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Welcome to our updated collection of hand-picked free HTML and CSS slider code examples . These examples have been carefully curated from various online resources, including CodePen, GitHub , and more. This August 2023 update brings you 11 new items to explore and implement in your projects.

CSS sliders are a great way to improve the user experience on your website or application. They allow users to navigate through a series of items or images in a more interactive and engaging way. Moreover, they can be customized to match the look and feel of your project, ensuring a consistent and cohesive design.

We encourage you to explore this updated collection of CSS sliders. Each slider in our collection comes with its own set of features and design elements. Whether you’re a seasoned developer or just starting out, these sliders can serve as a valuable resource for your projects.

Remember, all these sliders are free to use and modify as per your requirements. So go ahead, check out the collection, and start adding a touch of interactivity to your projects today!

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Onboarding screens.

A set of onboarding screens in HTML/CSS/JS. A personal experiment with layering PNG icons, CSS3 transitions, & flexbox.

• Mario Duarte
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Image Comparison Slider

A simple and clean image comparison slider, fully responsive and touch ready made with CSS and jQuery.

• Matthew Steele
• July 19, 2017

Javascriptless Before/After Slider

A before and after slider with only html and css.

• Huw Llewellyn
• July 14, 2017

Before After 3 Layer Image Slider

Playing around with a new idea using my two layer before/after image slider. Keeping it minimal. Keeping it vanilla. Like it if it's useful :)

• Envato Tuts+
• May 15, 2017

Split Screen UI

A "split-screen" slider element with JavaScript.

• June 13, 2019
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• HTML (Haml) / CSS (SCSS)

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Pure css ecommerce slider.

Compatible browsers: Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari

Responsive: no

Dependencies: -

• July 11, 2018

Pure CSS Slider

Simple slider based on radio inputs. 100% pure HTML + CSS. Works also with arrow keys.

Responsive: yes

• Inner DonalLogue
• January 24, 2018

Slider Transition

Nice transition effect for fullscreen slider.

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Horizontal Parallax Sliding Slider

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• Alex Nozdriukhi
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Smooth 3D Perspective Slider

Responsive smooth 3D perspective slider on mouse move.

• David Lewis
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• Chris Neale
• August 7, 2022
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Multi Direction Slider Gallery

Pure CSS multi direction slider gallery.

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Responsive Faux 3D Content Scroller

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• Ivan Grozdic
• July 1, 2020

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• Charanjit Chana
• April 23, 2020

Pure CSS Slideshow

• December 9, 2019
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Images Opacity Slider

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Stacked Flexible Slides Layout

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Responsive Slider

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Building modern sliders with HTML, CSS, and Swiper

Editor’s note : This article was last updated by Carlos Mucuho on 29 February 2024 to cover how to style Swiper sliders using CSS, how to monitor slide progress using Swiper’s watchSlideProgress feature, and to provide an overview of the Swiper API’s advanced slider features, including autoplay and sliding to a specific slide.

Sliders are functional user interface units that organize pieces of information in a condensed and cyclical manner within a limited space. Sliders consist of the following components:

• Containers, or the boxes that house the slider components
• Slides, or the content area that includes text, images, videos, and buttons
• Navigation icons that guide users through the slides
• Pagination visualizers that serve as additional navigation, usually bullets or numbers placed on the bottom of the container

In addition, sliders are built with transition effects to avoid abrupt changes from one block of content to another. Building these sliders from scratch, and covering their components and transitions, can be intimidating. That is why in this article we will use Swiper to create modern, fast, responsive, and native (mobile-first) touch sliders with amazing transitions.

What is Swiper?

Swiper is a JavaScript library that creates modern touch sliders with hardware-accelerated transitions (utilizing GPU to offload graphic-intensive transitions and create smoother visuals) and excellent native behavior. Swiper is available for vanilla JavaScript, Angular, React, Vue.js, and Svelte.

Check out these examples of websites that use Swiper .

