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Adding a Mosaic of Images

Display five images as mosaic tiles.

Overview

A mosaic lets you display images as part of a larger collection.

On this page, you’ll learn how to use a mosaic to display images as a set of tiles.

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Add a Mosaic with Captions in Your Article

In Download the Article Bundle Examples, you downloaded a bundle called News_Design_Tutorial_5_Galleries that contains gallery images and mosaic images. Now, you’ll move some of those images into your working folder and create a mosaic component to display the images.

In Positioning Text Components and Adding an Image and Captions, you created some ComponentLayout objects. You’ll refer to those ComponentLayout objects in this code.

  1. Move the mosaic-01.jpg, mosaic-02.jpg, mosaic-03.jpg, mosaic-04.jpg, and mosaic-05.jpg files from the Desktop/News_Design/Tutorial/News_Design_Tutorial_5_Galleries folder that you downloaded in Download the Article Bundle Examples to the folder that contains your working article.json file.

  2. Copy example code Mosaic: Copy This Code.

  3. Paste the code inside the components array of your article, after the closing brace and comma (},) that end the body component whose text begins with Et harum quidem.

Your code should look like the example code Mosaic: Result.

After you make this change in your code, you can preview your working article.json file in News Preview to see a mosaic in your article.

Mosaic: Copy This Code

   {
      "role": "heading2",
      "layout": "fullMarginAboveHalfBelowLayout",
      "text": "MOSAIC HEADING"
    },
    {
      "role": "mosaic",
      "layout": "noMarginLayout",
      "items": [
        {
          "URL": "bundle://mosaic-01.jpg",
          "caption": "A caption for the first image in the mosaic."
        },
        {
          "URL": "bundle://mosaic-02.jpg",
          "caption": "A caption for the second image in the mosaic."
        },
        {
          "URL": "bundle://mosaic-03.jpg",
          "caption": "A caption for the third image in the mosaic."
        },
        {
          "URL": "bundle://mosaic-04.jpg",
          "caption": "A caption for the fourth image in the mosaic."
        },
        {
          "URL": "bundle://mosaic-05.jpg",
          "caption": "A caption for the fifth image in the mosaic."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "role": "caption",
      "layout": "halfMarginBothLayout",
      "text": "ABOVE: A caption for the entire mosaic. Individual photos in the mosaic also have their own captions. (Shared attribution)"
    },
    {
      "role": "divider",
      "layout": "noMarginLayout",
      "stroke": {
        "width": 1,
        "color": "#D5B327"
      }
    },

Mosaic: Result

Ellipses (...) indicate lines of code that have been omitted from this example.

{
  ...
  "components": [
    ...
    {
      "role": "heading2",
      "layout": "fullMarginAboveHalfBelowLayout",
      "text": "MOSAIC HEADING"
    },
    {
      "role": "mosaic",
      "layout": "noMarginLayout",
      "items": [
        {
          "URL": "bundle://mosaic-01.jpg",
          "caption": "A caption for the first image in the mosaic."
        },
        {
          "URL": "bundle://mosaic-02.jpg",
          "caption": "A caption for the second image in the mosaic."
        },
        {
          "URL": "bundle://mosaic-03.jpg",
          "caption": "A caption for the third image in the mosaic."
        },
        {
          "URL": "bundle://mosaic-04.jpg",
          "caption": "A caption for the fourth image in the mosaic."
        },
        {
          "URL": "bundle://mosaic-05.jpg",
          "caption": "A caption for the fifth image in the mosaic."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "role": "caption",
      "layout": "halfMarginBothLayout",
      "text": "ABOVE: A caption for the entire mosaic. Individual photos in the mosaic also have their own captions. (Shared attribution)"
    },
    {
      "role": "divider",
      "layout": "noMarginLayout",
      "stroke": {
        "width": 1,
        "color": "#D5B327"
      }
    },
    ...
  ],
  ...
}

Further Exploration

At any time, you can try changing property values in your article.json file and then use News Preview to see how these changes affect the look of your article.

For example, try changing the order of images in your mosaic component by changing URLs:

  1. In your article.json file, find the mosaic component.

  2. In the first mosaic image’s URL property, replace the 01 with 02.

  3. In the second mosaic image’s URL property, replace the 02 with 01.

  4. Preview your article.json file in News Preview.

The order of your first and second images has been switched.

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Related Documentation

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