jCarousel
Riding carousels with jQuery
Author: Jan Sorgalla
Version: 0.2.3 (Changelog)
Download: jcarousel.tar.gz or jcarousel.zip
Licence: Dual licensed under the MIT and GPL licenses.Introduction
<head>
tag of your HTML document:
<script type="text/javascript" src="/path/to/jquery-1.2.1.pack.js"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="/path/to/lib/jquery.jcarousel.pack.js"></script><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/path/to/lib/jquery.jcarousel.css" /><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/path/to/skin/skin.css" />
The download package contains some example skin packages. Feel free to build your own skins based on it.
jCarousel expects a very basic HTML markup structure inside your HTML document:
<ul id="mycarousel" class="jcarousel-skin-name"> <!-- The content goes in here --></ul>
jCarousel automatically wraps the required HTML markup around the list. The class attribute applies the jCarousel skin "name" to the carousel.
To setup jCarousel, add the following code inside the
<head>
tag of your HTML document:
<script type="text/javascript">jQuery(document).ready(function() { jQuery('#mycarousel').jcarousel({ // Configuration goes here });});</script>
jCarousel accepts a lot of configuration options, see chapter "Configuration" for further informations.
After jCarousel has been initialised, the fully created markup in the DOM is:
<div class="jcarousel-skin-name"> <div class="jcarousel-container"> <div disabled="disabled" class="jcarousel-prev jcarousel-prev-disabled"></div> <div class="jcarousel-next"></div> <div class="jcarousel-clip"> <ul class="jcarousel-list"> <li class="jcarousel-item-1">First item</li> <li class="jcarousel-item-2">Second item</li> </ul> </div> </div></div>
As you can see, there are some elements added which have assigned classes (in addition to the classes you may have already assigned manually). Feel free to design your carousel with the classes you can see above.
Note:
<ul>
to the top
<div>
element.
<div>
under
<div class="jcarousel-container">
illustrates a disabled button, the second an enabled one. The disabled button has the attribute
disabled
(which actually makes no sense for
<div>
elements, but you can also use
<button>
elements or whatever you want) as well as the additional class
jcarousel-prev-disabled
(or
jcarousel-next-disabled
).
<li>
elements of the list have the class
jcarousel-item-n
assigned where
n
represents the position in the list.
<ul class="jcarousel-list jcarousel-list-horizontal">
for a horizontal carousel.
0
(default) then autoscrolling is turned off.
wrap string null Specifies whether to wrap at the first/last item (or both) and jump back to the start/end. Options are"first"
,
"last"
or
"both"
as string. If set to
null
, wrapping is turned off (default). You can also pass
"circular"
as option to enable support for circular carousels. See the example Circular carousel on how to implement it.
initCallback function null JavaScript function that is called right after initialisation of the carousel. Two parameters are passed: The instance of the requesting carousel and the state of the carousel initialisation (init, reset or reload) itemLoadCallback function null JavaScript function that is called when the carousel requests a set of items to be loaded. Two parameters are passed: The instance of the requesting carousel and the state of the carousel action (prev, next or init). Alternatively, you can pass a hash of one or two functions which are triggered before and/or after animation:itemLoadCallback: { onBeforeAnimation: callback1, onAfterAnimation: callback2}
itemFirstInCallback function null JavaScript function that is called (after the scroll animation) when an item becomes the first one in the visible range of the carousel. Four parameters are passed: The instance of the requesting carousel and the<li>
object itself, the index which indicates the position of the item in the list and the state of the carousel action (prev, next or init). Alternatively, you can pass a hash of one or two functions which are triggered before and/or after animation:
itemFirstInCallback: { onBeforeAnimation: callback1, onAfterAnimation: callback2}
itemFirstOutCallback function null JavaScript function that is called (after the scroll animation) when an item isn't longer the first one in the visible range of the carousel. Four parameters are passed: The instance of the requesting carousel and the<li>
object itself, the index which indicates the position of the item in the list and the state of the carousel action (prev, next or init). Alternatively, you can pass a hash of one or two functions which are triggered before and/or after animation:
itemFirstOutCallback: { onBeforeAnimation: callback1, onAfterAnimation: callback2}
itemLastInCallback function null JavaScript function that is called (after the scroll animation) when an item becomes the last one in the visible range of the carousel. Four parameters are passed: The instance of the requesting carousel and the<li>
object itself, the index which indicates the position of the item in the list and the state of the carousel action (prev, next or init). Alternatively, you can pass a hash of one or two functions which are triggered before and/or after animation:
itemLastInCallback: { onBeforeAnimation: callback1, onAfterAnimation: callback2}
itemLastOutCallback function null JavaScript function that is called when an item isn't longer the last one in the visible range of the carousel. Four parameters are passed: The instance of the requesting carousel and the<li>
object itself, the index which indicates the position of the item in the list and the state of the carousel action (prev, next or init). Alternatively, you can pass a hash of one or two functions which are triggered before and/or after animation:
itemLastOutCallback: { onBeforeAnimation: callback1, onAfterAnimation: callback2}
itemVisibleInCallback function null JavaScript function that is called (after the scroll animation) when an item is in the visible range of the carousel. Four parameters are passed: The instance of the requesting carousel and the<li>
object itself, the index which indicates the position of the item in the list and the state of the carousel action (prev, next or init). Alternatively, you can pass a hash of one or two functions which are triggered before and/or after animation:
itemVisibleInCallback: { onBeforeAnimation: callback1, onAfterAnimation: callback2}
itemVisibleOutCallback function null JavaScript function that is called (after the scroll animation) when an item isn't longer in the visible range of the carousel. Four parameters are passed: The instance of the requesting carousel and the<li>
object itself, the index which indicates the position of the item in the list and the state of the carousel action (prev, next or init). Alternatively, you can pass a hash of one or two functions which are triggered before and/or after animation:
itemVisibleOutCallback: { onBeforeAnimation: callback1, onAfterAnimation: callback2}
buttonNextCallback function null JavaScript function that is called when the state of the 'next' control is changing. The responsibility of this method is to enable or disable the 'next' control. Three parameters are passed: The instance of the requesting carousel, the control element and a flag indicating whether the button should be enabled or disabled. buttonPrevCallback function null JavaScript function that is called when the state of the 'previous' control is changing. The responsibility of this method is to enable or disable the 'previous' control. Three parameters are passed: The instance of the requesting carousel, the control element and a flag indicating whether the button should be enabled or disabled. buttonNextHTML string<div></div>
The HTML markup for the auto-generated next button. If set to
null
, no next-button is created.
buttonPrevHTML string<div></div>
The HTML markup for the auto-generated prev button. If set to
null
, no prev-button is created.
buttonNextEvent string "click" Specifies the event which triggers the next scroll. buttonPrevEvent string "click" Specifies the event which triggers the prev scroll.John Resig for his fantastic jQuery library.jCarousel is inspired by the Carousel Component written by Bill Scott.