Vanilla javascript slider for all purposes.
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Tiny Slider 2

Tiny slider for all purposes, inspired by Owl Carousel.

Previous versions: v1, v0

Warning: tiny-slider works with static content and it works in the browser only. If the HTML is loaded dynamically, make sure to call tns() after its loading.

What's new
Features
Install
Usage
Options
Responsive options
Methods
Custom Events
Fallback
Browser Support
Support
License

What's new

Using % instead of px (No more recalculation of each slide width on window resize)
Using CSS Mediaqueries if supported
Save browser capability values to localStorage, so they will not be recheck again until browser get upgraded or user clear the localStorage manually.
More options available for responsive. (Start from v2.1.0, issue 53)
Insert controls and nav before slider instead of after (issue 4)
Move autoplay button out of nav container. (Start from v2.1.0)
Some selector changes in tiny-slider.scss

Migrating to v2

Update controls and / or nav styles based on their position changes.
Update the slider selectors accordingly if used in your CSS or JS.
Update styles related to autoplay button.

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Features

	Carousel				Gallery
	Horizontal			Vertical
	Percentage Width	Fixed Width	Auto Width	Vertical
Loop	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Rewind	✓	✓	✓	✓
Slide by	✓	✓	✓	✓
Gutter	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Edge padding	✓	✓	✓	✓
Center (v2.9.2+)	✓	✓	✓
Responsive	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Lazyload	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Autoplay	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Auto height	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Touch/drag	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Arrow keys	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Customize controls/nav	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Accessibility	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Respond to DOM visibility changes	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Custom events	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Nested	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓

Default

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Install

bower install tiny-slider or npm install tiny-slider

Usage

1. Add CSS (and IE8 polyfills if needed)

<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/tiny-slider/2.9.4/tiny-slider.css">
<!--[if (lt IE 9)]><script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/tiny-slider/2.9.4/min/tiny-slider.helper.ie8.js"></script><![endif]-->

2. Add markup

<div class="my-slider">
  <div></div>
  <div></div>
  <div></div>
</div>
<!-- or ul.my-slider > li -->

3. Call tns()

Option A: Add tiny-slider.js to your page:

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/tiny-slider/2.9.2/min/tiny-slider.js"></script>
<!-- NOTE: prior to v2.2.1 tiny-slider.js need to be in <body> -->

Option B: Import tns via webpack or rollup:

// yourScript.js
import { tns } from "./node_modules/tiny-slider/src/tiny-slider"

Option C: Import tns directly start from v2.8.2

<script type="module">
  import {tns} from './src/tiny-slider.js';

  var slider = tns({
    container: '.my-slider',
    items: 3,
    slideBy: 'page',
    autoplay: true
  });
  </script>

