Display Styles

There are currently three gallery display styles that galleries can be displayed with.

Standard

The default gallery style. This displays artworks in rows of fixed width, without cropping or clipping artworks; in order to keep each row at a fixed width, the height of each row is adjusted according to the width of the artworks contained in that row.

When the browser window is resized or the user scrolls down in infinite scroll mode, the sizes of the artworks are recalculated, with a record kept of which artworks are in which rows, as artworks sometimes need to be moved up or down between rows to keep the display functioning correctly.

Feed

This style shows artworks in a vertical feed, one at a time. Since more space is available on the page in this style, inline buttons are shown next to artworks for easy bookmarking/reblogging/etc.

Square

This style shows artworks as squares, with a set number of columns that can be changed by the user. Artworks are clipped to their center areas for this style.

Switching between display styles

When the user requests to change to a new gallery display style, the change is applied to all currently active galleries on that page. For example, if a user has been browsing another user's gallery, and their reblogs profile tab, there will be two active galleries on the page.

This is to prevent it being irritating for users to have one display style in use at a given time, when e.g. browsing their bookmark folders or other areas with multiple galleries.