Creating carousels for a website can be a complicated and stressful process. Well, this problem can be solved using SWIPER JS
Swiper is a cool and easy to use JavaScript Library.
It is a modern touch slider which is focused only on modern apps and web platforms to bring the best experience and simplicity. The documentation is very easy to understand.
Steps in creating a carousel with Swiper JS
- Getting Started
Using CDN
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://unpkg.com/swiper/swiper-bundle.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://unpkg.com/swiper/swiper-bundle.min.css">
<script src="https://unpkg.com/swiper/swiper-bundle.js"></script>
<script src="https://unpkg.com/swiper/swiper-bundle.min.js"></script>
Using NPM
from the terminal
$ npm install swiper
- HTML Layout
<!-- Slider main container -->
<div class="swiper-container">
<!-- Additional required wrapper -->
<div class="swiper-wrapper">
<!-- Slides -->
<div class="swiper-slide">Slide 1</div>
<div class="swiper-slide">Slide 2</div>
<div class="swiper-slide">Slide 3</div>
...
</div>
<!-- If we need pagination -->
<div class="swiper-pagination"></div>
<!-- If we need navigation buttons -->
<div class="swiper-button-prev"></div>
<div class="swiper-button-next"></div>
<!-- If we need scrollbar -->
<div class="swiper-scrollbar"></div>
</div>
- Intialize Swiper Js
new Swiper(swiperContainer, parameters)
var mySwiper = new Swiper('.swiper-container', {
speed: 400,
spaceBetween: 100
});
Here are some demos of carousel
- Simple
- Pagination
- Scrollbar
- Vertical Slider
- Fade Effect
- 3D Cube Effect
- 3D Coverflow Effect
- 3D Flip Effect
- Thumbs Gallery
- Lazy Loading
For more Demos, check HERE
Credits
If you have any other questions you can send me a message on Twitter
Thanks 😊
Top comments (3)
Nice article Abiola
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