If you need to add a high-quality jQuery image slider to your site, then in this article you will find a description required plugins. Even though JQuery has made working with JavaScript much easier, we still need plugins to speed up the web design process.
We can make changes to some of these plugins and create new sliders that are much more suitable for the purposes of our site.
For other sliders, you simply add titles, images, and select slide transition effects that come with the slider. All of these plugins are accompanied by detailed documentation, so adding new effects or functions to them will not be difficult. You can even change event-based triggers if you're an experienced JQuery programmer.
Latest trends such as responsive design are very important for web projects, whether you are implementing a plugin or a script. All of these elements make each of these plugins very flexible. Everything that came out in 2014 is included in this list.
jQuery image sliders
Jssor Responsive Slider
I recently came across this powerful jQuery slider and was able to see first hand that it does its job very well. It contains limitless possibilities that can be expanded through the open source code of the slider:
- Adaptive design;
- More than 15 customization options;
- More than 15 image changing effects;
- Image gallery, carousel, full screen size support;
- Vertical banner rotator, list of slides;
- Video support.
Demo | Download
PgwSlider - responsive slider based on JQuery / Zepto
The only task of this plugin is to show slides of images. It is very compact, since the JQuery files are only 2.5 KB in size, which allows it to load really quickly:
- Adaptive layout;
- SEO optimization;
- Support for different browsers;
- Simple image transitions;
- The archive size is only 2.5 KB.
Demo | Download
Jquery Vertical News Slider
A flexible and useful JQuery slider designed for news resources with a list of publications on the left side and an image displayed on the right:
- Adaptive design;
- Vertical column for switching news;
- Expanded headers.
Demo | Download
Wallop Slider
This slider does not contain jQuery, but I would like to present it as it is very compact and can significantly reduce page loading time. Let me know if you like it:
- Adaptive layout;
- Simple design;
- Various slide changing options;
- Minimal JavaScript code;
- The size is only 3KB.
Demo | Download
Flat-style Polaroid gallery
A document-scattered-on-a-desk style gallery with a flexible layout and beautiful design should be of interest to many of you. More suitable for tablets and large displays:
- Adaptive slider;
- Flat design;
- Random slide change;
- Full access to source code.
Demo | Download
A-Slider
Demo | Download
HiSlider – HTML5, jQuery and WordPress image slider
HiSlider introduced a new free plugin JQuery slider, with which you can create a variety of image galleries with fantastic transitions:
- Adaptive slider;
- Does not require programming knowledge;
- Several amazing templates and skins;
- Beautiful transition effects;
- Support for different platforms;
- Compatible with WordPress, Joomla, Drupal;
- Ability to display content different types: images, YouTube video and Vimeo videos;
- Flexible setup;
- Useful additional features;
- Unlimited amount of content displayed.
Demo |Download
Wow Slider
WOW Slider is responsive jquery-image slider with amazing visual effects (domino, rotate, blur, flip and flash, fly out, blinds) and professional templates.
WOW Slider comes with an installation wizard that allows you to create fantastic sliders in seconds without having to understand code or edit images. Versions of the plugin for Joomla and WordPress are also available for download:
- Fully responsive;
- Supports all browsers and all types of devices;
- Support touch devices;
- Easy installation on WordPress;
- Flexibility in configuration;
- SEO-optimized.
Demo |Download
Nivo Slider – free jQuery plugin
Nivo Slider is known all over the world as the most beautiful and easy to use image slider. The Nivo Slider plugin is free and released under the MIT license:
- Requires JQuery 1.7 and above;
- Beautiful transition effects;
- Simple and flexible to configure;
- Compact and adaptive;
- Open source;
- Powerful and simple;
- Several different templates;
- Automatic image cropping.
Demo |Download
Simple jQuery slider with technical documentation
The idea was inspired by Apple's sliders, in which several small elements can fly out with different animation effects. The developers tried to implement this concept taking into account minimum requirements to create a simple online store design in which the “flying” elements represent different categories:
- Adaptive layout;
- Minimalistic design;
- Various drop-out and slide changing effects.
Demo |Download
Full size jQuery image slider
A very simple slider that occupies 100% of the page width and adapts to screen sizes mobile devices. It works with CSS transitions, and images are "stacked" along with anchors. The anchor can be replaced or removed if you do not want to attach a link to the image.
When installed, the slider expands to 100% of the screen width. It can also automatically reduce the size of slide images:
- Adaptive JQuery slider;
- Full size;
- Minimalist design.
