Page Slider

A little library to add CSS transitions between pages in a mobile web app.

Based on ccoenraets' PageSlider.

Installation

You can install PageSlider via bower :

bower install page-slider --save

Or via npm :

npm install page-slider --save

Then, you can link lib/page-slider.min.js and lib/page-slider.css on your page.

Note that PageSlider depends on jQuery, so you must load jQuery before PageSlider if you don't use any package manager.

If you want more details, you can look at the example.

Usage

// Create the slider instance
var slider = new PageSlider($('body'));
 
// Set the transition duration in ms (default: 300)
slider.setTransitionDurationMs(400);
 
// Disable slide transitions
slider.disableTransitions();
 
// Re-enable them
slider.enableTransitions();
 
// Slide in a new page
slider.slidePage($page);

API

PageSlider($container)

The constructor takes the container (a jQuery element) in parameter. This container will receive specific styles:

{
    height: 100%;
    width: 100%;
    overflow: hidden;
}

.setTransitionDuration(durationMs)

Set the transition duration in ms (default: 300)

.disableTransitions() / .enableTransitions()

Disable or enable CSS transitions. Can be useful on older devices.

.slidePageFrom($newPage, from, options)

Slide in a new page from the given origin.

• $newPage (jQuery element): New page to slide in. Will receive the page class.
• from (String): Origin of the transition ('left', 'right' or null for no transition)
• options (optional, object) :
  • beforeTransition (function): Called before the transition, but after the page is added to the DOM
  • afterTransition (function): Called after the transition and after the old page has been removed from the DOM. Takes a boolean in parameter (true the first time a page is added, false every other times)

// Example
slider.slidePageFrom($page, 'left', {
    beforeTransition: function () {
        console.log('before transition');
    },
    afterTransition: function (firstPage) {
        console.log('after transition');
        console.log('First slided page ? ' + firsPage);
    },
});

.slidePage($newPage, options)

Same methods as slidePageFrom but determine automatically the slide origin based on the history.

• First page slided : no transition (from === null)
• Next hash and previous hash are the same : back (from === 'left')
• Other cases : forward (from === 'right')

.getNextSlideOrigin()

It is possible to call this function just before calling slidePage to know which behaviour the newt transition will have. This function is based on the current hash and return 'left', 'right' or null (see slidePage for more infos).

Some usual issues

Scrollable pages

As stated above, PageSlider add some required style to your container (height: 100% and overflow: hidden). This style ensures that your fixed elements look nice during slides, but also prevents your page from being scrollable.

To circumvent this issue, you can add this CSS to your page immediate child to restore their scrolling behaviour :

{
    height: 100%;
    overflow-y: scroll;
}

You can look at a working example in the example folder.

Fixed elements on some devices

In the native browser of some android devices, the fixed elements don't follow their parent during css transitions. This can be a problem if you develop a mobile app based on webviews (a Phonegap based app, for example).

To avoid this problem, you may want to set your fixed elements to absolute positioning before the slide and revert them back to fixed positioning after the transition.

You can do that with the help of the transition hooks :

[data-fixed="fixed"] {
    position: fixed !important;
}
 
[data-fixed="absolute"] {
    position: absolute !important;
}

<!-- in your html, on a fixed element -->
<div data-fixed='absolute' class="my-fixed-div" ></div>
 

// When you slide your pages
slider.slidePage($page, {
    beforeTransition: function () {
        $('[data-fixed]').attr('data-fixed', 'absolute');
    },
    afterTransition: function () {
        $('[data-fixed]').attr('data-fixed', 'fixed');
    },
});
 

You can look at a working example in the example folder.