Not a single popular and frequently visited site is complete without a slider. It increases the visitor’s interest in the content, focuses on the selected material. It is a block of slides that replace each other after a certain time interval. Sliders written in jQuery have different functionalities: the simplest ones work only in sequential viewing mode, complex ones allow you to scroll the carousel manually, and slider elements contain links with a full description of the product.
Some plugins are integrated directly into the page code, others are connected to the content management system. The developer adjusts the slide switching time, the effects of changing elements, adds new images, etc.
Sliders
All sliders work in a similar way: files with styles and dynamics are connected, jQuery, CSS settings are edited. The plugin works after the necessary classes appear in the tags of the necessary block.
Ready-made sliders on jQuery speed up the development process and subsequent connection. They all differ in design, number of effects, but they work almost the same.
- Switching elements is carried out horizontally or vertically.
- Slides are changed automatically or by clicking on the corresponding controllers. Simple adaptive jQuery sliders provide the ability to scroll through slides on mobile devices.
- It is possible to hide pagination or arrows, add your own elements.
- The slider can be stopped when you hover over the image that appears.
Distractful
This is a simple example of a ready-made jQuery slider. The default is:
- automatic slide switch;
- of the elements - only pagination, arrows are hidden, but can be included later;
- the carousel stop effect is off;
- adapted for mobile devices.
If the plugin was not connected correctly, a message appears in the debugging console with a recommendation to include the jQuery file.
Neoslide
An example jQuery slider from Chinese developers contains only 2 files: JavaScript and CSS. To connect in the right place on the block, the following code is indicated:
<div class="banner-wrap"> <div class="banner"> <ul class="banner-img"> <li><img /></li> <li><img /></li> <li><img /></li> </ul> <div class="top"><p></p></div> <ul class="list"> <li class="curr"></li> </ul> <img class="prew-img" /> </div>
Before the closing body tag, the slider is activated using the following entry:
$(function() { $('.banner').neoslide(); });
By default, the slider has the following dimensions: 1390 px wide and 450 px high. Switch delay time is 400 milliseconds, pagination is enabled.
Hslider
It differs from previous jQuery-sliders in that it contains more files. In addition to the main JavaScript file, there are style files, an image loading script.
Connection:
<div class="hsldr-container"> <figure> <img src="images/image1.jpg" /> <figcaption>Car in the snow</figcaption> </figure> <figure> <img src="images/Image2.jpg" /> <figcaption>People surfing</figcaption> </figure> </div> <script src="js/jquery-2.2.1.min.js"></script> <script src="js/imagesloaded.pkgd.min.js"></script> <script src="js/jquery.hslider.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> $( document ).ready(function() { $( ".hsldr-container" ).hslider({ navBar: true, auto: true, delay: 4000 }); }); </script>
Sleek slider
Sleek Slider is a very lightweight jQuery background slider, it weighs only 2 MB. For connection, links to the latest version of jQuery and SleekSlider are entered.
<script src="//code.jquery.com/jquery-latest-version.min.js"></script> <script src="javascripts/sleekslider.min.js"></script>
The slider supports svg images for left and right arrow arrows.
<div class="svg-wrap"> <svg width="64" height="64" viewBox="0 0 64 64"> <path id="arrow-left" d="M46.077 55.738c0.858 0.867 0.858 2.266 0 3.133s-2.243 0.867-3.101 0l-25.056-25.302c-0.858-0.867-0.858-2.269 0-3.133l25.056-25.306c0.858-0.867 2.243-0.867 3.101 0s0.858 2.266 0 3.133l-22.848 23.738 22.848 23.738z" /> </svg> <svg width="64" height="64" viewBox="0 0 64 64"> <path id="arrow-right" d="M17.919 55.738c-0.858 0.867-0.858 2.266 0 3.133s2.243 0.867 3.101 0l25.056-25.302c0.858-0.867 0.858-2.269 0-3.133l-25.056-25.306c-0.858-0.867-2.243-0.867-3.101 0s-0.858 2.266 0 3.133l22.848 23.738-22.848 23.738z" /> </svg> </div>
To embed the HTML structure, the sleekslider, slide active bg-1, slide-container, slide-content classes are used.
