Simple Touch-enabled Carousel JavaScript Library – VN Carousel

VN Carousel is a simple, pure JavaScript library for creating a full-width, responsive, touch-enabled carousel slider.  It allows you to navigate between slides through touch swipe, mouse drag, dots navigation or click on the most closed sibling slides.

Basic usage:

Load the vn carousel JavaScript library at the bottom of your web page.

<script src="js/carousel.min.js"></script>

Load the required Hammer.js for touch events support.

<script src="js/hammer.min.js"></script>

Add slides and carousel controls to the carousel slider.

<div class="js-carousel">
  <div class="js-carousel-slides-wrapper">
    <div>
      <div class="slide-wrapper" style=
          "background-image: url(images/01.jpg)"> </div>
    </div>
    <div>
      <div class="slide-wrapper" style=
          "background-image: url(images/02.jpg)"> </div>
    </div>
    <div>
      <div class="slide-wrapper" style=
          "background-image: url(images/03.jpg)"> </div>
    </div>
  </div>
  <button class="carousel-arrow carousel-arrow-prev js-carousel-prev">previous</button>
  <button class="carousel-arrow carousel-arrow-next js-carousel-next">next</button>
  <div class="carousel-pagination js-carousel-pagination"></div>
</div>

The basic CSS styles for the carousel slider.

.carousel { overflow: hidden; }
.carousel-slides-wrapper,
.carousel-slide { will-change: transform, opacity; }
.carousel-slides-wrapper:after {
  content: " ";
  display: table;
  clear: both;
}
.carousel-slide { float: left; }
.carousel-pagination-item {
  position: relative;
  width: 1.25rem;
  height: 1.25rem;
  display: inline-block;
  border: 0;
  padding: 0;
  background: transparent;
  outline: 0;
  -webkit-appearance: none;
  appearance: none;
}
.carousel-pagination-item:after {
  content: " ";
  position: absolute;
  top: 50%;
  left: 50%;
 width: .375rem;
 height: .375rem;
 margin-left: -.1875rem;
 margin-top: -.1875rem;
  background-color: #000;
  border-radius: 50%;
  opacity: .2;
  transition: .3s;
}
.carousel-pagination-selected:after {
  opacity: 1;
  -webkit-transform: scale(1.75);
  transform: scale(1.75);
}
.carousel-transition,
.carousel-transition .carousel-slide { transition: .5s; }
/* Example */

body { background-color: #222; }
.carousel {
  position: relative;
  margin: 2em 0;
}
.carousel-slide {
  box-sizing: border-box;
  -webkit-transform: scale(.9);
  transform: scale(.9);
  opacity: .5;
}
.slide-wrapper {
  padding-top: 56.25%;
  background-color: #111;
  background-position: center center;
  background-size: cover;
  color: #333;
  font-size: 20em;
  text-align: center;
}
.carousel-slide-selected {
  -webkit-transform: scale(1);
  transform: scale(1);
  opacity: 1;
}
.carousel-arrow {
  position: absolute;
  top: 0;
  bottom: 0;
  width: 10%;
  border: 0;
  opacity: .5;
  background: transparent;
  outline: 0;
  text-indent: -9999px;
  overflow: hidden;
}
.carousel-arrow-prev { left: 0; }
.carousel-arrow-next { right: 0; }
.carousel-pagination {
  text-align: center;
  margin-top: 1em;
}
.carousel-pagination-item:after { background-color: #ddd; }

Initialize the carousel slider.

$myCarousel = document.querySelector('.js-carousel');
VNCarousel($myCarousel,{
  // infinite loop
  circular: true,
  // CSS selector
  slidesWrapper: '.js-carousel-slides-wrapper',
  carouselPrev: '.js-carousel-prev',
  carouselNext: '.js-carousel-next',
  carouselPagination: '.js-carousel-pagination',
  // // 0 to 20
  peekingPercentage: 10 
  
});