image slider multiple rows with just css or angularjs? - css

Question

Is there a way to create an multiple row image slider like the one in the image below using just css? or is there a way to do this with angular?
The slider needs to move as one (single rows cannot be swiped individually).

Answer 1

First you need to understand the overflow property in css:
https://css-tricks.com/almanac/properties/o/overflow/
This will allow you to see there is a scroll property. That can make your scroll bars. Yours should use overflow-x to scroll the direction you want it to go.
As for angular, you need to look into ng-repeat command. Here is a fiddle that is doing what you are looking for:
<div ng-repeat="user in users | limitTo:display_limit">
http://jsfiddle.net/bmleite/hp4w7/

Answer 2

Quick answer to your question.. no, there is no way to do this with just CSS because you will have to handle the swipe, touch, click, etc. events using javascript. I guess I was working under the assumption that you would be adding angularjs into your application solely for this purpose, so I made a jQuery solution. If that is a wrong assumption, I will rewrite an angular solution.
Basically, the idea is that you structure your HTML/CSS in a way to get the effect of the sliding within a given container, and then use event handlers to update the slider as the user interacts with it.
Working DEMO
HTML
<div class="slider-display centered">
<div class="image-container">
<div class="image">Image<br>1</div>
<div class="image">Image<br>2</div>
<div class="image">Image<br>3</div>
<div class="image">Image<br>4</div>
<div class="image">Image<br>5</div>
<div class="image">Image<br>6</div>
<div class="image">Image<br>7</div>
<div class="image">Image<br>8</div>
<div class="image">Image<br>9</div>
<div class="image">Image<br>10</div>
<div class="image">Image<br>11</div>
<div class="image">Image<br>12</div>
<div class="image">Image<br>13</div>
<div class="image">Image<br>14</div>
<div class="image">Image<br>15</div>
<div class="image">Image<br>16</div>
<div class="image">Image<br>17</div>
<div class="image">Image<br>18</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="centered" style="text-align: center; max-width: 350px;">
<button class="move-left"><--</button>
<button class="move-right">--></button>
</div>
Javascript
$(function () {
var getWidth = function ($element) {
var total = 0;
total += $element.width();
total += Number($element.css("padding-left").replace("px", ""));
total += Number($element.css("padding-right").replace("px", ""));
total += Number($element.css("border-left").split("px")[0]);
total += Number($element.css("border-right").split("px")[0]);
total += Number($element.css("margin-left").split("px")[0]);
total += Number($element.css("margin-right").split("px")[0]);
return total;
};
var sliderPosition = 0;
var imageWidth = getWidth($(".image").eq(0));
$(".move-left").on("click.slider", function () {
var maxVisibleItems = Math.ceil($(".slider-display").width() / imageWidth);
var maxItemsPerRow = Math.ceil($(".image-container").width() / imageWidth);
var numRows = Math.ceil($(".image-container .image").length / maxItemsPerRow);
var maxPosition = numRows > 1 ? maxVisibleItems - maxItemsPerRow : maxVisibleItems - $(".image-container .image").length;
if (sliderPosition > (maxPosition)) {
sliderPosition--;
var $imageContainer = $(".image-container");
$(".image-container").animate({
"margin-left": sliderPosition * imageWidth
},{
duration: 200,
easing: "linear",
queue: true,
start: function () {
$(".move-left").prop("disabled", true);
},
done: function () {
$(".move-left").prop("disabled", false);
}
});
}
});
$(".move-right").on("click.slider", function () {
if (sliderPosition < 0) {
sliderPosition++;
var $imageContainer = $(".image-container");
$(".image-container").animate({
"margin-left": sliderPosition * imageWidth
},{
duration: 200,
easing: "linear",
queue: true,
start: function () {
$(".move-right").prop("disabled", true);
},
done: function () {
$(".move-right").prop("disabled", false);
}
});
}
});
});
CSS
.image {
float: left;
height: 80px;
width: 80px;
background: #888888;
text-align: center;
padding: 5px;
margin: 5px;
font-size: 1.5rem;
}
.image-container {
width: 650px;
position: relative;
}
.slider-display {
max-width: 450px;
overflow: hidden;
background: #ddd
}
.centered {
margin: 0 auto;
}