<div class="sleekslider"> <div class="slide active bg-1"> <div class="slide-container"> <div class="slide-content"> <h1>Slide 1 Content Here</h1> </div> </div> </div> <div class="slide bg-2"> <div class="slide-container"> <div class="slide-content"> <h1>Slide 2 Some Content Here</h1> </div> </div> </div> <div class="slide bg-3"> <div class="slide-container"> <div class="slide-content"> <h1>Slide 3 Content Here</h1> </div> </div> </div> <div class="slide bg-4"> <div class="slide-container"> <div class="slide-content"> <h1>Slide 4 Some Content Here</h1> </div> </div> </div> <div class="slide bg-5"> <div class="slide-container"> <div class="slide-content"> <h1>Slide 5 Content Here</h1> </div> </div> </div> <a href="https://www.jqueryscript.net/tags.php?/Navigation/">Navigation</a> Arrows with <a href="https://www.jqueryscript.net/tags.php?/Thumbnail/">Thumbnail</a> <nav class="nav-split"> <a class="prev" href=""> <span class="icon-wrap"><svg class="icon" width="22" height="22" viewBox="0 0 64 64"> <use xlink:href="#arrow-left" /> </svg></span> <div> <h3>test</h3> <img alt="Previous thumb"/> </div> </a> <a class="next" href=""> <span class="icon-wrap"><svg class="icon" width="22" height="22" viewBox="0 0 64 64"> <use xlink:href="#arrow-right" /> </svg></span> <div> <h3>test</h3> <img alt="Next thumb"/> </div> </a> </nav> <nav class="pagination"> <span class="current"></span> <span></span> <span></span> <span></span> <span></span> </nav> <nav class="tabs"> <div class="tab-container"> <ul> <li class="current"><a href="#"><span>01</span> Slide</a></li> <li><a href="#"><span>02</span> Slide</a></li> <li><a href="#"><span>03</span> Slide</a></li> <li><a href="#"><span>04</span> Slide</a></li> <li><a href="#"><span>05</span> Slide</a></li> </ul> </div> </nav> </div>
In addition to the usual way to switch slides with arrows, there is the possibility of turning the mouse over the corresponding tabs. This block is located at the bottom of the slider, and the nav tag with the tabs class is specified in the code.
It is noteworthy that when you click on the arrows before moving to the next tab, a thumbnail appears. It is a clickable element and is also intended for switching.
The carousel is initialized as follows:
$(document).ready(function(){ $('.sleekslider').sleekslider({ thumbs: ['1.jpg', '2.jpg', '3.jpg','4.jpg','5.jpg'], labels:['Slide 1', 'Slide 2', 'Slide 3', 'Slide 4', 'Slide 5'], speed: 6000
In this example, the speed is set to 6 seconds, carousel elements are images 1.jpg - 5.jpg, the names of the tabs are Slide 1 - Slide 5.
Paw carousel
The full-screen jQuery slider weighs only 6 kilobytes, there is the ability to connect multiple carousels on one page. PaW is displayed on different screens, while it is possible to crop items when reaching certain screen sizes. The insertion of not only pictures, but also video is supported. It works in all popular browsers, Internet Explorer 7+ is supported.
To activate, you must connect all files, including styles, and call:
$(function(){ $('.paw-carousel').(args);
The arguments to the pawCarousel method specify the values:
- pawCarousel - the name of each carousel item, by default - paw-carousel-item;
- carouselNavItemCls - names of pagination elements, by default - paw-carousel-nav-item;
- activeCls is responsible for displaying pagination on the page; initially it is active;
- animSpeed sets the slideshow switching speed.
Plugin wrappers have the classes paw-carousel-wrap> paw-carousel> paw-carousel-items-wrap, and each element is paw-carousel-items. Arrows are designated as paw-carousel-prev and paw-carousel-next, and the pagination block is nav.paw-carousel-thumbs> ul> paw-carousel-nav-item.
Slick
Slick Slider is a functional jQuery slider plugin with a wide range of features.
Has more than 10 display modes:
- filling the entire width of the parent block;
- the parent block is divided into parts, the number of sub-blocks is indicated in the settings;
- slider elements can have different widths;
- highlighting the active slide by increasing the size;
- using images as slider elements;
- auto play;
- add and remove slides using the user interface;
- filtration;
- display the active slide on another screen;
- Switch slides from right to left.
