jCider

An extensive and responsive jQuery carousel plugin that will slide your world.

This plugin was written as a fun personal project when I was a kid. It has not been in development since 2015.

Installation

Link jQuery, jcider.css, and jcider.min.js in your html file, using the CDN or otherwise.

<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/jcider@3.0.7/jcider.css"/>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/jcider@3.0.7/jcider.min.js"></script>

Package Managers

bower install --save jcider

npm install --save jcider

Usage

HTML

The carousel uses a 3 layer structure in the HTML document.

<div class="slider">
    <ul>
        <li>First Slide</li>
        <li>Second Slide</li>
        <li>Third Slide</li>
    </ul>
</div>

All your content for each slide should go inside the innermost elements, as illustrated above.

For the rest of the docs we will refer to the outermost element as the wrapper, the middle element as the slider and the innermost elements as the slides.

CSS

The styles in the jcider.css file are the default styles that come with the plugin. You can customize the appearence and positioning as per your convinience in the jcider.css file. Please refer to the file for information on the selectors.

JS

$(document).ready(function(){
    // Make sure to call jcider on the wrapper (outermost) element
    $('yourWrapperElementHere').jcider();
});

Settings

You can pass in multiple options as arguments for the .jcider() function.

$('yourWrapperElementHere').jcider({
    looping: true, // For looping
    visibleSlides: 1, // Visible no. of slides
    variableWidth: false, // For variable width
    variableHeight: true, // For variable height
    fading: false, // For fading/sliding effect
    easing: 'cubic-bezier(.694, .0482, .335, 1)', // For easing
    transitionDuration: 400, // Duration of slide transition
    autoplay: false, // Duh...
    slideDuration: 3000, // Duration between each slide change in autoplay
    controls: true, // For visibility of nav-arrows
    controlsWrapper: 'div.jcider-nav', // Element for nav wrapper
    controlsLeft: ['span.jcider-nav-left', ''], // Element for nav-left 
    controlsRight: ['span.jcider-nav-right', ''], // Element for nav-right
    pagination: true, // For visibility of pagination
    paginationWrapper: 'div.jcider-pagination', // Element for pagination wrapper
    paginationPoint: 'div.jcider-pagination-point' // Element for pagination points
});

Setting Name	Type	Description	Default
looping	boolean	Selects if looping is there or not.	true
visibleSlides	integer	Selects the number of slides visble at a time.	1
variableWidth	boolean	Selects if the wrapper should resize with the slide width or not.	false
variableHeight	boolean	Selects if the wrapper should resize with the slide height or not.	true
fading	boolean	Selects the type of transition. true is fading. false is sliding.	false
easing	string	Selects the type of easing to be used for CSS animations.	'cubic-bezier(.694, .0482, .335, 1)'
transitionDuration	integer	The duration taken to transition from one slide to another, in milliseconds.	400
autoplay	boolean	Chooses whether automatic transition between slides is on or off. true is on.	false
slideDuration	integer	The duration between change of slides, in milliseconds. Only applicable if autoplay is on.	3000
controls	boolean	Chooses whether the navigation controls are visible or not. true is visible.	true
controlsWrapper	string	Selector for the nav-wrapper. Element followed by an optional id or multiple classes. Multiple classes must be separated by periods.	'div.jcider-nav'
controlsLeft	array > string * 2	Selector for left button for nav. Array containing two strings. The first string is the Element followed by an optional id or multiple classes. Multiple classes must be separated by periods. The second string is optional content.	['span.jcider-nav-left', '']
controlsRight	array > string * 2	Selector for right button for nav. Array containing two strings. The first string is the Element followed by an optional id or multiple classes. Multiple classes must be separated by periods.	['span.jcider-nav-right', '']
pagination	boolean	Chooses whether the pagination is visible or not. true is visible.	true
paginationWrapper	string	Selector for pagination-wrapper. Element followed by an optional id or multiple classes. Multiple classes must be separated by periods.	'div.jcider-pagination'
paginationPoints	string	Selector for pagination-points. Element followed by an optional id or multiple classes. Multiple classes must be separated by periods.	'span.jcider-pagination-point'

Using Multiple carousels in one page

You can use multiple carousels in one page with ease. There may be two or more sliders with the same class.

For example, your html would be-

<div class="slider">
    <ul>
        <li>First Slide.</li>
        <li>Second Slide.</li>
        <li>Third Slide.</li>
    </ul>
</div>

<div class="slider">
    <ul>
        <li>First slide.</li>
        <li>Second slide.</li>
        <li>Third slide.</li>
    </ul>
</div>

<div class="another-slider">
    <ul>
        <li>First Slide.</li>
        <li>Second Slide.</li>
        <li>Third Slide.</li>
    </ul>
</div>

<div class="another-slider">
    <ul>
        <li>First Slide.</li>
        <li>Second Slide.</li>
        <li>Third Slide.</li>
    </ul>
</div>

Your JSwould be-

$('.slider').jcider();
$('.another-slider').jcider();

Functions

jcider.moveLeft()

Transition towards the left.

$(document).ready(function() {
    $('# main').jcider({
        //Some options
    });

    $('button#left').click(function() {
        $('# main').jcider.moveLeft();
    });
});

jcider.moveRight()

Transition towards the right.

$(document).ready(function() {
    $('# main').jcider({
        //Some options
    });

    $('button# right').click(function() {
        $('# main').jcider.moveRight();
    });
});

jcider.moveTo(index)

Transition to slide at index (starting from 0).

$(document).ready(function() {
    $('# main').jcider({
        //Some options
    });

    $('button# home').click(function() {
        $('# main').jcider.moveTo(0);
    });
});

jcider.play()

Enable autoplay.

$(document).ready(function() {
    $('# main').jcider({
        //Some options
    });

    $('button# play').click(function() {
        $('# main').jcider.play();
    });
});

jcider.pause()

Disable autoplay.

$(document).ready(function() {
    $('# main').jcider({
        //Some options
    });

    $('button# pause').click(function() {
        $('# main').jcider.pause();
    });
});

jcider.togglePlay()

Toggle autoplay.

$(document).ready(function() {
    $('# main').jcider({
        //Some options
    });

    $('button# toggle').click(function() {
        $('# main').jcider.togglePlay();
    });
});

jcider.hideControls()

Hide controls.

$(document).ready(function() {
    $('# main').jcider({
        //Some options
    });

    $('button# hide').click(function() {
        $('# main').jcider.hideControls();
    });
});

jcider.showControls()

Show controls.

$(document).ready(function() {
    $('# main').jcider({
        //Some options
    });

    $('button# show').click(function() {
        $('# main').jcider.showControls();
    });
});

jcider.toggleControls()

Toggle controls.

$(document).ready(function() {
    $('# main').jcider({
        //Some options
    });

    $('button# show').click(function() {
        $('# main').jcider.showControls();
    });
});

jcider.hidePagination()

Hide pagination.

$(document).ready(function() {
    $('# main').jcider({
        //Some options
    });

    $('button# hide').click(function() {
        $('# main').jcider.hidePagination();
    });
});

jcider.showPagination()

Show pagination.

$(document).ready(function() {
    $('# main').jcider({
        //Some options
    });

    $('button# show').click(function() {
        $('# main').jcider.showPagination();
    });
});

jcider.togglePagination()

Toggle pagination.

$(document).ready(function() {
    $('# main').jcider({
        //Some options
    });

    $('button# show').click(function() {
        $('# main').jcider.togglePagination();
    });
});

Dependencies

jQuery 1.x

License

Released under The MIT License.