Select variants by clicking their images

Normally, variants are selected from a drop-down menu. You might want your customers to be able to select a product variant by clicking a variant image.

click image to change variant example

Steps:

  1. From your Shopify admin, go to Online Store > Themes.
  2. Find the theme you want to edit, click the button to open the actions menu, and then click Edit code.
  3. Open the theme.js or theme.js.liquid file in your Assets folder.
  4. At the bottom of the file, paste the following code:
const selectVariantByClickingImage = {
  // Create variant images from productJson object
  _createVariantImage: function (product) {
    const variantImageObject = {};
    product.variants.forEach((variant) => {
      if (
        typeof variant.featured_image !== 'undefined' &&
        variant.featured_image !== null
      ) {
        const variantImage = variant.featured_image.src
          .split('?')[0]
          .replace(/http(s)?:/, '');
        variantImageObject[variantImage] =
          variantImageObject[variantImage] || {};
        product.options.forEach((option, index) => {
          const optionValue = variant.options[index];
          const optionKey = `option-${index}`;
          if (
            typeof variantImageObject[variantImage][optionKey] === 'undefined'
          ) {
            variantImageObject[variantImage][optionKey] = optionValue;
          } else {
            const oldValue = variantImageObject[variantImage][optionKey];
            if (oldValue !== null && oldValue !== optionValue) {
              variantImageObject[variantImage][optionKey] = null;
            }
          }
        });
      }
    });
    return variantImageObject;
  },
  _updateVariant: function (event, id, product, variantImages) {
    const arrImage = event.target.src
      .split('?')[0]
      .replace(/http(s)?:/, '')
      .split('.');
    const strExtention = arrImage.pop();
    const strRemaining = arrImage.pop().replace(/_[a-zA-Z0-9@]+$/, '');
    const strNewImage = `${arrImage.join('.')}.${strRemaining}.${strExtention}`;
    if (typeof variantImages[strNewImage] !== 'undefined') {
      product.variants.forEach((option, index) => {
        const optionValue = variantImages[strNewImage][`option-${index}`];
        if (optionValue !== null && optionValue !== undefined) {
          const selects = document.querySelectorAll('#'+ id + ' [class*=single-option-selector]');
          const options = selects[index].options;
          for (let option, n = 0; (option = options[n]); n += 1) {
            if (option.value === optionValue) {
              selects[index].selectedIndex = n;
              selects[index].dispatchEvent(new Event('change'));
              break;
            }
          }
        }
      });
    }
  },
  _selectVariant: function() {
    const productJson = document.querySelectorAll('[id^=ProductJson-');
    if (productJson.length > 0) {
      productJson.forEach((product) => {
        const sectionId = product.id.replace("ProductJson-", "shopify-section-");
        const thumbnails = document.querySelectorAll('#'+ sectionId + ' img[src*="/cdn/"]');
        if (thumbnails.length > 1) {
          const productObject = JSON.parse(product.innerHTML);
          const variantImages = this._createVariantImage(productObject);
          // need to check variants > 1
          if (productObject.variants.length > 1) {
            thumbnails.forEach((thumbnail) => {
              thumbnail.addEventListener('click', (e) =>
                this._updateVariant(e, sectionId, productObject, variantImages),
              );
            });
          }
        }
      });
    }
  },
};
if (document.readyState !== 'loading') {
  selectVariantByClickingImage._selectVariant();
} else {
  document.addEventListener(
    'DOMContentLoaded',
    selectVariantByClickingImage._selectVariant(),
  );
}
  1. Click Save.

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