jQuery for Designers Beginner's Guide

Time for action – activating the Next and Previous Buttons

Next up, we'll get those next and previous buttons around the image working so that the site visitor can easily flip through all the images.

1. Just like when we hooked up external controls to the carousel in the last example, we'll get started by setting up a callback function for the carousel. We'll call the function nextPrev and set it up as follows:

   function nextPrev(carousel) {
   }
   
   thumbs.jcarousel({
     scroll: 6,
     wrap: 'circular',
     initCallback: nextPrev
   });

   Now the nextPrev function will be called when the carousel is initialized.

2. Inside the nextPrev() function, we'll select the previous button and bind a function to the click event:

   function nextPrev(carousel) { $('#slideshow-prev').bind('click', ...