Contact Sheet Gallery

Playground

Tune the props live — the code snippet updates as you go, so you can dial in the look you want before copying it.

import * as React from "react";

export default function Example() {
  return (
    <div className="flex min-h-[320px] w-full items-center justify-center p-6">

<ContactSheetGallery/>

    </div>
  );
}

Installation

npx webberui@latest add https://webberui.com/r/contact-sheet-gallery.en.json

Usage

import {
  ContactSheetGallery,
  ContactSheetFrame,
} from "@/components/ui/contact-sheet-gallery";

<ContactSheetGallery columns={4} filmLabel="WEBBER 400TX">
  <ContactSheetFrame id="a" annotation="This one ✓">
    <img src="/photos/a.jpg" alt="Street scene" />
  </ContactSheetFrame>
  <ContactSheetFrame id="b">
    <img src="/photos/b.jpg" alt="Portrait" />
  </ContactSheetFrame>
</ContactSheetGallery>;

A frame can hold an <img>, a gradient div, or any node; an <img> is automatically object-cover'd to fill the frame. Clicking a frame enlarges it into a work print, and clicking the background, pressing the close button, or hitting Esc all collapse it.

Controlled selection

Take over the selected state with selectedId / onSelectChange to sync from outside or open and close the work print programmatically:

const [selected, setSelected] = React.useState<string | null>(null);

<ContactSheetGallery selectedId={selected} onSelectChange={setSelected}>
  {/* ...ContactSheetFrame */}
</ContactSheetGallery>;

Props

ContactSheetGallery

ContactSheetFrame

How it works

• Film layout: the sprocket-hole edge strips are tiled with an SVG pattern, so their width adapts and is independent of the frame count; the bottom edge is printed with the film-stock marking and a direction arrow.
• Grease pencil circling: on hover or keyboard focus, a crayon ellipse is drawn in a single stroke through SVG pathLength; the mark uses non-scaling-stroke, so it hugs a frame of any proportion while keeping a constant line width.
• Work print: selecting a frame enlarges it into a work print through a shared layoutId, with the image "pulled out" of its original frame and an empty frame left behind; the annotation fades in in a handwritten face as its underline is drawn.
• The colors stay on a neutral scale throughout, with markColor as the only accent, adjustable per project.

Accessibility

• Every frame is a native <button> supporting Enter / Space to select, carrying aria-pressed and an aria-label (falling back to Question N Frame, "frame N", when label is not supplied).
• The work print is role="dialog" + aria-modal, focusing the close button automatically when it opens and returning focus to the original frame once closed; Esc, clicking the background, and the close button all collapse it.
• When the user has "reduce motion" enabled at the system level, the reveal, the circling stroke, and the enlargement offset are disabled and it switches straight to the static layout.