Create Beautiful jQuery slider tutorial

Posted by ravindra | on Apr 24, 2009 10:43 PM

This tutorial explains how to develop Create Beautiful jQuery sliders tutorial with image description and name.

The final result is something like this:

jQuery-sliders Step 1: HTML page:

Create a new HTML page and copy and paste the following code inside <body> tag:

<div id="header">
<div class="wrap">
<div id="slide-holder">
<div id="slide-runner">
<a href=""><img id="slide-img-1" src="images/nature-photo.png" class="slide" alt="" /></a>
<a href=""><img id="slide-img-2" src="images/nature-photo1.png" class="slide" alt="" /></a>
<a href=""><img id="slide-img-3" src="images/nature-photo2.png" class="slide" alt="" /></a>
<a href=""><img id="slide-img-4" src="images/nature-photo3.png" class="slide" alt="" /></a>
<a href=""><img id="slide-img-5" src="images/nature-photo4.png" class="slide" alt="" /></a>
<a href=""><img id="slide-img-6" src="images/nature-photo4.png" class="slide" alt="" /></a>
<a href=""><img id="slide-img-7" src="images/nature-photo6.png" class="slide" alt="" /></a>
<div id="slide-controls">
<p id="slide-client" class="text"><strong>post: </strong><span></span></p>
<p id="slide-desc" class="text"></p>
<p id="slide-nav"></p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>

Step 2: CSS file

*{
margin:0;
padding:0;
}
html{
height:100%;
}
body{
height:100%;
color:#a4a4a4;
cursor:default;
font-size:11px;
line-height:16px;
text-align:center;
background-color:#000;
background-position:50% 0;
background-repeat:no-repeat;
font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;
}
a:link,a:visited{
color:#fff;
text-decoration:none;
}
a img{
border:0;
}
div.wrap{
width:993px;
margin:0 auto;
text-align:left;
}
div#top div#nav{
float:left;
clear:both;
width:993px;
height:52px;
margin:22px 0 0;
background:url url(images/nav-bg.png) 0 0 no-repeat;
}
div#top div#nav ul{
float:left;
width:700px;
height:52px;
list-style-type:none;
}
div#nav ul li{
float:left;
height:52px;
}
div#nav ul li a{
border:0;
height:52px;
display:block;
line-height:52px;
text-indent:-9999px;
}
div#header{
margin:-1px 0 0;
}
div#video-header{
height:683px;
margin:-1px 0 0;
}
div#header div.wrap{
height:299px;
background:url(images/header-bg.png) 50% 0 no-repeat;
}
div#header div#slide-holder{
z-index:40;
width:993px;
height:299px;
position:absolute;
}
div#header div#slide-holder div#slide-runner{
top:9px;
left:9px;
width:973px;
height:278px;
overflow:hidden;
position:absolute;
}
div#header div#slide-holder img{
margin:0;
display:none;
position:absolute;
}
div#header div#slide-holder div#slide-controls{
left:0;
bottom:228px;
width:973px;
height:46px;
display:none;
position:absolute;
background:url(images/slide-bg.png) 0 0;
}
div#header div#slide-holder div#slide-controls p.text{
float:left;
color:#fff;
display:inline;
font-size:10px;
line-height:16px;
margin:15px 0 0 20px;
text-transform:uppercase;
}
div#header div#slide-holder div#slide-controls p#slide-nav{
float:right;
height:24px;
display:inline;
margin:11px 15px 0 0;
}
div#header div#slide-holder div#slide-controls p#slide-nav a{
float:left;
width:24px;
height:24px;
display:inline;
font-size:11px;
margin:0 5px 0 0;
line-height:24px;
font-weight:bold;
text-align:center;
text-decoration:none;
background-position:0 0;
background-repeat:no-repeat;
}
div#header div#slide-holder div#slide-controls p#slide-nav a.on{
background-position:0 -24px;
}
div#header div#slide-holder div#slide-controls p#slide-nav a{background-image:url(images/silde-nav.png);}
div#nav ul li a{background:url(images/nav.png) no-repeat;}

Step 3: simple JavaScript for jQuery sliders:

copy and paste the following code for jQuery sliders.add to jQuery sliders code after your HTML code in BODY section. you can change the post title and description easily just change "client" command and for description just change "desc" from Jquery code.

<script type=" text="" javascript="">
if(!window.slider) var slider={};slider.data=[{"id":"slide-img-1","client":"nature beauty","desc":"nature beauty photography"},{"id":"slide-img-2","client":"nature beauty","desc":"add your description here"},{"id":"slide-img-3","client":"nature beauty","desc":"add your description here"},{"id":"slide-img-4","client":"nature beauty","desc":"add your description here"},{"id":"slide-img-5","client":"nature beauty","desc":"add your description here"},{"id":"slide-img-6","client":"nature beauty","desc":"add your description here"},{"id":"slide-img-7","client":"nature beauty","desc":"add your description here"}];
</script>

Step 4: link jquery.js, scripts.js, file to your html pages :

Download the jquery.js, scripts.js, file and link this file in your HTML page inside <head> tag. Replace the "[" and "] " with "<" and ">".


  • [script type="text/javascript"] var _siteRoot='index.html',_root='index.html';
    [/script]
  • jquery.js
  • scripts.js

Save and test the result!

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  1. Anonymous April 29, 2009 3:05 AM  

    Really nice!

  2. Anonymous May 6, 2009 8:45 AM  

    This has got to be the nicest slider ever made. Now...how to make it work with wordpress...hmm.

  3. Anonymous May 12, 2009 2:42 AM  

    Really nice.. thanks for sharing this article.. very usefull!