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tiny-slider 2.0

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Tiny slider for all purposes, inspired by Owl Carousel.
Demos
Tests
Can be tested on Firefox 12+, Chrome 15+, Safari 4+, Opera 12.1+, IE8+.
Note: some features may need a manual test.

Previous versions: v1, v0

Contents

+ What's new
+ Features
+ Install
+ Usage
+ Options
+ Responsive options
+ Methods
+ Custom Events
+ Fallback
+ Browser Support
+ Support
+ License

What's new

  • Using % instead of px (No more recalculation of each slide width on window resize)
  • Using CSS Mediaqueries if supported
  • Save browser capbility values to localStorage, so they will not be recheck again until browser get upgraded or user clear the localStorage manuelly.
  • More options available for responsive. (Start from v2.1.0, issue 53)
  • Insert controls and nav before slider instead of after (issue 4)
  • Move autoplay button out of nav container. (Start from v2.1.0)
  • Some selector changes in tiny-slider.scss

Migrating to v2

  • Update controls and / or nav styles based on their position changes.
  • Update the slider selectors accordingly if used in your CSS or JS.
  • Update styles related to autoplay button.

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Features

  • carousel / gallery
  • responsive
  • fixed width
  • vertical slider
  • gutter
  • edge padding (center)
  • loop
  • rewind (pull 10)
  • slide by
  • customize controls / nav
  • lazyload
  • autoplay
  • auto height
  • touch support
  • mouse drag (pull 32)
  • arrow keys
  • accessibility for people using keyboard navigation or screen readers (issue 4)
  • response to visibility changing (pull 19)
  • custom events
  • nested slider

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Install

bower install tiny-slider or npm install tiny-slider

Usage

1. Include tiny-slider

via cdnjs:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/tiny-slider/2.5.2/tiny-slider.css">

<!--[if (lt IE 9)]><script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/tiny-slider/2.5.2/min/tiny-slider.helper.ie8.js"></script><![endif]-->
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/tiny-slider/2.5.2/min/tiny-slider.js"></script>

<!-- NOTE: from v2.2.1 tiny-slider.js is no longer required to be in <body> -->

Or import it via webpack or rollup:

// yourScript.js
import { tns } from "path/to/tiny-slider/src/tiny-slider.module.js"
2. Add markup
<div class="my-slider">
  <div></div>
  <div></div>
  <div></div>
</div>
<!-- or ul.my-slider > li -->
3. Call tiny-slider
<script>
  var slider = tns({
    container: '.my-slider',
    items: 3,
    slideBy: 'page',
    autoplay: true
  });
  
  // NOTE: 
  // prior to v2.0.2, options "container", "controlsContainer", "navContainer" and "autoplayButton" still need to be DOM elements.
  // e.g. container: document.querySelector('.my-slider'),
</script>

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Options

Option Type Description
container Node | String Default: document.querySelector('.slider').
The slider container element or selector.
mode 'carousel' | 'gallery' Default: 'carousel'.
Controls animation behaviour.
With carousel everything slides to the side, while gallery uses fade animations and changes all slides at once.
axis 'horizontal' | 'vertical' Default: horizontal.
The axis of the slider.
items Integer Default: 1.
Number of slides being displayed in the viewport.
gutter Integer Default: 0.
Space between slides (in "px").
edgePadding Integer Default: 0.
Space on the outside (in "px").
fixedWidth Integer | false Default: false.
Controls width attribute of the slides.
slideBy Integer | 'page' Default: 1.
Number of slides going on one "click".
controls Boolean Default: true.
Controls the display and functionalities of controls components (prev/next buttons). If true, display the controls and add all functionalities.
controlsText (Text | Markup) Array Default: ['prev', 'next'].
Text or markup in the prev/next buttons.
controlsContainer Node | String | false Default: false.
The container element/selector around the prev/next buttons.
controlsContainer must have at least 2 child elements.
nav Boolean Default: true.
Controls the display and functionalities of nav components (dots). If true, display the nav and add all functionalities.
navContainer Node | String | false Default: false.
The container element/selector around the dots.
navContainer must have at least same number of children as the slides.
navAsThumbnails Boolean Default: false.
Indecate if the dots are thurbnails. If true, they will always be visible even when more than 1 slides displayed in the viewport.
arrowKeys Boolean Default: false.
Allows using arrow keys to switch slides.
speed Integer Default: 300.
Speed of the slide animation (in "ms").
autoplay Boolean Default: false.
Toggles the automatic change of slides.
autoplayTimeout Integer Default: 5000.
Time between 2 autoplay slides change (in "ms").
autoplayDirection 'forward' | 'backward' Default: 'forward'.
Direction of slide movement (ascending/descending the slide index).
autoplayText Array (Text | Markup) Default: ['start', 'stop'].
Text or markup in the autoplay start/stop button.
autoplayHoverPause Boolean Default: false.
Stops sliding on mouseover.
autoplayButton Node | String | false Default: false.
The customized autoplay start/stop button or selector.
autoplayButtonOutput Boolean Default: true.
Output autoplayButton markup when autoplay is true but a customized autoplayButton is not provided.
autoplayResetOnVisibility Boolean Default: true.
Pauses the sliding when the page is invisiable and resumes it when the page become visiable again. (Page Visibility API)
animateIn String Default: 'tns-fadeIn'.
Name of intro animation class.
animateOut String Default: 'tns-fadeOut'.
Name of outro animation class.
animateNormal String Default: 'tns-normal'.
Name of default animation class.
animateDelay Integer | false Default: false.
Time between each gallery animation (in "ms").
loop Boolean Default: true.
Moves to the first slide with the same direction when reaching the last slide.
rewind Boolean Default: false.
Moves to the first slide with the opposite direction when reaching the last slide.
autoHeight Boolean Default: false.
Height of slider container changes according to each slide's height.
responsive Map: {
 breakpoint: {
  key: value
 }
} | false
Default: false.
Breakpoint: Integer.
Defines options for different viewport widths (see Responsive Options).
lazyload Boolean Default: false.
Enables lazyloading images that are currently not viewed, thus saving bandwidth (see demo).
touch Boolean Default: true.
Activates input detection for touch devices.
mouseDrag Boolean Default: false.
Changing slides by dragging them.
nested "inner" | "outer" | false Default: false.
Difine the relationship between nested sliders. (see demo)
Make sure you run the inner slider first, otherwise the height of the inner slider container will be wrong.
freezable Boolean Default: true.
Indicate whether the slider will be frozen (controls, nav, autoplay and other functions will stop work) when all slides can be displayed in one page.
disable Boolean Default: false.
Disable slider.
startIndex Integer Default: 0.
The initial index of the slider.
onInit Function | false Default: false.
Callback to be run on initialization.

