Slideshow with Smooth Animated Transition: jQuery Blinds

Posted on March 11, 2010, Filled under jQuery,  Bookmark it

jQuery Blinds is a simple, effective, and customizable slideshow plugin shared by Little Web Things. It is very easy to install. You just have to put the list (UL) with the images (each LI containg the IMG tag with the right SRC attribute) inside a main class (.slideshow) then call the plugin:

HTML Code

<div class="slideshow">
   <ul>
      <li><img src="lemons/1.jpg" alt="lemon" /></li>
      <li><img src="lemons/2.jpg" alt="lemon tea" /></li>
      <li><img src="lemons/3.jpg" alt="splashing lemon" /></li>
      <li><img src="lemons/4.jpg" alt="salad with lemon" /></li>
      <li><img src="lemons/5.jpg" alt="lemonade!" /></li>
      <li><img src="lemons/6.jpg" alt="sliced lemon" /></li>
      <li><img src="lemons/7.jpg" alt="dripping lemon" /></li>
   </ul>
</div>

JavaScript Code

$(window).load(function () {
    $('.slideshow').blinds();
})

Features include:

  • Smooth animated transition
  • Customizable animation orchestration
  • Multiple instances on the same web page
  • jQuery compatible (plugin)
  • Unobtrusive JavaScript

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