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JavaScript

Posted by Shaun Kelly
Shaun Kelly
35,560 Points

Automatic slideshow fade?

Hi guys,

I have created an automatic slideshow containing 3 images with the class "mySlides" these are placed inside of a div. My Jquery code is below...how would i add a fade to the images like this...http://www.jssor.com/slideshow/x-fade.html

$(document).ready(function(){
var slideIndex = 0;
carousel();

function carousel() {
    var i;
    var x = document.getElementsByClassName("mySlides");
    for (i = 0; i < x.length; i++) {
      x[i].style.display = "none";
    }
    slideIndex++;
    if (slideIndex > x.length) {slideIndex = 1}
    x[slideIndex-1].style.display = "block";
    setTimeout(carousel, 5000); // Change image every 2 seconds
}
});

Thanks in advance!

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,608 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,608 Points

Did you sign up on that site you linked to? It looks like you can build your own effects and download the code. Even without signing up, you can download the code for the demos. There's some really cool stuff there!

You didn't share your HTML or CSS, but assuming the images are all absolutely positioned over each other, and initially display: none, for just a simple crossfade you could do something like this:

$(function() {
    var slides = $(".mySlides");
    var slideIndex = 0;
    carousel();

    function carousel() {
        slides.eq(slideIndex).fadeOut(1000);
        slideIndex = ++slideIndex % slides.length;
        slides.eq(slideIndex).fadeIn(1000);
        setTimeout(carousel, 5000); // Change image every 5 seconds
    }
});