Style file connection:
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="slick/slick.css"/> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="slick/slick-theme.css"/>
JavaScript connection:
<script type="text/javascript" src="//code.jquery.com/jquery-1.11.0.min.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//code.jquery.com/jquery-migrate-1.2.1.min.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="slick/slick.min.js"></script>
Initialization:
$(document).ready(function(){ $('.your-class').slick({ setting-name: setting-value }); });
Your-class is the class of the parent slider block.
Settings:
- Arrows is responsible for activating the navigation arrows. The default is true.
- Autoplay is set to false by default and controls infinite slide playback.
- Using autoplaySpeed, the speed is set, initially it is 3000.
- CssEase defines how slideshow animations switch.
- To display pagination, you must set the value dots: true.
- DotsClass sets a class for a pagination container.
- To scroll through the slides with the mouse, true is specified in the draggable settings.
- When you hover over an element, the slider movement is stopped using the pauseOnFocus value, and with the click, focusOnSelect.
- Infinite - loop the slide.
- To be able to scroll through slides on mobile devices, the value swipe: true is used.
- If necessary, CSS animation effects are disabled using useCSS false and useTransform false.
- The slider can be not only horizontal, but also vertical. For this, vertical true is used.
- Change the order of changing slides from right to left - rtl: true.
bxSlider
Responsive jQuery image slider with lots of options.
- Adapts to any device.
- Slides are changed horizontally and vertically.
- There is a mode of fading.
- Inside the slides can be video, image, any HTML content.
- Swipe is supported on touch screens.
- Slide change effects implemented using CSS.
- Support for Firefox, Chrome, Safari, iOS, Android, IE7 +.
To get started, the archive is downloaded from the official site, the necessary files are connected. The slider wrapper must have a bxslider class. JQuery slider code:
<script>jQuery(document).ready(function(){ jQuery('.bxslider').bxSlider(); });</script>
Plugin Properties:
- Mode sets the way to change slides. Could be 'horizontal', 'vertical', 'fade'.
- Using the speed method, the speed of the slide change is adjusted.
- Indents between slides are set using the slideMargin method.
- The randomStart property has a default value of false and means that the slider starts from the first slide. If set to true, the initial slide will be selected randomly.
- It is possible to add an additional tag for the wrapper container using the slideSelector method. You can add a class to this tag using pagerSelector.
- Looping is done using the infiniteLoop: true property.
- If you plan to use a slider whose elements are images, you can add captions. This is done through captions: true, and the value itself is taken from the title attribute.
- To stop the slider on hovering, tickerHover: true is specified.
- If any of the slides contains a video, its appearance on the page must be activated via video: true. But before that, connect the plugins / jQuery.fitvids.js script.
- Transitions between slides are done using CSS or using the easing plugin. UseCSS: true means that styles will be used, and false means a plugin.
- To display indicators that display the number of layers, you must set pager: true. This information can be displayed in two versions: by index or as 1/5. The stop of the first method is set as pagerType: 'full', the second - pagerType: 'short'. A slash is used as a separator, but you can specify any character using pagerShortSeparator.
CaroufredSel
The horizontal slider on jQuery allows you to organize both a traditional slider and a carousel. It differs in that it does not impose its controls on the developer.
The official site provides extensive documentation. The plugin is activated by analogy with others: all files are connected, the script is initialized at the bottom of the code, settings are indicated in the arguments.
Setup:
- infinite determines whether the slider should be infinite;
- direction is responsible for the direction of scrolling, takes the value left or right;
- width sets the width of the elements;
- align aligns elements;
- cookie remembers the current position of the slider.
Cloud carousel
In addition to traditional slide switch control methods, you can scroll with the mouse wheel.
Slides are placed on the selected field, its sizes are set in the settings by the xPos and yPos properties. It also indicates the classes of arrows left and right and a description of the slider.
Elastislide
It implements several options for the carousel slider, is adaptive.
To get started, you need to get files from GitHub, connect to the page. You can connect images dynamically using PHP.
var $items = $('<li><a href="#"><img src="images/large/1.jpg" alt="image01" /></a></li><li><a href="#"><img src="images/large/2.jpg" alt="image01" /></a></li>'); $('#carousel').append($items).elastislide( 'add', $items );
Orientation sets the switching method: vertically or horizontally. Speed is responsible for the speed of the slide change, the default value is 500. The minimum number of slides in the carousel block is set to minItems. If you plan to use only images as elements, this can be written in the imgSizeItemSelector property. The first slide has an index of 0, which by default is the starting element. By setting the desired index, the order is changed. Auto switch is recorded as autoSlide: true. The margins from the image are specified in the margin property, the border width is border.
jCarousel Lite
It occupies a worthy place among the popular plugins. This is a powerful gallery that has many settings, suitable for any task. Minimum browser requirements: IE 6, Firefox 3, Opera 9.5, Safari 3.
