Carousel Lite

Touch friendly. Incredibly small. Carousels the native way.

Carousel Lite aims to provide the most simple carousel solution possible. With a very small amount of code, we can hijack the default scroll behavior of an overflowed list (which provides us the added benefit of touch support with no additional JS - see below).

Registering a carousel

carousel.register( args );

Must provide the following arguments:

carousel

Selector for carousel ul

items

Selector for li children of the carousel ul

next

Selector for next button

previous

Selector for previous button

Carousel Markup

Nothing more is needed than a simple list:

<ul>
    <li></li>
    <li></li>
    <li></li>
</ul>

Carousel Styles

ul {
    overflow: hidden;
    white-space: nowrap;
}
 
li {
    display: inline-block;
}

Next/Previous Markup

The elements that you choose for your next/previous buttons can be anything, but here is an example:

<button class="previous"></button>
<button class="next"></button>

Next/Previous Styles

When the previous or next button is disabled (the carousel is at the beginning or end of a list, respectively), carousel-button-disabled is added to its class list (the disabled attribute is also toggled, but is only relevant if you are using button elements for next/previous). You can use this to style the buttons appropriately.

When a carousel is registered, the previous button is automatically disabled. The next button is disabled as well if the entirety of list fits within the carousel's clientWidth.

Optional Styles

To fall back on native touch scroll interaction for mobile devices, add in a media query like this:

@media (max-width: 640px) {
    button {
        display: none;
    }
 
    ul {
        overflow: auto;
    }
}