Creating a slider with Tailwind and a little bit of javascript is actually very simple and that's what we'll be cover in this tutorial. First, we'll create the HTML and CSS for our slider, and then we will add the slider functionality with a little bit of javascript. Here is a quick example of what we'll create. Stylizing the slidesIn this example, we'll create a full-screen slider so our HTML for our first slide will look something like this:
You can see how this will look in the codepen below. As you can see it's just a simple full-screen page with centered text. Next, we're going to add some transform and translate classes to our slide element.
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But, this won't function without changing those translate classes, so let's do that with a little bit of javascript. (FYI, notice in the code above we added a class of
From our javascript, we are waiting 3 seconds, moving the active slide to the left, and then moving the next slide on to the screen. Take a look at the codepen example below: If you don't see the slide functionality above you may need to rerun the codepen. Ok, now that we have our slider moving, how about we include a few buttons to trigger that move and add a few more slides. Adding slide functionalityNext, we'll probably want to include a few buttons inside of our slider. Simple enough, here are the buttons we will add inside our container.
You can see how those buttons will look below: The buttons aren't functioning yet, so let's add that functionality in with the following code.
If we add 0 to our next button and 1 to our previous button you will that our slider works by click on the left and right buttons.Additional functionalityThis was a very basic example of creating a slider using TailwindCSS. You may want to add some additional functionality to make your slider complete. Here are just a few as an example.
Each slider functionality may be different based on your use case, but at least this will help you get up and running with your custom TailwindCSS slider. |