Demo |Download
Elastic Content Slider + tutorial
Elastic Content Slider automatically adjusts the width and height based on the dimensions of the parent element. This is a simple jQuery slider. It consists of a slide area at the top, and a navigation tab bar at the bottom. The slider adjusts its width and height according to the dimensions of the parent container.
When viewed on small diagonal screens, the navigation tabs turn into small icons:
- Adaptive design;
- Mouse click scrolling.
Demo |Download
Free 3D Stack Slider
An experimental slider that scrolls through images in 3D. The two stacks resemble stacks of paper, from which, when scrolled, images are displayed in the center of the slider:
- Adaptive design;
- Flip - transition;
- 3D effects.
Demo |Download
Fullscreen Slit Slider based on JQuery and CSS3 + tutorial
This tutorial will show you how to create a slider with a twist: the idea is to “cut” and display the current slide as you open the next or previous image. Using JQuery and CSS animation, we can create unique transition effects:
- Adaptive design;
- Split transition;
- Full screen slider.
Demo |Download
Unislider - a very small jQuery slider
No unnecessary bells and whistles, less than 3KB in size. Use any HTML code for your slides, extend it with using CSS. Everything related to Unslider is hosted on GitHub:
- Support for various browsers;
- Keyboard support;
- Height adjustment;
- Adaptive design;
- Touch input support.
Demo | Download
Minimal Responsive Slides
Simple and compact plugin ( size is only 1 KB), which creates adaptive slider using the elements inside the container. ResponsiveSLides.js works with big amount browsers, including all versions of IE from IE6 and higher:
- Fully responsive;
- Size 1 KB;
- CSS3 transitions with the ability to run via JavaScript;
- Simple markup using bulleted lists;
- Ability to customize transition effects and viewing duration of one slide;
- Supports the ability to create multiple slide shows;
- Automatic and manual scrolling.
Demo |Download
Camera - free jQuery slider
Camera is a plugin with many transition effects and a responsive layout. Easy to set up, supported by mobile devices:
- Fully responsive design;
- Signatures;
- Ability to add videos;
- 33 different color icons.
Demo |Download
SlidesJS, responsive jQuery plugin
SlidesJS is a responsive plugin for JQuery (1.7.1 and above) with support for touch devices and CSS3 transitions. Experiment with it, try a few ready-made examples that will help you figure out how to add SlidesJS to your project:
- Adaptive design;
- CSS3 transitions;
- Support for touch devices;
- Easy to set up.
Demo | Download
BX Jquery Slider
This is a free responsive jQuery slider:
- Fully responsive - adapts to any device;
- Horizontal, vertical slide change;
- Slides can contain images, videos or HTML content;
- Expanded support for touch devices;
- Using CSS Transitions for Slide Animation ( hardware acceleration);
- Callback API and fully public methods;
- Small file size;
- Easy to implement.
Demo |Download
FlexSlider 2
The best responsive slider. A new version was modified to increase speed and compactness.
Demo | Download
Galleria - JavaScript-based responsive photo gallery
Galleria is used on millions of sites to create image galleries in high quality. The number of positive reviews about her work is simply off the charts:
- Completely free;
- Full screen viewing mode;
- 100% adaptive;
- No programming experience required;
- Support for iPhone, iPad and other touch devices;
- Flickr, Vimeo, YouTube and more;
- Several topics.
Demo | Download
Blueberry - a simple responsive jQuery image slider
I present to you a jQuery image slider written specifically for responsive web design. Blueberry is an experimental open-source image slider plugin source code, which was written specifically to work with responsive templates.
When used separately, CSS3 and jQuery provide a wide range of capabilities. But if used together... Then they can make the effects really impressive. Sometimes the problem arises of how to better and more creatively arrange several images or photographs with a common theme in one place. As an option, you can create a slider (especially since there are a huge number of them). But in this tutorial we will create an interactive 3D gallery using CSS3 and jQuery. To quickly figure it out and apply the slider on your website, I recommend downloading the demo version (it is also available in the full news) and simply doing it by analogy in the example.
A real example can be seen here:
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HTML part - Interesting jQuery slider
Container with class main will be used to display the background. And then inside the block with the identifier immersive_slider you can add as many slides as you need. Buttons for moving through slides can be removed if you don’t need them:
| 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 | <div class = "main" >
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<div id = "immersive_slider" >
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jQuery part
| 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 | $("#immersive_slider") .immersive_slider (( animation: "fade" , slideSelector: ".slide" , container: ".main" , cssBlur: false , pagination: true , autoStart: 5000 ) ) ; |
As you may have noticed when viewing the slider example, there are different . All settings for these transitions are in the function above. Let's look at these settings:
- animation— a value that determines how the slides will change. Accepts the values "fade", "slide", or "bounce". And in order to make a vertical change of slides, you need to enter “slideUp” or “bounceUp”.