Swiper is a completely free and open source library with over 38.2k stars and 9.7k forks on GitHub . Some key features of Swiper include:

• Responsive design
• Image lazy loading
• Library agnostic
• Mobile-friendly
• Multi-row slide layout
• Flexbox layout
• Nested sliders
• Full navigation control
• Works on iOS, Android, and the latest desktop browsers
• RTL (right-to-left) layout
• Keyboard and mouse interaction and control
• Mutation observer

Getting started with Swiper

At the time of writing, Swiper is currently on v.11; however, check for the respective migration guide to upgrade from Swiper 10 to Swiper 11 or from Swiper 9 to Swiper 10 .

There are three options for importing Swiper into your project:

• Download and use Swiper assets locally here
• Use Swiper as a content delivery network (CDN) by adding the following to your HTML file head and body, respectively: <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/swiper@11/swiper-bundle.min.css" /> <script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/swiper@11/swiper-bundle.min.js"></script>
• Install from npm using the installation command $ npm install swiper

For this article, we will be using option two.

Defining the markup

The HTML markup to structure our project webpage, layout, and contents is shown in the image above. The HTML markup is as follows:

In the HTML markup, you can see that our project consists of five slides. Next, let’s style the default HTML markup using CSS as shown below:

Next, we initialize Swiper in this project with JavaScript. The JavaScript is as follows:

Note that the class in the Swiper container ".mySwiper" is used to create a Swiper object in the JavaScript file.

Implementing movement and navigation

For the default webpage, we can see that the five slides are overlapping each other, and there’s no way to view the slides one at a time except by using the mouse to swipe over.

This is not the most intuitive or clear way to communicate information. Swipers are supposed to be tools for displaying lots of information in a small space, so let’s see how we can improve this system with Swiper.

As we learned earlier, pagination is just a set of traditional bullets or numbers placed on the bottom of the container (in this case, the box that covers the slides). The pagination shows how many sliders are overlapping in the container:

It can easily be implemented on our default files by making some changes. On the HTML file, we need to add the pagination container under the sliders container as follows:

The CSS remains the same, but we need to make changes to our JavaScript file to initiate the pagination effect:

Now, our slider indicates how many slides we have in total, and which slide we are viewing at the moment:

Navigation, just like pagination, serves as a tool to guide through the slides with a click rather than swiping with the mouse. It consists of a left and right arrow located on the sides of the slides container:

Let’s make the respective changes to our default files. On our HTML file, just like the pagination, we need to add the navigation containers under the sliders container as follows:

Next, we need to add some styling to our CSS for arrow positioning (at the center of the slides container):

Then, we initiate the navigation effect on our JavaScript file as follows:

Here is what our slides look like now:

Scroll aids simple horizontal scrollable sliders moving from left to right. It can easily be implemented by making the following changes to the default settings.

First, on the HTML markup, we will be making changes to the Swiper container as follows:

Next, using the default CSS, let’s initiate the scroll effect on the JavaScript file as follows:

Now, you can see a scroll bar at the bottom of our slides:

Vertical means vertical pagination, which is just like the regular pagination we covered previously, but with the bullet points in a vertical orientation:

The HTML markup is the same as the horizontal pagination, we just need to specify the orientation in our JavaScript file as follows:

Now, we can see the slides moving up and down instead of side to side:

Nested sliders are a bit trickier. They are a combination of both the horizontal and vertical display of sliders with pagination to give you more information about the number of slides on each axis:

Let’s implement this using the default settings, on our HTML markup. The following changes should be made to the swiper container as follows:

Next, we need to specify some changes in our default CSS file to accommodate the vertical slide color as follows:

Then, we have to initiate both the vertical and horizontal sliders with pagination on our JavaScript script:

Monitoring slide progress

In addition to the standard navigation and pagination features, Swiper offers the ability to monitor slide progress, providing visual feedback for users as they navigate through the slider. This can be achieved by implementing the watchSlideProgress feature and, optionally, creating a custom progress bar using Swiper pagination.

