Beginning jQuery: From the Basics of jQuery to Writing your Own Plug-ins

© Jack Franklin, Russ Ferguson 2017

Jack Franklin and Russ Ferguson, Beginning jQuery, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3027-5_11

11. A jQuery Image Slider

Jack Franklin¹  and Russ Ferguson²

(1)Aviation House, GDS, 6th Floor Aviation House, London, UK

(2)Apt 129, Ocean, New Jersey, USA

You’re going to complete the book by building the famed jQuery plug-in: an image slider. This will pull together a lot of parts from the book that you’ve so far only studied in isolation. You’ll use animations to animate your images and events that let the user click through the slider—and end up with a plug-in that’s ready for production. You’ll also encounter new functionality that you haven’t studied yet. For example, you’ll hook up your slider to the keyboard so ...