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Responsive options

The following options can be redefined in responsive field:
startIndex,
items,
slideBy,
speed,
autoHeight,
fixedWidth,
edgePadding,
gutter,
controls,
controlsText,
nav,
autoplay,
autoplayHoverPause,
autoplayResetOnVisibility,
autoplayText,
autoplayTimeout,
touch,
mouseDrag,
arrowKeys, disable.

<script>
  var slider = tns({
    container: '.my-slider',
    items: 1,
    responsive: {
      640: {
        edgePadding: 20,
        gutter: 20,
        items: 2
      },
      700: {
        gutter: 30
      },
      900: {
        items: 3
      }
    }
  });
</script>

NOTE:

  • fixedWidth can only be changed to different positive integers. It can't be changed to different data type, 0 or negtive integer. top↑

Methods

There are 2 ways to get slider information, both return info Object:

  1. getInfo method.
  2. Subscribe to an event.
// info Object
info = {
                container: container, // slider container
               slideItems: slideItems, // slides list
             navContainer: navContainer, // nav container
                 navItems: navItems, // dots list
        controlsContainer: controlsContainer, // controls container
              hasControls: hasControls, // indicate if controls exist
               prevButton: prevButton, // previous button
               nextButton: nextButton, // next button
                    items: items, // items on a page
                  slideBy: slideBy // items slide by
               cloneCount: cloneCount, // cloned slide count
               slideCount: slideCount, // original slide count
            slideCountNew: slideCountNew, // total slide count after initialization
                    index: index, // current index
              indexCached: indexCached, // previous index
               navCurrent: navCurrent, // current dot index
         navCurrentCached: navCurrentCached, // previous dot index
        visibleNavIndexes: visibleNavIndexes, // visible nav indexes
  visibleNavIndexesCached: visibleNavIndexesCached,
                    event: e || {}, // event object if available
};
getInfo
// get info object
var slider = tns(...);
slider.getInfo();

document.querySelector('.next-button').onclick = function () {
  // get slider info
  var info = slider.getInfo(),
      indexPrev = info.indexCached;
      indexCurrent = info.index;

  // update style based on index
  info.slideItems[indexPrev].classList.remove('active');
  info.slideItems[indexCurrent].classList.add('active');
};
goTo
// go to slides by number or keywords
var slider = tns(...);
slider.goTo(3);
slider.goTo('prev');
slider.goTo('next');
slider.goTo('first');
slider.goTo('last');

document.querySelector('.goto-button').onclick = function () {
  slider.goTo(3);
};
destroy
var slider = tns(...);
slider.destroy();

Custom Events

Available events include: indexChanged, transitionStart, transitionEnd, touchStart, touchMove and touchEnd.

var slider = tns(...);

var customizedFunction = function (info) {
  // direct access to info object
  console.log(info.event.type, info.container.id);
}

// bind function to event
slider.events.on('transitionEnd', customizedFunction);

// remove function binding
slider.events.off('transitionEnd', customizedFunction);

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Fallback

.no-js .your-slider { overflow-x: auto; }
.no-js .your-slider > div { float: none; }

Browser Support

Firefox 8+ ✓
Chrome 15+ ✓
Safari 4+ ✓
Opera 12.1+ ✓
IE 8+ ✓
Should be working on Chrome 4-14 as well, but I couldn't test it.

Support

Browserstack
Cdnjs
Images used in the demos are from https://unsplash.com/.

License

This project is available under the MIT license.

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