On the HTML file, just like we did in the previous section, we need to add the pagination container under the sliders container:

Next, we need to revert the CSS code to the following:

Implementing watchSlideProgress allows you to track the progress of each slide as it transitions in and out of view. This can be useful for creating dynamic effects or triggering actions based on the slide’s position in the slider. To enable watchSlideProgress , add the following code to your Swiper initialization in the JavaScript file:

With watchSlidesProgress enabled, you can now access the progress of each slide using the progress property of the slide object. For example, this is the code to log the progress of each slide as it transitions:

To create a more interactive user experience, you can use the slide progress to update a progress bar. Swiper’s pagination feature can be customized to display a progress bar that reflects the current slide’s position. Here’s how you can create that:

In this configuration, Swiper’s pagination is set to display a progress bar ( type: "progressbar" ) instead of the default bullets or numbers. The progress bar will visually indicate the progress of the current slide relative to the total number of slides:

Styling sliders with CSS

Customizing your sliders’ appearance can greatly enhance your website’s visual appeal. With CSS, you can easily modify the colors, sizes, and positions of various slider components to match your design aesthetic. In this section, we’ll explore some common CSS techniques to style sliders created using Swiper.

We’re going to be using a Swiper container with pagination and navigation buttons. Open your HTML file and edit your Swiper container to look like the following:

And the following JavaScript code, which enables pagination and navigation buttons:

Slider container

The slider container is the outermost element that contains all the slider components. You can style it using CSS to adjust its size, position, and background color. For example, to make the slider container half its container width and give it a red background, you can use the following CSS:

Slides are the individual content blocks within the slider. You can style them to change their size, position, and appearance. For example, to make the slides less opaque and add a green border around them, you can use the following CSS:

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Navigation icons

Navigation icons are the buttons used to navigate between slides. You can style them to change their size, color, and position. For example, to make the navigation icons larger and change their color to black, you can use the following CSS:

You can also change the pagination indicators’ size, color, and position. For example, to make the pagination bullets larger and change their color to orange, you can use the following CSS:

These are just a few examples of how you can customize the appearance of your sliders. Feel free to experiment with different styles to create a slider that complements your website’s design.

Implementing transition effects

Sliders in web designs are incorporated with a range of transition effects to avoid overwhelming and abrupt shifts between blocks of information. For the context of this article, we will be focusing on the cube effect and the cards effect.

Cube effect

The cube effect transition makes the slides look like they are sides on a rotating cube. Changing from one slide to the next spins the cube to bring the desired slide to the front.

To implement the cube effect on our default files, we will make the following changes. First, in our HTML markup, we will update the swiper container as follows:

In the CSS, we have to make some changes to the swiper container selector by reducing the slide size to accommodate the effect transition, like so:

Next, we have to initiate a cube effect on our JavaScript file:

Here is the resulting cube transition:

Cards effect

This is a transition effect for shifting between slides, similar to the cube above. With the cards effect, each slide looks like a card being shuffled in a deck to bring the desired slide to the front.

The HTML and CSS are the same as the cube effect, just change the effect to cards as follows:

Implementing sliders for image galleries

In this section, we will look at some sliders that are ideal for images or galleries. In my opinion, two great options for gallery sliders are thumb galleries and lazy loading, which we will learn how to implement in the following sections.

Thumb galleries

This slider consists of a compressed preview image of the original that is used as a placeholder. The thumbnail image should be smaller than the original, but the exact size is up to you. This slider creates a simple thumbnail gallery module to hold content and also functions as a means of navigation.

Using the default settings, we can implement this by making changes to our default HTML markup as follows:

Next, we need to make changes to our CSS to add the slider and thumbnails inside our swiper container as follows:

Then, we initiate the thumb gallery sliders on our default JavaScript file:

Lazy loading

Lazy loading is a strategy that delays the loading or initialization of resources until they are needed to reduce page load time and save system resources. Just imagine a user downloading the entire gallery in the previous use case, but the user leaves after viewing only the first slide; it results in wasted memory and bandwidth.

