How To Code an Image Zoom Hover Display with jQuery

For typical e-commerce websites you will often notice a detailed photo display when hovering an image. The zoom effect helps prospective buyers to see more of the product when deciding if it’s worth purchasing. This familiar image zoom effect can be applied to many other websites just to provide a better user experience.

In this tutorial you’ll be introduced to a very simple jQuery plugin called EasyZoom. It’s all free and open source to download right from Github. The tool makes it super easy to create your own image zoom panel, which cana ppear on mouseover or be tied onto another event handler.