How TO - Slideshow
Image Slider or Image Carousel is a way to display multiple website images. Fancy pictures can attract a lot of visitors to the website.
Usually, image sliders are created with the help of JavaScript, but with the release of CSS3, this can also be done by using pure CSS3. In this article, we will learn how the slideshow effect can be created keeping the minimum code of CSS, and in the second part of the article, we will consider the ways of making image sliders with JavaScript. So, let’s come to their discussion below.
Creating Image Sliders Using Only CSS3
Probably, you have seen heavy sliders based on JavaScript. Such sliders make the webpage slower and also fail if the user has disabled the interpretation of JavaScript in the browser. Not using these sliders is one solution to this problem, but how would you implement a slider without JavaScript? Let's see a proper slider working without JavaScript.
Creating Slides with Jumping Links
A slider usually has a little UI to jump to a particular slide, so let's also do that semantically, with anchor links jumping to the correct slide.
Create your jumping links using the <a> anchor tag. Add a bit of styling and get some buttons.
To make sure that you will get a smooth sliding effect on both desktop and mobile, add the scroll-behavior property with its "smooth" value. Then, use the :target pseudo-class for something special to the "active" slide. Clicking on one of the slide navigation buttons changes the URL to the # hash, and that's when :target comes into effect.
Creating Slideshow or Carousel with CSS and JavaScript
First thing you should do is to create the structure of the image slider using HTML and place images.
After you have created your image slider HTML structure, the next step is to use CSS styles for having your slider’s interface. Also, add styles to the images, backgrounds, etc. You also need to style the dots and make your images responsive and browser friendly using CSS properties.
Now, it’s the time for adding the JavaScript part to provide the functionality for making images auto changing after a specific time interval.
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