Simple Fade SlideShow Documentation

German-Note: Für Nutzer aus Deutschland gibt es hier eine deutschsprachige Dokumentation.

The jQuery Simple Fade SlideShow was made by Pascal Bajorat a web developer and designer based in Berlin, Germany.

Copyright (c) 2011 Pascal Bajorat
Dual licensed under the MIT and Gnu GPL version 3 licenses.

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Create the HTML strucure for Simple Fade SlideShow

You can use some of the following structure formats to create your slideshow:

This is the general markup:

<* id="slideshow">
    <*>Subelement</*>     
    <*>Subelement</*>  
</*>

Use Lists:

<ul id="slideshow">
    <li><img src="images/4.jpg" width="640" height="480" border="0" alt="" /></li> <!-- This is the last image in the slideshow -->
    <li><img src="images/3.jpg" width="640" height="480" border="0" alt="" /></li>
    <li><img src="images/2.jpg" width="640" height="480" border="0" alt="" /></li>
    <li><img src="images/1.jpg" width="640" height="480" border="0" alt="" /></li> <!-- This is the first image in the slideshow -->
</ul>

Use Div Tags:

<div id="slideshow">
    <div><img src="images/4.jpg" width="640" height="480" border="0" alt="" /></div> <!-- This is the last image in the slideshow -->
    <div><img src="images/3.jpg" width="640" height="480" border="0" alt="" /></div>
    <div><img src="images/2.jpg" width="640" height="480" border="0" alt="" /></div>
    <div><img src="images/1.jpg" width="640" height="480" border="0" alt="" /></div> <!-- This is the first image in the slideshow -->
</div>

Use Div and only images:

<div id="slideshow">
    <img src="images/4.jpg" width="640" height="480" border="0" alt="" /> <!-- This is the last image in the slideshow -->
    <img src="images/3.jpg" width="640" height="480" border="0" alt="" />
    <img src="images/2.jpg" width="640" height="480" border="0" alt="" />
    <img src="images/1.jpg" width="640" height="480" border="0" alt="" /> <!-- This is the first image in the slideshow -->
</div>

Start / bind the Simple Fade SlideShow to HTML elements

To start and bind the plugin to the HTML structure you habe created in the step bevor use this code:

jQuery(document).ready(function(){
    jQuery('#slideshow').fadeSlideShow();
});

This code will bind the slideshow to the HTML element with id #slideshow and start with default settings.

Options of Simple Fade SlideShow

The code below shows the default settings of Simple Fade SlideShow:

width: 640, // default width of the slideshow
height: 480, // default height of the slideshow
speed: 'slow', // default animation transition speed
interval: 3000, // default interval between image change
PlayPauseElement: 'fssPlayPause', // default css id for the play / pause element
PlayText: 'Play', // default play text
PauseText: 'Pause', // default pause text
NextElement: 'fssNext', // default id for next button
NextElementText: 'Next >', // default text for next button
PrevElement: 'fssPrev', // default id for prev button
PrevElementText: '< Prev', // default text for prev button
ListElement: 'fssList', // default id for image / content controll list
ListLi: 'fssLi', // default class for li's in the image / content controll 
ListLiActive: 'fssActive', // default class for active state in the controll list
addListToId: false, // add the controll list to special id in your code - default false
allowKeyboardCtrl: true, // allow keyboard controlls left / right / space
autoplay: true // autoplay the slideshow

Note: The elements: PlayPauseElement, NextElement, PrevElement and ListElement will be generate automated by the slideshow script if you don’t create this elements yourself. If you want to disable that elements change the option to false

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How to change the options

You can change the default settings in the function call to fadeSlideShow as parameter.

This is an example for changing the width and height:

jQuery(document).ready(function(){
    jQuery('#slideshow').fadeSlideShow({
        width: 800,
        height: 600
    });
});

Styling with CSS

If you don’t have changed the default CSS id’s and/or classes in the options, then you can use the following defaults for styling:

#fssPrev // is the id of the previous button
#fssNext // is the id of the next button
#fssPlayPause // is the id of the play / pause button
#fssList // is the id of the control list
.fssLi(X) // class of the li inside #fssList - (X) is a counting number
.fssActive // this class marked the active li inside #fssList
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Documentation

Here you can find an extensive documentation for this jQuery Plugin: read, learn, use and have fun with Simple FadeSlideShow.


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