portfolio

CSS Thumbnails - Rounded thumbnails portfolio
Presents portfolio as randomly placed rounded thumbnails that expands to full width and height on hover. Description appears on one of the sides with smooth rotating effect.
Author: Pavel Burov (pmburov)
Created on: April 7, 2013
Made with: HTML, SCSS
Tags: css3, transitions

25. Flipping Thumbnails

CSS Thumbnails - Flipping thumbnails
Author: Christophe Béghin (CBeghin)
Created on: February 19, 2013
Made with: HTML, CSS, JS
Tags: rotate, blur, webkit, css3

26. Animated CSS Thumbnail Gallery

CSS Thumbnails - Animated CSS thumbnail gallery
Author: Jason (almightythud)
Created on: October 26, 2018
Made with: HTML, SCSS

27. Thumbnail With Animated Captions

CSS Thumbnails - Thumbnail with Animated Captions
In combination with data attributes, you can build a thumbnail image with title and description using just one single line of HTML code.
Author: SitePoint (SitePoint)
Created on: August 22, 2016
Made with: HTML, CSS
Tags: thumbnail, hover, css, effect, animation

28. Responsive Thumbnail Box

CSS Thumbnails - Responsive Thumbnail Box
Thumbnail: 2:3 = 100%:66.67% Forked from redfrost's Pen Responsive Thumbnail Box.
Author: mahsum (alyanak)
Created on: September 27, 2015
Made with: HTML, CSS, JS

29. Basic Thumbnail Gallery Using Bootstrap And CSS Transitions

CSS Thumbnails - Basic Thumbnail Gallery Using Bootstrap and CSS Transitions
Author: Will Polliard (willpolliard)
Created on: July 16, 2016
Made with: HTML, CSS, JS

30. Minimal Responsive Thumbnail Gallery (Grid & Masonry)

CSS Thumbnails - Minimal Responsive Thumbnail Gallery (Grid & Masonry)
Responsive gallery thumbnails with support for Grid and Masonry layouts. Minimal HTML and CSS only utilizing Flexbox.
Author: Akin Bilgic (AkinBilgic)
Created on: July 24, 2019
Made with: HTML, CSS
Tags: gallery, thumbnails, grid, masonry, flexbox

31. Clickable Gallery Tiles.

CSS Thumbnails - Clickable gallery tiles.
Author: Will H McMahan (whmii)
Created on: January 26, 2016
Made with: HTML, SCSS, JS
Tags: css, shadows, gallery, thumbnails

32. Hover Idea

CSS Thumbnails - Hover Idea
An idea for using transformations on hover. Uses a mixin for using fixed ratios for responsive elements.
Author: auginator (auginator)
Created on: April 29, 2015
Made with: HTML, SCSS
Tags: hover, thumbnails, transforms

33. Carousel Gallery With Thumbnails And Touch Control Inside Modal Popup Using Bootstrap And JQuery

CSS Thumbnails - Carousel Gallery with Thumbnails and Touch Control inside Modal Popup using Bootstrap and jQuery
Carousel Gallery with Thumbnails inside Modal Popup using Bootstrap and jQuery. Instead of indicator dots we are using thumbnails.
Author: ali sinan (alisinan)
Created on: October 13, 2017
Made with: HTML, SCSS, JS
Tags: carousel, gallery, portfolio, modal, popup

34. Image Gallery (Bootstrap 4 + Magnific Popup)

CSS Thumbnails - Image Gallery (Bootstrap 4 + Magnific Popup)
Author: Kush (kushfels)
Created on: February 5, 2020
Made with: HTML, CSS, JS
Tags: bootstrap 4, magnific popup, image-gallery

35. A Better Responsive Image Gallery With Flexbox

CSS Thumbnails - A Better Responsive Image Gallery With Flexbox
More details on my blog
Author: Dudley Storey (dudleystorey)
Created on: June 22, 2014
Made with: HTML, CSS
Tags: flexbox, gallery, images, grid, rwd

36. CSS Grid Deserts

CSS Thumbnails - CSS Grid Deserts
Playing around with CSS Grid in responsive image galleries. Can you tell what I was craving when I made this?.....
Author: Stephanie (ramenhog)
Made with: HTML, SCSS

37. Thumbnails With Captions Style

CSS Thumbnails - Thumbnails With Captions Style
Author: Dima Hijazi (dima_hijazi)
Created on: September 28, 2014
Made with: HTML, CSS
Tags: thumbnails

38. Food Thumbnail Hover UI

CSS Thumbnails - Food Thumbnail Hover UI
A quick little dual transition of images on hover inside elements with border-radius. Includes a fade-in caption. Webkit transition clipping problem is addressed with an "invisible" border.
Author: Dudley Storey (dudleystorey)
Created on: February 8, 2014
Made with: HTML, CSS
Tags: images, thumbnails, caption, transitions
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