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CSS

Posted by MUZ140770 Selestino Gama
MUZ140770 Selestino Gama
4,980 Points

CSS Slider

Hey guys, i am i want to build a simple HTML and css image and text slider which will have the image to the left and the text or description of the image on its right side.

Thanx in advance for those who will help.

5 Answers

Jacob McKinney
Jacob McKinney
6,796 Points

You're probably going to need more than CSS to make this slider. You can float two containers next to each other to provide the look you're going for, but to change what is in those containers or to move a duplicate set of containers into view, you'll need something like jQuery to perform the animation and then you'll use some logic to hide, show, slide in, etc the containers. Take a look at http://api.jquery.com/animate/ for some more help.

MUZ140770 Selestino Gama
MUZ140770 Selestino Gama
4,980 Points
MUZ140770 Selestino Gama
MUZ140770 Selestino Gama
4,980 Points

That is very true. But here i was thinking of a simple slider with forward arrow for next and one for prev nothing much fancy.

Jacob McKinney
Jacob McKinney
6,796 Points
Jacob McKinney
Jacob McKinney
6,796 Points

You'll probably use show/hide then:

http://api.jquery.com/show/ http://api.jquery.com/hide/

Have all of your containers set to display: none, except for the first container, in your css and use .show to show the correct container as the user presses the arrow and use .hide to hide the currently visible one. 

<script>
 $(document).ready(function() {
   var containerShown = 1;
   var maxContainer = 2;

   $('#nextBtn').on("click", function() {
      $('.myContainer').hide();
      var nextContainer = containerShown + 1;
      if(nextContainer > maxContainer) {
         nextContainer = 1;
      } 
      $('#container'+nextContainer).show();
   });
 });
</script>

<div>
   <div id="prevBtn"></div>
   <div class="myContainer" id="container1"></div>
   <div class="myContainer" id="container2" style="display: none;"></div>
   <div id="nextBtn"><div>
</div>
MUZ140770 Selestino Gama
MUZ140770 Selestino Gama
4,980 Points
MUZ140770 Selestino Gama
MUZ140770 Selestino Gama
4,980 Points

This is cool, however i was thinking of using a clean css and html slider.

Erin Manahan
Erin Manahan
20,413 Points
Erin Manahan
Erin Manahan
20,413 Points

I think this workshop would help you. Maybe use Jacob's suggestion for styling your divs and then apply what you make in the workshop to the first div, with the heading going in the second div.