Responsive Retina-ready Slider/Carousel In jQuery

This is a small slider jQuery plugin to create a responsive, mobile-friendly, retina-ready, full-screen content slider/carousel from semantic HTML markup.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.

How to use it:

1. Insert slides together with next/prev navigation controls into the HTML page.

<article class="slider">

  <section class="slide">
    <img src="img/1.jpg" alt="">
    <div class="slide-content">
      <p class="slide-title">Slide 1</p>
    </div>
  </section>

  <section class="slide">
    <img src="img/2.jpg" alt="">
    <div class="slide-content">
      <p class="slide-title">Slide 2</p>
    </div>
  </section>

  <section class="slide">
    <img src="img/3.jpg" alt="">
    <div class="slide-content">
      <p class="slide-title">Slide 3</p>
    </div>
  </section>

  <nav class="slider-nav">
    <span class="prev-slide"></span>
    <span class="next-slide"></span>
  </nav>
  
</article>

2. Load both jQuery JavaScript library and the slider.js script in the document.

<script src="/path/to/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="/path/to/slider.js"></script>

3. The basic styling of the carousel/slider.

.slider {
  position: relative;
  width: 100%;
  height: 100%;
  overflow: hidden;
  background-color: #555;
}

.slide {
  position: absolute;
  top: 0;
  left: 0;
  display: none;
  width: 100%;
  height: 100%;
  overflow: hidden;
}

.slide img {
  position: absolute;
  top: 0;
  left: 0;
  display: block;
  width: 100%;
  height: 100%;
  cursor: default;
}

.slide-content {
  position: absolute;
  bottom: 20%;
  width: 100%;
  text-align: center;
  color: #fff;
  -webkit-text-shadow: 0 2px 5px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6), 0 0 5px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5);
  -moz-text-shadow: 0 2px 5px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6), 0 0 5px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5);
  text-shadow: 0 2px 5px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6), 0 0 5px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5);
}

.slide-title {
  font-size: 10vw;
}

@media screen and (max-width: 61.25em) {
  .slider {
    max-height: 57.95918367vw;
  }
}

@media screen and (min-height: 61.25em) {
  .slider {
    max-height: 57.95918367vw;
  }
}

4. The CSS for the navigation controls.

.next-slide,
.prev-slide {
  position: absolute;
  display: inline-block;
  width: 3.125em;
  height: 3.125em;
  line-height: 3.125;
  margin: 0;
  border: .125em solid white;
  backface-visibility: hidden;
  background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3);
  color: white;
  overflow: hidden;
  cursor: pointer;
  z-index: 20;
  -webkit-transition: all .3s ease-in-out 0s;
  -moz-transition: all .3s ease-in-out 0s;
  -o-transition: all .3s ease-in-out 0s;
  transition: all .3s ease-in-out 0s;
  -webkit-user-select: none;
  user-select: none;
}

.prev-slide {
  left: 2%;
}

.next-slide {
  right: 2%;
}

.next-slide:hover,
.prev-slide:hover {
  background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6);
}

.next-slide::before,
.prev-slide::before {
  position: absolute;
  top: 33%;
  display: inline-block;
  width: .8125em;
  height: .8125em;
  content: "";
  border-left: .25em solid white;
  border-top: .25em solid white;
  backface-visibility: hidden;
}

.prev-slide::before {
  -webkit-transform: rotate(-45deg);
  -moz-transform: rotate(-45deg);
  -ms-transform: rotate(-45deg);
  -o-transform: rotate(-45deg);
  transform: rotate(-45deg);
  right: 25%;
}

.next-slide::before {
  -webkit-transform: rotate(135deg);
  -moz-transform: rotate(135deg);
  -ms-transform: rotate(135deg);
  -o-transform: rotate(135deg);
  transform: rotate(135deg);
  left: 25%;
}

@media screen and (max-width: 42.5em) {
  .next-slide,
  .prev-slide {
    display: none;
  }
}

Changelog:

2020-12-07

• CSS Updated

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This awesome jQuery plugin is developed by jacobxperez. For more Advanced Usages, please check the demo page or visit the official website.