Mostly CSS slider with great performance.
npm install scroll-snap-slider
Mostly CSS slider with great performance.
- Premise
- Sizes
- Restrictions
- Installing
- Usage
- Markup
- CSS
- Additional Styles
- JavaScript
- API
- Events
- Public Properties
- Support
- Contributing
* Native touch integration (draggable)
* Native scroll integration (any peripheral — if it can scroll, it can use this slider)
* Full HTML slides (any content possible)
* Usable with native DOM methods like scrollIntoView()
This library is an opinionated minimal implementation of a common feature across many websites.
To keep it small, there are not many fancy features and there is almost no error handling.
However, with a clear API and the use of a ES6 class, it can provide a useful base for custom extensions.
What this module contains:
* Example markup for a scroll-snap slider
* CSS default styling for a scroll-snap slider without scrollbars
* ES6 class to slightly enhance functionality
* ES6 class plugins for loop, autoplay, and desktop/mouse draggable features
* TypeScript Typings
Here are the sizes of individual modules, using terser and gzip with default options.
| Item | minified (terser) | minified + gzipped |
|------------------|-------------------|--------------------|
| complete exports | 8.4 kB | 2.1 kB |
This library only handles sliders on the X-axis.
For more "fully-featured" implementations, go to:
* Nick Piscitelli's Glider.js
* Tanner Hodges' snap-slider
``shell
npm install scroll-snap-slider
yarn add scroll-snap-slider
`
The class provided in this package augments a slider with a few events and methods.
You can add whatever markup inside the slides.
`html
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css
@import 'scroll-snap-slider';
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Prevents page navigation on horizontal scrolling, i.E. on macOS.
[\[Support tables\]](https://caniuse.com/?search=overscroll-behavior)
css
.scroll-snap-slider {
overscroll-behavior-x: none;
overscroll-behavior-y: auto;
}
`Prevents scrolling past elements in the slider:
[\[Support tables\]](https://caniuse.com/?search=scroll-snap-stop)
css
.scroll-snap-slide {
scroll-snap-stop: always;
}
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If you do not want to add any additional behaviour, the JavaScript instance is not needed. This class dispatches several
events and exposes a few methods, with which you can enhance your slider's behaviour.
Default behaviour:
javascript
import { ScrollSnapSlider } from 'scroll-snap-slider'const element = document.querySelector('.example-slider')
const slider = new ScrollSnapSlider({ element })
slider.addEventListener('slide-start', function (event) {
console.info(
Started sliding towards slide ${event.detail}.)
})slider.addEventListener('slide-pass', function (event) {
console.info(
Passing slide ${event.detail}.)
})slider.addEventListener('slide-stop', function (event) {
console.info(
Stopped sliding at slide ${event.detail}.)
})
`Advanced config:
javascript
import { ScrollSnapSlider } from 'scroll-snap-slider'// Do not automatically attach scroll listener
const slider = new ScrollSnapSlider({
element: document.querySelector('.example-slider'),
scrollTimeout: 50, // Sets a shorter timeout to detect scroll end
roundingMethod: Math.round, // Dispatch 'slide-pass' events around the center of each slide
// roundingMethod: Math.ceil, // Dispatch 'slide-pass' events as soon as the next one is visible
// roundingMethod: Math.floor, // Dispatch 'slide-pass' events only when the next one is fully visible
sizingMethod (slider) {
// with padding
return slider.element.firstElementChild.offsetWidth
// without padding
// return slider.element.firstElementChild.clientWidth
}
})
`Plugins:
You can add one or multiple of the available Plugins:
*
: Automatically slides at a given interval
* ScrollSnapLoop: Sliding past the last element shows the first without sliding to the start (and vice-versa)
* ScrollSnapDraggable: Drag the slider with your mouse. Note: this does not affect mobile behaviour and is not
necessary for touch sliding.`javascript
import { ScrollSnapSlider, ScrollSnapAutoplay, ScrollSnapLoop } from 'scroll-snap-slider';const element = document.querySelector('.example-slider')
const slider = new ScrollSnapSlider({ element }).with([
new ScrollSnapAutoplay(1200),
new ScrollSnapLoop
])
`Creating your own plugin:
javascript
export class CustomPlugin extends ScrollSnapPlugin { /**
* Pass any config here
@param {} config
*/
constructor (config) {
super()
this.config = config
}
/**
* Chose a unique plugin name. If you need multiple instances of the same plugin on a slider, each must return a unique id.
* @return {String}
*/
get id () {
return 'lubba-wubba-dub-dub'
}
/**
* Attach listeners, fetch DOM things, save reference to the slider
* @param {ScrollSnapSlider} slider
* @override
*/
enable (slider) {
// TODO method stub
}
/**
* Free resources, remove listeners, ...
* @override
*/
disable () {
// TODO method stub
}
}
`API
| Method | Description |
|--------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|
| Scrolls to slide at index. |
| addEventListener(...) | This is a shortcut for slider.element.addEventListener(...). |
| removeEventListener(...) | This is a shortcut for slider.element.removeEventListener(...). |
| attachEventListeners() | Enables the JS behaviour of this plugin. This is called in the constructor. |
| detachEventListeners() | Disables the JS behaviour of this plugin. |
| destroy() | Free resources and listeners. You can/should do slider = null after this. |Events
Events dispatched on the slider's
element:| Event Name | Event Detail Type | Description |
|---------------|-------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|
slide-start | Number | Dispatched when sliding starts toward slide at event.detail. |
| slide-pass | Number | Dispatched when sliding passes (crosses the threshold to) slide at event.detail. The threshold is defined/altered by the roundingMethod. |
| slide-stop | Number | Dispatched when sliding stopped at index event.detail, i.e. the last scroll event happened before scrollTimeout ms. |You can use the proxy methods
addEventListener and removeEventListener to listen to them.If you want proper typing for these events in TypeScript, you can augment the global
HTMLElementEventMap interface:`ts
declare global {
interface HTMLElementEventMap {
'slide-pass': CustomEvent;
'slide-stop': CustomEvent;
'slide-start': CustomEvent;
}
}
`or copy/import them from
.Public Properties
| Property | Description |
|------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
|
slide: Number (read only) | Currently active slide. |
| element: Element (read only) | The element passed into the constructor. |
| scrollTimeout: Number | Timeout delay in milliseconds used to catch the end of scroll events. |
| plugins: Map | Map of plugins enabled for this slider |Support
Check out the support tables for CSS scroll snap.
Note that it's up to you to inject or add vendor specific code.
Contributing
Feel free to open issues and pull requests, but keep the minimalist approach of this project in mind. When in doubt,
open an issue first and we can discuss.
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`shell
yarn # install deps
yarn dev # run a local dev-server of the demo
yarn build # build the module
``This project now uses GitHub Copilot with Claude Sonnet 4.5 for some specific tasks: creating test cases and build
configuration.
Like any code commited to my account, I read, understand, and approve every line of code, regardless of its source.