embla-carousel
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Embla Carousel is a lightweight, extendable, and customizable carousel library for modern web applications. It provides a simple API for creating responsive and touch-friendly carousels with various customization options.
Basic Carousel Setup
This code initializes a basic Embla Carousel on an HTML element with the class 'embla'.
const emblaNode = document.querySelector('.embla');
const embla = EmblaCarousel(emblaNode);Custom Options
This code demonstrates how to initialize an Embla Carousel with custom options such as looping and speed.
const emblaNode = document.querySelector('.embla');
const options = { loop: true, speed: 10 };
const embla = EmblaCarousel(emblaNode, options);Adding Plugins
This code shows how to add plugins to the Embla Carousel, such as the Autoplay plugin for automatic sliding.
import EmblaCarousel from 'embla-carousel';
import Autoplay from 'embla-carousel-autoplay';
const emblaNode = document.querySelector('.embla');
const embla = EmblaCarousel(emblaNode, { loop: true }, [Autoplay()]);Event Handling
This code demonstrates how to handle events in Embla Carousel, such as logging the selected slide index when a slide is selected.
const emblaNode = document.querySelector('.embla');
const embla = EmblaCarousel(emblaNode);
embla.on('select', () => {
console.log('Slide selected:', embla.selectedScrollSnap());
});Swiper is a modern touch slider with hardware-accelerated transitions and a wide range of features. It is highly customizable and supports various effects, autoplay, and responsive breakpoints. Compared to Embla Carousel, Swiper offers more built-in features and effects but may be heavier in terms of bundle size.
Slick Carousel is a popular and fully-featured carousel library that supports multiple breakpoints, lazy loading, and various transition effects. It is easy to set up and use but may not be as lightweight or modular as Embla Carousel.
React Slick is a React wrapper for the Slick Carousel library. It provides the same features as Slick Carousel but is designed specifically for React applications. It offers a simple API for integrating carousels into React components. Compared to Embla Carousel, React Slick is more tailored for React but may not offer the same level of customization and modularity.
An extensible low level carousel for the web, written in TypeScript.
Embla’s purpose is to provide a low level carousel and allow developers to extend it by using its available methods. Extend it with some basic JavaScript and build awesome physics simulated carousels. It’s dependency free and 100% open source.
Try it on the Demo Page or CodeSandbox ✨.
Responsive out of the box - Choose any %-based slide widths.Seamless loop effect - No pauses or previous/next button throttling.Hardware accelerated - Smooth physics simulated animations.Extensible rich API - Comes with a low-level API to control the carousel.Realistic drag handling - Authentic cross device drag behaviour.If you are using a module bundler...
yarn add embla-carousel
import EmblaCarousel from 'embla-carousel'
...or manually inject this script into your website.
<script src="embla.min.js"></script>
Setup your HTML markup...
<div class="embla">
<div class="embla__container">
<div class="embla__slide">
Slide 1
</div>
<div class="embla__slide">
Slide 2
</div>
<div class="embla__slide">
Slide 3
</div>
</div>
</div>
...add some CSS...
.embla {
overflow: hidden;
}
.embla__container {
display: flex;
will-change: transform;
}
.embla__slide {
position: relative;
flex: 0 0 auto;
width: 100%;
}
...initialize the script and pass the element node...
const emblaNode = document.querySelector('.embla')
const options = { loop: true }
const embla = EmblaCarousel(emblaNode, options)
...and you're good to go!
Embla comes with a few optional settings that you can change by passing an object as the second argument. Default values are:
const embla = EmblaCarousel(emblaNode, {
align: 'center',
containerSelector: '*',
slidesToScroll: 1,
draggable: true,
dragFree: false,
loop: false,
speed: 10,
startIndex: 0,
selectedClass: 'is-selected',
draggableClass: 'is-draggable',
draggingClass: 'is-dragging',
})
align (string)
Align the slides relative to the carousel viewport. Possible values are 'start', 'center' and 'end'.
containerSelector (string)
The selector to use for the container that holds the slides. Embla will use all immediate children of this node as slides.
slidesToScroll (number)
Scrolls past given number of slides whether scroll is triggered by scrollNext(), scrollPrev() or scrollTo() methods as well as drag interactions.
draggable (boolean)
Allow mouse and touch interactions to move the carousel.
dragFree (boolean)
Determines if the carousel should snap to a slide position after mouse and touch interactions.
loop (boolean)
Determines if the carousel should loop when start or end is reached.
speed (number)
Carousel speed when using buttons to navigate. A higher number will make transitions faster. Pointer events are not affected by this.
startIndex (number)
Zero based index of the starting slide when carousel mounts.
selectedClass (string)
Classname that will be applied to the selected slide.
draggableClass (string)
Classname that will be applied to the wrapper when the carousel mounts if draggable: true.
draggingClass (string)
Classname that will be applied to the wrapper when a pointer is dragging the carousel.
Embla exposes a set of methods upon setup that can be used to control the carousel externally. Example usage looks like this:
embla.scrollNext()
embla.scrollTo(2)
embla.changeOptions({ loop: true })
embla.on('select', () => {
console.log(`Selected snap index is ${embla.selectedScrollSnap()}!`)
})
...and the methods are:
containerNode()
Returns the current container element node.
slideNodes()
Returns the slides as an array of element nodes.
scrollNext()
Scrolls to next snap point if possible. If loop: false and the carousel is on the last snap point this method will do nothing.
scrollPrev()
Scrolls to previous snap point if possible. If loop: false and the carousel is on the first snap point this method will do nothing.
scrollTo(index)
Scrolls to the snap point that matches the passed index. If loop: true the carousel will seek the closest way to the target.
canScrollPrev()
Returns if it's possible to scroll to a previous snap point. Note that if loop: true this will always return true.
canScrollNext()
Returns if it's possible to scroll to a next snap point. Note that if loop: true this will always return true.
selectedScrollSnap()
Returns the index of the selected snap point. Each snap point scrolls more than one slide if slidesToScroll > 1. Zero-based.
previousScrollSnap()
Returns the index of the previous snap point. Each snap point scrolls more than one slide if slidesToScroll > 1. Zero-based.
scrollSnapList()
Returns an array of all scroll snap points, each containing slide numbers and slide nodes. If total slide count is 4 and slidesToScroll: 2, it means that every scroll snap point contains 2 slides because any scroll triggered by scrollNext() or scrollPrev() will scroll 2 slides at a time.
changeOptions(options)
Applies passed options by doing all the necessary calculations and reinitialising the carousel from scratch.
on(event, callback)
Subscribes to a custom Embla event by firing the passed callback. Below is a list of events you can subscribe to:
init - When the carousel has been initialised for the first time.destroy - When the carousel has been destroyed.select - When a new target slide has been selected.resize - When window size changes.dragStart - When carousel dragging begins.dragEnd - When carousel dragging ends.off(event, callback)
Ends subscription to a custom Embla event by removing the passed callback. This works for all events listed on the on method.
destroy()
Removes all styles applied to DOM nodes and kills all event listeners for this Embla instance.
IE - 11
Edge - Latest 2 versions
Chrome - Latest 2 versions
Firefox - Latest 2 versions
Safari - Latest 2 versions
Thank you to all the people who already contributed to Embla Carousel 🙏!
Do you like this project and want to contribute to it?
I just want to support it: Thank you! Give it a star maybe ⭐?I want to spread the word: You're a star! Why not twitter or similar 📣?I want to get my hands dirty: Awesome! Read the contribution guidelines first 📋.Embla is MIT licensed.
Copyright © 2019-present, David Cetinkaya.
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A lightweight carousel library with fluid motion and great swipe precision
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