Overview

Features that have image slideshow/carousel contain Carousel Options in the controlling widget. Some widgets that have Carousel Options include:


Example


Settings

  1. Click Edit to set carousel options.

  2. In Name, select the carousel setting.


  3. Enter or select the Value. (See: Setting Names & Values)

  4. Click Add.

  5. When finished with all settings, click Apply.


Settings Names & Values

Includes all Carousel options provided for plugin video, lazyload, autoheight and animate.

* Commonly set by Commerce Vision customer websites. To use the default for a setting, there is no need to manually add it.

NameValues
Items* 

Number of items (images, products, articles, etc) displayed on the screen at a time.

Default: 3

Margin

Right margin (px) for each item.

Default: 0

Loop* 

Move items in infinite loop? Toggle ON or OFF.

Default: OFF

Center* 

Centre the starting/current item and show partial previous/next item? Works well with odd item number.

Default: OFF

MouseDrag

Allow dragging with mouse? 

Default: ON

TouchDrag

Allow dragging on touchscreens?

Default: ON

StagePadding

Add padding in pixels to the stage, making off-stage next/previous item visible ?

Default: 0

AutoWidth

Allow variable width for items in the carousel?

Default: OFF 

StartPosition

Item number to start on when page loads.

Default: 0

Nav* 

Show Next/Previous buttons? 

Default: OFF

Rewind

Slide backwards to previous item direction when last item reached instead of looping to the first slide?

Default: ON

NavText*

The text for Next/Previous buttons when Nav is ON. 

Default: 'next','previous'

TIP - use HTML to style it to suit your site.

NavElement

HTML

Default: div

SlideBy

Set how slides to move to next. Next one (default of 1) or by two, three, etc?

Default: 1

Dots*

Show dots at bottom of banner to indicate navigation? 

Default: ON

DotsEach

(Dots must be ON.) Enter 'True' for a dot to indicate one page in the sequence, or a number for the number of pages a dot represents.

Default: False

Autoplay*

Set the carousel to move to the next slide automatically. 

Default: OFF

AutoPlay Timeout*

(Autoplay must be ON.) Interval time before carousel starts and between slides, in milliseconds (1 second = 1000 milliseconds). 

Default: 5000 (= 5 seconds)

AutoHoverPause*

Pause when mouse hovers over banner?

Default: OFF

SmartSpeed

The time it takes for all slide animations to complete.

Default: 250

AutoPlaySpeed

(AutoPlay must be ON.) The time (in milliseconds) for AutoPlay slide animation to complete.

Default: false

NavSpeed

(Nav must be ON.) The time (in milliseconds) for the Next/Previous navigation slide to complete.

Default: false

DotSpeed

(Dots must be ON.) The time (in milliseconds) for the dot navigation slide animation to complete

Default: Number/Boolean 

DragEndSpeed

The time (in milliseconds) for the animation to complete once you stop dragging the slider left or right.

Default: false

Callbacks

(Needs Commerce Vision consultation) Listens for specific events and allows advanced/custom JS manipulation of the Carousel.

Default: ON

Responsive

Object containing responsive options for browser width breakpoints.

  • Each breakpoint key can be a Number value or a string: '480'.
  • Carousel has a in-built sort option but it’s best to set from the smallest screens to the widest.
  • Responsive options always overwrite top level settings.
  • As default, the responsive option is set to true so carousel always tries to fit the wrapper. 

Set to 'false' to remove responsive capabilities, e.g., if your layout is non-flexible. 

Default: empty object

Responsive RefreshRate

(Responsive must not be 'false'.) The time to wait after you changed the browser width to perform refresh actions (calculating widths/ cloning items etc.)

Default: 200

Video

Allow a video to be embedded to play in the banner

Default: OFF

VideoHeight

(Video must be ON.) Set embedded video height.

Default: OFF

VideoWidth

(Video must be ON.) Set embedded video width.

Default: OFF

AnimateOut

Animation effect type when item leaves user's view. 

Select value from dropdown list.

AnimateIn

Animation effect type when item enters user's view. 

Select value from dropdown list.

ItemElement

The HTML container type for each individual item.

Default: div

StageElement

The HTML container type for the entire area with the carousel.

Default: div

NavContainer

Have Nav in custom HTML container?

Default: false 

DotsContainer

Creat a custom container for Dots using HTML, class, ID 

Default: OFF

LazyLoad

Load items only they are viewable on screen. For better page load speed.

Default: ON

LazyLoadEager

Preload images to the right (and left when Loop is enabled) based on how many items specified. 

Default: 0


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