What's the best jQuery “click a thumbnail and change the main image” module?

Question

Here\'s what I have (all generated dynamically, if that makes a difference) :

• A list of images
• A caption for each image
• A thumbnail for each imag

Answer 1

Have you tried Lightbox? http://leandrovieira.com/projects/jquery/lightbox/

Answer 2

Building off of krembo99's answer he linked here, I wanted to share my solution as I had already uploaded hundreds of photos when my client had requested a feature like this. With that in mind, by adding a few extra lines to the provided code, I was able to get a solution that fit my parameters.

I was also working with smaller images as well, so I had no need to go through creating small & large versions of the same file.

$('.thumbnails img').click(function(){

 // Grab img.thumb class src attribute
 // NOTE: ALL img tags must have use this class, 
 // otherwise you can't click back to the first image.

 var thumbSrc = $('.thumb').attr('src');

 // Grab img#largeImage src attribute
 var largeSrc = $('#largeImage').attr('src');

  // Use variables to replace src instead of relying on file names.
  $('#largeImage').attr('src',$(this).attr('src').replace(thumbSrc,largeSrc));
  $('#description').html($(this).attr('alt'));

});

Here's how my HTML looks.

    <img src="path/to/file1.jpg" id="largeImage" class="thumb">
    <div id="description">1st image Description</div>

    <div class="thumbnails">

     <img src="path/to/file1.jpg" class="thumb" alt="1st image description">
     <img src="path/to/file2.jpg" class="thumb"alt="2nd image description">
     <img src="path/to/file3.jpg" class="thumb" alt="3rd image description">
     <img src="path/to/file4.jpg" class="thumb" alt="4th image description">
     <img src="path/to/file5.jpg" class="thumb" alt="5th image description">

    </div>