PictureSlider allows you to create an unobtrusive and easy-to-control picture preview box, controlled by two arrows on the sides, or by keyboard. Optional caption is displayed in a panel at the bottom of the box.
- Download this repository.
- Download mootools.
- Import
mootools.js,src/picture-slider.jsandsrc/picture-slider.cssin your HTML file as in the example below.
A div element can be turned into a picture slider by creating an instance of the PictureSlider class, supplying an array of entries describing the image source and an optional caption:
<head>
...
<script src="mootools.js"></script>
<script src="picture-slider/src/picture-slider.js"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="picture-slider/src/picture-slider.css" />
</head>
...
<div id="picture-slider" style="width: 900px; height: 600px"></div>
<script>
document.addEvent('domready', function() {
var pc = new PictureSlider($('picture-slider'), [
{
src: 'image1.jpg',
caption: 'Description of image1.',
},
{
src: 'image2.jpg',
caption: 'Description of image2.',
},
]);
});
</script>
- The size of the box is set by the width and height style attributes of the div.
- If the caption key is left out, the bottom panel is not shown.
In addition to images, you can also supply HTML content:
var pc = new PictureSlider($('picture-slider'), [
{
content: 'Text to appear inside the frame.',
}
]);
- By default, the content is centered in the vertical. For top alignment,
append 'center: false,' below the
contentattribute.
The images can be switched by the left and right keyboard arrows.
The picture slider can be styled by amending or extending the CSS defined in src/picture-slider.css.
Options can be supplied as the third argument to the constructor. The options available are described in the reference below.
var pc = new PictureSlider($('picture-slider', [
{
src: 'image1.jpg',
caption: 'Description of image1.',
},
{
src: 'image2.jpg',
caption: 'Description of image2.',
},
], {
arrows: 'small',
duration: 'long',
center: false,
controls: {
opacity: 0.5,
duration: 500,
},
caption: {
opacity: 0.5,
duration: 'long',
},
text: {
duration: 500,
},
});
- 0.7.4 (2021-08-01):
- Fixed freezing when mouse moves out of the element.
- 0.7.3 (2021-08-01):
- Fixed switching of captions.
- 0.7.2 (2021-08-01):
- Fixed resizing and scaling of content.
- 0.7.1 (2021-07-31):
- Fixed image resizing.
- 0.7 (2021-07-31):
- Support for touch events.
- Support for resizing.
- Fixed keyboard events in Chrome.
- 0.6 (2012-02-20):
- Fixed a number of issues with IE7.
- 0.5 (2012-02-20):
- Fixed interference between multiple picture sliders on a single page.
- 0.4 (2012-02-03):
- Fixed image scaling.
- Fixed vertical centering of frame content.
- 0.3 (2012-02-03):
- Fixed interference between multiple picture sliders on a single page.
- 0.2 (2012-02-03):
- Fixed horizontal centering of frame content.
- 0.1 (2012-02-02):
- Initial release.
Animated picture slider.
var ps = new PictureSlider(obj, images[, options])
- obj - (object) Object which is turned into a picture slider.
divis recommended. Dimensions of the picture slider are determined by the dimensions of this object. - images - (array) Array of objects describing the images. The objects
can have to following properties:
- src - (string, optional) The image source.
- caption - (string, optional) Caption to be shown in the bottom panel.
- link - (string, optional) Make the entire frame a hyperlink pointing to link.
- content - (string, optional) HTML content of the frame.
- center - (boolean: defaults to
options.center) Enable vertical centering.
- options - (object, optional) See below.
- arrows - (string: defaults to 'medium') Size of the arrows. Can be one of:
- 'small' - Small arrows.
- 'medium' - Medium-sized arrows.
- 'large' - Large arrows.
- caption (object) An object with the following properties:
- opacity - (number: defaults to 0.8) Opacity of the caption.
- duration - (number: defaults to 'short') The duration of the caption height transition effect in ms. Also see below.
- center - (boolean: defaults to true) Enable vertical centering.
- controls (object) An object with the following properties:
- opacity - (number: defaults to 0.8) Opacity of the controls (the left and right arrow).
- duration - (number: defaults to 'short') The duration of the controls fade effect in ms. Also see below.
- duration - (number: defaults to 'short') The duration of the slide effect in ms. Also see below.
- text (string) An object with the following properties:
- duration - (number: defaults to 200) The duration of the caption text fade effect in ms. Also see below.
The duration property can also be one of:
- 'short' - 250ms
- 'normal' - 500ms
- 'long' - 1000ms
Fired when the slider is switched to another image.
onChange(image)
- image - (object) The image object as supplied to the PictureSlider constructor.
var pc = new PictureSlide(obj, images);
pc.addEvent('change', function(image) {
if (image.src)
console.log('Switched to the image ' + image.src);
});
Switch to the image number n.
pc.switchTo(n);
- n - (number) The index of the image starting from 0.
- (object) The image object.
var pc = new PictureSlider(obj, [
{'src': 'img1.jpg', caption: 'First image.' },
{'src': 'img2.jpg', caption: 'Second image.'},
]);
pc.switchTo(1) // Switch to the second image.
Switch to the image on the left.
pc.left()
- (object) The object of the image on the left.
Switch to the image on the right.
pc.right()
- (object) The object of the image on the right.