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JavaScript

Scrolling Carousel using jQuery Animate

I'm trying to make an image carousel/slider that automatically scrolls smoothly and loops using jQuery.

Here's an illustration: https://jsfiddle.net/T_Recks/aa43n7g0/

I tried adding it to a local development site (replacing the text and colored backgrounds with images) and it seems to work nicely. However, I'd like to make a version that scrolls right instead of left, but haven't been able to figure it out. I've tried changing ".append" to ".prepend" and playing with the margin changes, but no luck so far.

Is there anyone here familiar with javascript/jQuery that's able to suggest a solution?

2 Answers

"marginLeft: 200" instead of "-200" makes it go right.

It doesn't quite work right after that, but you can alter that now that it's going the right direction.

Thanks for the response! Yeah, I did technically manage to make it to move right by doing that, but it breaks the looping functionality and that's the point I'm stuck at (should have clarified).

For the curious, I asked the question on stackoverflow as well and someone responded with this solution, which I'm happy with: https://jsfiddle.net/T_Recks/fdxgq3fr/