jQuery to Auto Image Scroller
In this first jQuery tutorial we will develop a program that auto image scroller.
There are many used of Auto Image Scroller on the website. You can use this jQuery based image scroller to display a set of images in it.
The jQuery framework will then take care of automatically scrolling the images. It give very good looking presentation to the user. Your website user will find this a very good as compared to simple css and JavaScript based image scroller.
It also loads fast and gives good performance.
Steps to develop the program
Step 1:
Create a new file (simple_carousel.html) and add the following code into
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en-us">
<head>
<title>jCarousel Examples</title>
<link href="../style.css" rel="stylesheet"
type="text/css" />
<script type="text/javascript"
src="script/jquery-1.2.3.pack.js">
</script>
<script type="text/javascript"
src="script/jquery.jcarousel.pack.js">
</script>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
href="style/jquery.jcarousel.css"/>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
href="style/skin.css" />
<script type="text/javascript">
function mycarousel_initCallback(carousel)
{
// Disable autoscrolling if the user
//clicks the prev or next button.
carousel.buttonNext.bind('click', function() {
carousel.startAuto(0);
});
carousel.buttonPrev.bind('click', function() {
carousel.startAuto(0);
});
// Pause autoscrolling if the user moves
//with the cursor over the clip.
carousel.clip.hover(function() {
carousel.stopAuto();
}, function() {
carousel.startAuto();
});
};
jQuery(document).ready(function() {
jQuery('#mycarousel').jcarousel({
auto: 2,
wrap: 'last',
initCallback: mycarousel_initCallback
});
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="wrap">
<ul id="mycarousel" class="jcarousel-skin-tango">
<li>
<img src="images/w1.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="i1" />
</li>
<li>
<img src="images/w2.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="i2" />
</li>
<li>
<img src="images/w3.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="i3" />
</li>
<li>
<img src="images/w4.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="i4" />
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</body>
</html> |
Program explanation:
The following code includes the jQuery JavaScript library file:
| <script type="text/javascript" src="script/jquery-1.2.3.pack.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="script/jquery.jcarousel.pack.js"></script> |
Function is called
| jQuery('#mycarousel').jcarousel( |
having attributes
auto: 2,
wrap: 'last',
initCallback: mycarousel_initCallback
The image scroll in 2 sec and onclick and hover scroll the images is pause.
When you run the program in browser it will look like following screen shot:
Check online demo of the application
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