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JavaScript

Mary O'Gorman
Mary O'Gorman
1,482 Points
Posted by Mary O'Gorman
Mary O'Gorman
1,482 Points

Scrolling tweets

Hi,

I am using Github: https://github.com/jasonmayes/Twitter-Post-Fetcher and jquery.flexslider.js. At the moment the tweets are fading in one by one, what I would like to do is have them scroll in. Does anyone know how I would go about this? Or would anyone have any other plugins they would recommend?

Jason Anello
Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,610 Points

Hi Mary,

Is this what you're using for the slider? http://www.woothemes.com/flexslider/

Are you putting each tweet in a slide and you want them to slide in instead of fade in?

Jason Desiderio
Jason Desiderio
21,811 Points
Jason Desiderio
Jason Desiderio
21,811 Points

Hey Mary,

If you are using the http://www.woothemes.com/flexslider/ then you have to specify the animation properties in the load function. Seems the two available animation types are fade or slide. The follow code below would change it to slide:

$(window).load(function() {
  $('.flexslider').flexslider({
    animation: "slide"
  });
});

1 Answer

Mary O'Gorman
Mary O'Gorman
1,482 Points
Mary O'Gorman
Mary O'Gorman
1,482 Points

Hi Jason,

I was using that, however I couldn't get it to scroll so I found this instead. http://logicbox.net/jquery/simplyscroll/horizontal.html#js

Images and text scroll across but I can't gt the tweets to scroll, at the moment the five tweets I have called and showing underneath each other instead of scrolling.

Jason Anello
Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,610 Points

If you're looking for that type of scrolling effect then flexslider probably won't work for you. As Jason Desiderio already noted, your only options are fade or slide.

Can you show us the output html of what you have so far for this scrolling part? Maybe also post your javascript code.