jQuery to Auto Image Scroller
In this first jQuery tutorial we will develop a program that auto image scroller
Steps to develop the program
Step 1:
Create a new file (simple_carousel.html) and add the following code into
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en-us">
<head>
<title>jCarousel Examples</title>
<link href="../style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="script/jquery-1.2.3.pack.js">
</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="script/jquery.jcarousel.pack.js">
</script>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style/jquery.jcarousel.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style/skin.css" />
<script type="text/javascript">
function mycarousel_initCallback(carousel)
{
// Disable autoscrolling if the user clicks the prev or next button.
carousel.buttonNext.bind('click', function() {
carousel.startAuto(0);
});
carousel.buttonPrev.bind('click', function() {
carousel.startAuto(0);
});
// Pause autoscrolling if the user moves with the cursor over the clip.
carousel.clip.hover(function() {
carousel.stopAuto();
}, function() {
carousel.startAuto();
});
};
jQuery(document).ready(function() {
jQuery('#mycarousel').jcarousel({
auto: 2,
wrap: 'last',
initCallback: mycarousel_initCallback
});
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="wrap">
<ul id="mycarousel" class="jcarousel-skin-tango">
<li>
<img src="images/w1.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="i1" />
</li>
<li>
<img src="images/w2.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="i2" />
</li>
<li>
<img src="images/w3.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="i3" />
</li>
<li>
<img src="images/w4.jpg" width="75" height="75" alt="i4" />
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Program explanation:
The following code includes the jQuery JavaScript library file:
| <script type="text/javascript" src="script/jquery-1.2.3.pack.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="script/jquery.jcarousel.pack.js"></script> |
Function is called
| jQuery('#mycarousel').jcarousel( |
having attributes
auto: 2,
wrap: 'last',
initCallback: mycarousel_initCallback
The image scroll in 2 sec and onclick and hover scroll the images is pause.
When you run the program in browser it will look like following screen shot:

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