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Options

Option	Type	Description
`container`	Node \	String	Default: `'.slider'`. The slider container element or selector.
`mode`	"carousel" \	"gallery"	Default: "carousel". Controls animation behaviour. With `carousel` everything slides to the side, while `gallery` uses fade animations and changes all slides at once.
`axis`	"horizontal" \	"vertical"	Default: "horizontal". The axis of the slider.
`items`	positive number	Default: 1. Number of slides being displayed in the viewport. If slides less or equal than `items`, the slider won't be initialized.
`gutter`	positive integer	Default: 0. Space between slides (in "px").
`edgePadding`	positive integer	Default: 0. Space on the outside (in "px").
`fixedWidth`	positive integer \	false	Default: false. Controls `width` attribute of the slides.
`autoWidth`	Boolean	Default: false. If `true`, the width of each slide will be its natural width as a `inline-block` box.
`viewportMax` (was `fixedWidthViewportWidth`)	positive integer \	false	Default: false. Maximum viewport width for `fixedWidth`/`autoWidth`.
`slideBy`	positive number \	"page"	Default: 1. Number of slides going on one "click".
`center` (v2.9.2+)	Boolean	Default: false. Center the active slide in the viewport.
`controls`	Boolean	Default: true. Controls the display and functionalities of `controls` components (prev/next buttons). If `true`, display the `controls` and add all functionalities. For better accessibility, when a prev/next button is focused, user will be able to control the slider using left/right arrow keys.
`controlsPosition`	"top" \	"bottom"	Default: "top". Controls `controls` position.
`controlsText`	(Text \	Markup) Array	Default: ["prev", "next"]. Text or markup in the prev/next buttons.
`controlsContainer`	Node \	String \	false	Default: false. The container element/selector around the prev/next buttons. `controlsContainer` must have at least 2 child elements.
`prevButton`	Node \	String \	false	Default: false. Customized previous buttons. This option will be ignored if `controlsContainer` is a Node element or a CSS selector.
`nextButton`	Node \	String \	false	Default: false. Customized next buttons. This option will be ignored if `controlsContainer` is a Node element or a CSS selector.
`nav`	Boolean	Default: true. Controls the display and functionalities of `nav` components (dots). If `true`, display the `nav` and add all functionalities.
`navPosition`	"top" \	"bottom"	Default: "top". Controls `nav` position.
`navContainer`	Node \	String \	false	Default: false. The container element/selector around the dots. `navContainer` must have at least same number of children as the slides.
`navAsThumbnails`	Boolean	Default: false. Indicate if the dots are thumbnails. If `true`, they will always be visible even when more than 1 slides displayed in the viewport.
`arrowKeys`	Boolean	Default: false. Allows using arrow keys to switch slides.
`speed`	positive integer	Default: 300. Speed of the slide animation (in "ms").
`autoplay`	Boolean	Default: false. Toggles the automatic change of slides.
`autoplayPosition`	"top" \	"bottom"	Default: "top". Controls `autoplay` position.
`autoplayTimeout`	positive integer	Default: 5000. Time between 2 `autoplay` slides change (in "ms").
`autoplayDirection`	"forward" \	"backward"	Default: "forward". Direction of slide movement (ascending/descending the slide index).
`autoplayText`	Array (Text \	Markup)	Default: ["start", "stop"]. Text or markup in the autoplay start/stop button.
`autoplayHoverPause`	Boolean	Default: false. Stops sliding on mouseover.
`autoplayButton`	Node \	String \	false	Default: false. The customized autoplay start/stop button or selector.
`autoplayButtonOutput`	Boolean	Default: true. Output `autoplayButton` markup when `autoplay` is true but a customized `autoplayButton` is not provided.
`autoplayResetOnVisibility`	Boolean	Default: true. Pauses the sliding when the page is invisible and resumes it when the page become visiable again. (Page Visibility API)
`animateIn`	String	Default: "tns-fadeIn". Name of intro animation `class`.
`animateOut`	String	Default: "tns-fadeOut". Name of outro animation `class`.
`animateNormal`	String	Default: "tns-normal". Name of default animation `class`.
`animateDelay`	positive integer \	false	Default: false. Time between each `gallery` animation (in "ms").
`loop`	Boolean	Default: true. Moves throughout all the slides seamlessly.
`rewind`	Boolean	Default: false. Moves to the opposite edge when reaching the first or last slide.
`autoHeight`	Boolean	Default: false. Height of slider container changes according to each slide's height.
`responsive`	Object: { breakpoint: { key: value } } \	false	Default: false. Breakpoint: Integer. Defines options for different viewport widths (see Responsive Options).
`lazyload`	Boolean	Default: false. Enables lazyloading images that are currently not viewed, thus saving bandwidth (see demo). NOTE: + Class `.tns-lazy-img` need to be set on every image you want to lazyload if option `lazyloadSelector` is not specified; + `data-src` attribute with its value of the real image `src` is required; + `width` attribute for every image is required for `autoWidth` slider.
`lazyloadSelector` (v2.9.1+)	String	Default: `'.tns-lazy-img'`. The CSS selector for lazyload images.
`touch`	Boolean	Default: true. Activates input detection for touch devices.
`mouseDrag`	Boolean	Default: false. Changing slides by dragging them.
`swipeAngle`	positive integer \	Boolean	Default: 15. Swipe or drag will not be triggered if the angle is not inside the range when set.
`preventActionWhenRunning` (v2.9.1+)	Boolean	Default: false. Prevent next transition while slider is transforming.
`preventScrollOnTouch` (v2.9.1+)	"auto" \	"force" \	false	Default: false. Prevent page from scrolling on `touchmove`. If set to "auto", the slider will first check if the touch direction matches the slider axis, then decide whether prevent the page scrolling or not. If set to "force", the slider will always prevent the page scrolling.
`nested`	"inner" \	"outer" \	false	Default: false. Define the relationship between nested sliders. (see demo) Make sure you run the inner slider first, otherwise the height of the inner slider container will be wrong.
`freezable`	Boolean	Default: true. Indicate whether the slider will be frozen (`controls`, `nav`, `autoplay` and other functions will stop work) when all slides can be displayed in one page.
`disable`	Boolean	Default: false. Disable slider.
`startIndex`	positive integer	Default: 0. The initial `index` of the slider.
`onInit`	Function \	false	Default: false. Callback to be run on initialization.
`useLocalStorage`	Boolean	Default: true. Save browser capability variables to localStorage and without detecting them everytime the slider runs if set to `true`.
`nonce`	String / false	Default: false. Optional Nonce attribute for inline style tag to allow slider usage without `unsafe-inline Content Security Policy source.

