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Reflected Images with Javascript
Posted by Lisa in Programming on 10.18.06

How would you like to use one script to create reflected images on your website? Instead of using Photoshop to create the reflections on each image - you can simply use this script to do the work for you!

Here is an example

Here is the script (including credits to the developers):

/**
* reflection.js v1.6
*
* Contributors: Cow http://cow.neondragon.net
* Gfx http://www.jroller.com/page/gfx/
* Sitharus http://www.sitharus.com
* Andreas Linde http://www.andreaslinde.de
* Tralala, coder @ http://www.vbulletin.org
*
* Freely distributable under MIT-style license.
*/

/* From prototype.js */
document.getElementsByClassName = function(className) {
var children = document.getElementsByTagName('*') || document.all;
var elements = new Array();

for (var i = 0; i < children.length; i++) {
var child = children[i];
var classNames = child.className.split(' ');
for (var j = 0; j < classNames.length; j++) {
if (classNames[j] == className) {
elements.push(child);
break;
}
}
}
return elements;
}

var Reflection = {
defaultHeight : 0.5,
defaultOpacity: 0.5,

add: function(image, options) {
Reflection.remove(image);

doptions = { "height" : Reflection.defaultHeight, "opacity" : Reflection.defaultOpacity }
if (options) {
for (var i in doptions) {
if (!options[i]) {
options[i] = doptions[i];
}
}
} else {
options = doptions;
}

try {
var d = document.createElement('div');
var p = image;

var classes = p.className.split(' ');
var newClasses = '';
for (j=0;j if (classes[j] != "reflect") {
if (newClasses) {
newClasses += ' '
}

newClasses += classes[j];
}
}

var reflectionHeight = Math.floor(p.height*options['height']);
var divHeight = Math.floor(p.height*(1+options['height']));

var reflectionWidth = p.width;

if (document.all && !window.opera) {
/* Copy original image's classes & styles to div */
d.className = newClasses;
p.className = 'reflected';

d.style.cssText = p.style.cssText;
p.style.cssText = 'vertical-align: bottom';

var reflection = document.createElement('img');
reflection.src = p.src;
reflection.style.width = reflectionWidth+'px';

reflection.style.marginBottom = "-"+(p.height-reflectionHeight)+'px';
reflection.style.filter = 'flipv progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Alpha(opacity='+(options['opacity']*100)+', style=1, finishOpacity=0, startx=0, starty=0, finishx=0, finishy='+(options['height']*100)+')';

d.style.width = reflectionWidth+'px';
d.style.height = divHeight+'px';
p.parentNode.replaceChild(d, p);

d.appendChild(p);
d.appendChild(reflection);
} else {
var canvas = document.createElement('canvas');
if (canvas.getContext) {
/* Copy original image's classes & styles to div */
d.className = newClasses;
p.className = 'reflected';

d.style.cssText = p.style.cssText;
p.style.cssText = 'vertical-align: bottom';

var context = canvas.getContext("2d");

canvas.style.height = reflectionHeight+'px';
canvas.style.width = reflectionWidth+'px';
canvas.height = reflectionHeight;
canvas.width = reflectionWidth;

d.style.width = reflectionWidth+'px';
d.style.height = divHeight+'px';
p.parentNode.replaceChild(d, p);

d.appendChild(p);
d.appendChild(canvas);

context.save();

context.translate(0,image.height-1);
context.scale(1,-1);

context.drawImage(image, 0, 0, reflectionWidth, image.height);

context.restore();

context.globalCompositeOperation = "destination-out";
var gradient = context.createLinearGradient(0, 0, 0, reflectionHeight);

gradient.addColorStop(1, "rgba(255, 255, 255, 1.0)");
gradient.addColorStop(0, "rgba(255, 255, 255, "+(1-options['opacity'])+")");

context.fillStyle = gradient;
if (navigator.appVersion.indexOf('WebKit') != -1) {
context.fill();
} else {
context.fillRect(0, 0, reflectionWidth, reflectionHeight*2);
}
}
}
} catch (e) {
}
},

remove : function(image) {
if (image.className == "reflected") {
image.className = image.parentNode.className;
image.parentNode.parentNode.replaceChild(image, image.parentNode);
}
}
}

function addReflections() {
var rimages = document.getElementsByClassName('reflect');
for (i=0;i var rheight = null;
var ropacity = null;

var classes = rimages[i].className.split(' ');
for (j=0;j if (classes[j].indexOf("rheight") == 0) {
var rheight = classes[j].substring(7)/100;
} else if (classes[j].indexOf("ropacity") == 0) {
var ropacity = classes[j].substring(8)/100;
}
}

Reflection.add(rimages[i], { height: rheight, opacity : ropacity});
}
}

var previousOnload = window.onload;
window.onload = function () { if(previousOnload) previousOnload(); addReflections(); }

To attach the code to an image, simply add class=”reflect”. You can also set the height and the opacity of the reflection in percentages like this:
class="reflect rheight69 ropacity74"
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Click here for additional information on this script.

Comments

My only complaint is that they are putting variable code information into the CSS class:

<img src=”reflectme.gif” width=”141″ height=”15″ class=”reflect rheight69 ropacity74″>

This information probably belongs in the rel or rev tag.

Lawrence Krubner on 10-18-06 at 6:47 pm
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