Parameters:
- btnPrev and btnNext indicate the class or ID of the toggle button;
- mouse wheel scrolling is set to mouseWheel;
- vertical change of slides is carried out using the vertical property;
- circular - infinite scrolling;
- the number of visible slides in the block is indicated in visible;
- start records the order of the element the gallery starts with.
3D carousel
The slider does not have wide functionality.
Its main advantage is its unusual design. The central element has the largest size, all the others on the right and left are smaller. The farther the slide from the center, the smaller it is. The carousel is not stylized, all effects are set using JavaScript.
Feature carousel
It is designed so that the current element has an increased size, the arrows are located on the sides below the rest of the elements. The previous and next slides have a transparency of 0.5.
The widget is suitable for the presentation of key materials. It is cross-browser, has flexible settings. The layout is customizable using jQuery and CSS. Allows you to display only one carousel per page.
- For the main block inside which the slider is contained, id carousel is used.
- The carousel-feature class is for wrapping each item.
- The carousel-caption class is for the text of the current slide.
- The carousel-right and carousel-left classes are for arrows.
Activation:
$('#carousel').featureCarousel({});
Rcarousel
For Rcarousel, unlike other plugins, a whole site is dedicated.
The developer provides a detailed description of the slider features, talks about updates in the new version. However, the last update occurred in 2012, during this time there have been many changes, some functions may not meet modern requirements.
It works in the following browsers:
- Internet Explorer 7+;
- Firefox 3.0+;
- Chrome
- Opera 10.10+;
- Safari 4.0.5+.
Configurations;
- visible - indicates the number of visible elements;
- step - the number of elements that change with each click;
- width - the width of each element of the carousel;
- speed - slide change speed;
- orientation - orientation can be vertical and horizontal.
You can add navigation elements by adding tags with id ui-carousel-next and ui-carousel-prev. If you need to attach navigation arrows with your classes and tags, these values are indicated in navigation.
navigation: { prev: ".someFancyClass", next: "#andFunnyID" }
Now the button for switching to the previous element should have the someFancyClass class, the next one - andFunnyID tag.
Pure CSS3 slider
The functionality is built entirely on CSS. To start using it, you need to connect a single stylesheet and add such a structure.
<div id="slider"> <div class="slides">
<div class="slider"><div class="legend"></div> <div class="content"> <div class="content-txt"> <h1> Your title </h1> <h2> Your description </h2> </div> </div> <div class="images"> <img src="ImagePath/ImageName.jpg"> </div> </div> <div class="slider"><div class="legend"></div> <div class="content"> <div class="content-txt"> <h1> Your title </h1> <h2> Your description </h2> </div> </div> <div class="images"> <img src="ImagePath/ImageName.jpg"> </div> </div> <div class="slider"><div class="legend"></div> <div class="content"> <div class="content-txt"> <h1> Your title </h1> <h2> Your description </h2> </div> </div> <div class="images"> <img src="ImagePath/ImageName.jpg"> </div> </div> <div class="slider"><div class="legend"></div> <div class="content"> <div class="content-txt"> <h1> Your title </h1> <h2> Your description </h2> </div> </div> <div class="images"> <img src="ImagePath/ImageName.jpg"> </div> </div> </div> </div>
There is no way in this plugin to modify the settings, as it happens in JavaScript plugins. To select one of several animation methods, different files are connected. To slide elements from left to right - slider-ltr.css, from right to left - slider-ttb.css. Horizontal slide change from top to bottom is done using slider-btt.css, from bottom to top - slider-simp.css.
Conclusion
All plugins work in a similar way. To activate, you need to add the appropriate class to the block wrapper. The same thing is done to display arrows or pagination. The plugin is initialized before the closing block tag in the following form:
$( " id " ).( );
In simple sliders there is no way to fine-tune the functionality - the user adds basic values, changes the speed of changing elements, etc. In complex plug-ins, you can change everything: from the method of changing slides to the orientation of the display of elements.