NOTE: Prior to v2.0.2, options "container", "controlsContainer", "navContainer" and "autoplayButton" still need to be DOM elements. E.g. container: document.querySelector('.my-slider')

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Responsive options

The following options can be redefined in responsive field: startIndex, items, slideBy, speed, autoHeight, fixedWidth, edgePadding, gutter, center, controls, controlsText, nav, autoplay, autoplayHoverPause, autoplayResetOnVisibility, autoplayText, autoplayTimeout, touch, mouseDrag, arrowKeys, disable

<script>
  var slider = tns({
    container: '.my-slider',
    items: 1,
    responsive: {
      640: {
        edgePadding: 20,
        gutter: 20,
        items: 2
      },
      700: {
        gutter: 30
      },
      900: {
        items: 3
      }
    }
  });
</script>

NOTE:

The breakpoints behave like (min-width: breakpoint) in CSS, so an undefined option will be inherited from previous small breakpoints.
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Methods

The slider returns a slider object with some properties and methods once it's initialized:

{
  version: version, // tiny-slider version
  getInfo: info(),
  events: events, // Object
  goTo: goTo(),
  play: play(),
  pause: pause(),
  isOn: isOn, // Boolean
  updateSliderHeight: updateInnerWrapperHeight(),
  refresh: initSliderTransform(),
  destroy: destroy(),
  rebuild: rebuild()
}

To get the slider information, you can either use the getInfo() method or subscribe to an Event. Both return an Object:

{
                container: container, // slider container
               slideItems: slideItems, // slides list
             navContainer: navContainer, // nav container
                 navItems: navItems, // dots list
        controlsContainer: controlsContainer, // controls container
              hasControls: hasControls, // indicate if controls exist
               prevButton: prevButton, // previous button
               nextButton: nextButton, // next button
                    items: items, // items on a page
                  slideBy: slideBy // items slide by
               cloneCount: cloneCount, // cloned slide count
               slideCount: slideCount, // original slide count
            slideCountNew: slideCountNew, // total slide count after initialization
                    index: index, // current index
              indexCached: indexCached, // previous index
             displayIndex: getCurrentSlide(), // display index starts from 1
               navCurrent: navCurrent, // current dot index
         navCurrentCached: navCurrentCached, // previous dot index
                    pages: pages, // visible nav indexes
              pagesCached: pagesCached,
                    sheet: sheet,
                    event: e || {}, // event object if available
};

getInfo

Get slider information.

slider.getInfo();

document.querySelector('.next-button').onclick = function () {
  // get slider info
  var info = slider.getInfo(),
      indexPrev = info.indexCached,
      indexCurrent = info.index;

  // update style based on index
  info.slideItems[indexPrev].classList.remove('active');
  info.slideItems[indexCurrent].classList.add('active');
};

goTo

Go to specific slide by number or keywords.

slider.goTo(3);
slider.goTo('prev');
slider.goTo('next');
slider.goTo('first');
slider.goTo('last');

document.querySelector('.goto-button').onclick = function () {
  slider.goTo(3);
};

play

Programmatically start slider autoplay when autoplay: true.

slider.play();

pause

Programmatically stop slider autoplay when autoplay: true.

slider.pause();

updateSliderHeight

Manually adjust slider height when autoHeight is true.

slider.updateSliderHeight();

destroy

Destroy the slider.

slider.destroy();

rebuild

Rebuild the slider after destroy.

slider = slider.rebuild();
// this method returns a new slider Object with the same options with the original slider

Custom Events

Available events include: indexChanged, transitionStart, transitionEnd, newBreakpointStart, newBreakpointEnd, touchStart, touchMove, touchEnd, dragStart, dragMove and dragEnd.

var customizedFunction = function (info, eventName) {
  // direct access to info object
  console.log(info.event.type, info.container.id);
}

// bind function to event
slider.events.on('transitionEnd', customizedFunction);

// remove function binding
slider.events.off('transitionEnd', customizedFunction);

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Fallback

.no-js .your-slider { overflow-x: auto; }
.no-js .your-slider > div { float: none; }

Browser Support

Desktop: Firefox 8+ ✓ Chrome 15+ ✓ (Should works on Chrome 4-14 as well, but I couldn't test it.) Safari 4+ ✓ Opera 12.1+ ✓ IE 8+ ✓

Mobile: Android Browser 4.2+ ✓ Chrome Mobile 63+ ✓ Firefox Mobile 28+ ✓ Maxthon 4+ ✓

Support

Live tests and Automated Tests

Live tests, Screenshots and Automated Tests

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Images on demo page are from https://unsplash.com/.

License

This project is available under the MIT license.

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Tiny Slider

Tiny Slider 2

Contents

What's new

Features

Install

Usage

1. Add CSS (and IE8 polyfills if needed)

2. Add markup

3. Call tns()

Options

Responsive options

Methods

getInfo

goTo

play

pause

updateSliderHeight

destroy

rebuild

Custom Events

Fallback

Browser Support

Support

License