- slideSelector— a selector for selecting blocks with slides.
- container— this property defines the main container whose background will change.
- cssBlur This is a trial feature. If you don't want to set blur, then don't set this property.
- pagination— activates navigation.
- autoStart— automatic start of the slide show.
This slider is easy to install and if you figure it out, you can easily configure it and achieve the desired result. For this slider to work, you only need a few elements, which we will now consider in order.
HTML markup
Everything is very simple here, you just need to add the UL list at the very beginning right after the tag body.
There are only three lines in the list li, that is, the slider is designed for 3 images, if you need more, then the first step is to add the required number of lines. Let's move on.
CSS styles
This is probably the most important part of the work, since how our slider will work depends on the CSS. Open your site's style file and add the following code to it.
Body_slides( list-style:none; margin:0; padding:0; z-index:-2; background:#000;) .body_slides, .body_slides:after( position: fixed; width:100%; height:100% ; top:0px; left:0px;) .body_slides:after ( content: ""; background: transparent url(images/pattern.png) repeat top left;).body_slides li( width:100%; height:100%; position:absolute; top:0; left:0; background-size:cover; background-repeat:none; opacity:0; -webkit-animation: anim_slides 18s linear infinite 0s; -moz-animation: anim_slides 18s linear infinite 0s; -o-animation: anim_slides 18s linear infinite 0s; -ms-animation: anim_slides 18s linear infinite 0s; animation: anim_slides 18s linear infinite 0s; ) .body_slides li:nth-child(1)( background-image: url(images/ 1.jpg) ) .body_slides li:nth-child(2)( -webkit-animation-delay: 6.0s; -moz-animation-delay: 6.0s; background-image: url(images/2.jpg) ) . body_slides li:nth-child(3)( -webkit-animation-delay: 12.0s; -moz-animation-delay: 12.0s; background-image: url(images/3.jpg) ) @-webkit-keyframes anim_slides ( 0% (opacity:0;) 6% (opacity:1;) 24% (opacity:1;) 30% (opacity:0;) 100% (opacity:0;) ) @-moz-keyframes anim_slides ( 0% (opacity:0;) 6% (opacity:1;) 24% (opacity:1;) 30% (opacity:0;) 100% (opacity:0;) )
If you understand CSS, then it will not be difficult for you to understand what is responsible for what. I’ll tell you the minimum, because there’s no point in teaching CSS.
Our list with slides has a class body_slides. It is given styles for appearance and general settings.
Next we have a pseudo element - :after, which defines an additional layer and a pattern in the form of dots is superimposed on top of the background. This is done using the image to which the path is specified images/pattern.png. If you have a different path, please indicate it correctly.
.body_slides li:nth-child(1)- this is the first slide in order and it has a background image. Next comes nth-child(2), in addition to the picture, it is given another time and is equal to 6 seconds. That is, it will appear 6 seconds after the first slide. Next is nth-child(3), it will appear in another six seconds, so it has a time of 12 seconds. If you need to add a 4th slide, then add nth-child(4) and it should already have a time of 18 seconds. I think this is clear.
Next you need to specify the full animation time, it is now set in body_slides and equals 18 seconds. If you add 4 slides it will be equal to 24 and so on. If you are good at mathematics, you should be able to handle it, the main thing is not to make mistakes because the slider will not work at all. If desired, you can speed up or slow down by setting the desired time.
keyframes anim_slides- this is the appearance and disappearance of the slide. Initially, the slide is transparent and it is given the condition - opacity:0;. When it is the turn of any of the slides, it first appears, and then begins to become transparent again and completely disappears, and a new one appears in its place. If you want to change the speed of appearance or disappearance, change the percentage - this is a percentage of the total time.
The rest of the settings are according to desire and need - general background, now black, path to pictures, positioning, layer level, etc. The advantage of this slider is that it is simple and does not use scripts and entire libraries, if it were made using - jQuery. I really hope that if you wanted to change your background images, then this CSS slider will help you.
That's all, thanks for your attention. 🙂
Please tell me, is it possible to make a background image slider using slick slider?
Google doesn't help (The documentation says that images need to be placed in a div block. But what about background images?
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