Collection of free HTML and CSS image thumbnail code examples. Update of July 2020 collection. 3 new items.
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Image Gallery with Overlay Effect/Animation
This is image gallery with a very easy hover effect/animation using only pure CSS.
Compatible browsers: Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari
Responsive: yes
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Card Animation - Demon Slayer
Card hover animation using CSS and HTML only. It shows the info of characters from anime Demon Slayer.
Compatible browsers: Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari
Responsive: yes
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CSS Image Hover Effects
Trying out hover effects.
Compatible browsers: Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari
Responsive: yes
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CSS Thumbnail Hover Effects
Compatible browsers: Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari
Responsive: yes
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Respopnsive Images with Thumbnails
Compatible browsers: Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari
Responsive: yes
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Thumbnail Hover Interaction
Pure CSS thumbnail hover interaction.
Compatible browsers: Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari
Responsive: yes
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CSS Thumbnail Text Hover
Compatible browsers: Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari
Responsive: no
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Split Image Thumbnail
Split thumbnail image on hover in HTML and CSS.
Compatible browsers: Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari
Responsive: yes
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CSS Thumbnail Transition Effects
Compatible browsers: Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari
Responsive: yes
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Animated Gallery Thumbnails
A fancy responsive CSS animated gallery thumbnails.
Compatible browsers: Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari
Responsive: yes
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Thumbnail Hover Effects
Pure CSS3 image thumbnail hover effects, also we can easily change the grid item per row using by Sass variable.
Compatible browsers: Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari
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Figure & Figcaption
Design a beautiful and/or unique figure
and figcapation
pairing.
Compatible browsers: Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari
Responsive: yes
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Fotobook Album Thumbnail
Compatible browsers: Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari
Responsive: no
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- HTML (Slim) / CSS (SCSS)
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Document Thumbnail with 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 leave dog-ear gap top right. Image url supplied by custom property declared inline in HTML.
Compatible browsers: Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari
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Thumbnail Effect
Image thumbnail hover effect.
Compatible browsers: Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari
Dependencies: font-awesome.css

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Thumbnail Hover
CSS thumbnail hover with caption and social buttons.
Compatible browsers: Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari
Dependencies: bootstrap.css, font-awesome.css

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Thumbnail Presentation with CSS Grid
This should work with older browsers as far as IE9. Older browsers and non-supporting browsers will get a "conservative" design instead.
Compatible browsers: Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari
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flex- thumbnails
CSS flexbox thumbnail arrangements.
Compatible browsers: Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari
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CSS Responsive Thumbnail
CSS Thumbnail responsive flexbox hover transition.
Compatible browsers: Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari
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CSS Thumbnail
Thumbnail CSS hover transition.
Compatible browsers: Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari
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Flexbox YouTube Thumbnail Grid
Responsive flexbox unordered list grid of YouTube video thumbnails with Fancybox links. Uses a 9kb image with a 16:9 aspect ratio to be able to use the YouTube thumbnails as a background image, without seeing those black letterbox bars at the top and bottom. This also makes the video thumbnails fluid when resizing the browser.
Compatible browsers: Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari
Dependencies: jquery.fancybox-three.css, jquery.js, jquery.fancybox-three.js


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Thumbnail Hover
Angled thumbnail hover interaction.
Compatible browsers: Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari
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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.
Compatible browsers: Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari
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Artist Radio Thumbnails
Recreation of Spotify artist radio thumbnails.
Compatible browsers: Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari
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Pure CSS Perfect Square Thumbnails Gallery
A responsive image gallery using only CSS with a centered button on the hover and centered and cropped thumbnails.
Compatible browsers: Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari
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Pure CSS Thumbnail Hover Effect
Thumbnail hover effect with CSS3.
Compatible browsers: Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari
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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.
Compatible browsers: Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari
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Flipping Thumbnails
Flipping thumbnails in HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
Compatible browsers: Chrome, Opera, Safari
Dependencies: jquery.js