Lazy loading occurs in some users’ interactions such as navigation and scrolling. To see the lazy loading effect, we will be using images from Pexels .

To begin, in the default HTML file, make the following changes on the slider container:

On the default CSS file, remove all stylings related to the swiper class and add the following styling:

Next, we need to initiate the lazy loading effect on our JavaScript file like so:

Here is the lazy loading in action:

Custom controls

These controls are just a few ways to navigate through the slides. They are relatively simple to implement, we just need to specify them in the JavaScript file to take effect. Let’s look at three of the most popular.

First is keyboard control. This control utilizes the navigation keys on the keyboard (arrows keys or WASD) to control the shifting of slides. It can be initiated by adding the following to the swiper object:

Second is mousewheel control: This control aids the navigation of slides via scrolling the mouse. This is ideal for vertical sliders, as the mousewheel can quickly scroll through the content. It can be initiated by adding the following to the swiper object in the JavaScript:

The final custom control is the grab cursor. This is an intuitive control that allows the mouse cursor to grab content and move it in different directions to navigate through the slides. It can be initialized on the JavaScript as follows:

Enhancing sliders with the Swiper API

The Swiper API offers advanced features that can enhance the functionality and interactivity of your sliders. In this section, we will explore some powerful features of the Swiper API, such as autoplay, and its ability to handle complex navigation scenarios.

Swiper allows you to create autoplay sliders that automatically advance to the next slide at a specified interval. This can be useful for creating interactive presentations or showcasing content.

For this demonstration, you will use the nested navigation example’s HTML, CSS, and JS code. On the JavaScript file, add the autoplay property to the first swiper:

The autoplay property added to the first swiper allows you to create an autoplay slider, which automatically advances to the next slide at a specified interval (1 second):

Slide to a specific slide

You can use the slideTo method to navigate to a specific slide programmatically. This can be useful for creating custom navigation controls or implementing navigation based on user interactions.

On the JavaScript file, remove the autoplay property from the first swiper instance and add the code below the second swiper instance:

Here the code uses the slideTo method to control the first swiper and navigate to the slide with index 2 (third slide) after 1.5 seconds and then navigate to the slide with index 0 (first slide )after 3 seconds:

Next/Previous slide

Swiper also provides the slideNext and slidePrev methods to navigate to the next or previous slide. On the JavaScript file, add the following code below the Swiper instances:

Here the code uses the slideNext method to control the first swiper and navigate to the next slide after 1.5 seconds and then uses the slidePrev method to navigate to the previous after 3 seconds:

Control multiple Swiper instances

If you have multiple Swiper instances on a page, you can control them independently using their respective methods. On the JavaScript file, add the following code below the Swiper instances:

In the code above, you used the slideTo method to control the first swiper (with horizontal slides) and navigate to the slide with index 2 (the third horizontal slide and also the first vertical slide) after 1.5 seconds. Next, you used the slideNext method to control the second swiper (with vertical slides) and navigate to the next vertical slide after 3 seconds:

Sliders are important web design units that deserve special attention. Despite their pros in managing content in a space, they have some cons such as inhibiting SEO strategies and creating UX blunders. Sliders are a matter of personal preference, but when implemented efficiently, can produce a favorable impression of your web design. Should you decide to include them in your next project, Swiper is a great tool to consider.

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Beautiful Examples of Sliders in Website Design

Website Examples Nataly Birch • May 26, 2022 • 21 minutes READ

Sliders in web design are one of the most controversial user interface units. Some people love them; some people hate them. The same goes to web developers: some developers cannot imagine a website without them; others never use them.

The main reason for such disagreement is that while websites sliders are great instruments for displaying lots of information within small space, at the same time, they can be SEO-killers, user experience blunders, and destroyers of marketing strategies . Therefore, with such strong arguments for and against, using sliders in web design is always a case of personal preferences.

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Let us consider the essentials and pros and cons of sliders in web design as well as beautiful websites sliders examples so that you can decide on our own whether to use carousels in your next project or not.

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Websites Sliders: Essentials

In essence, a website slider is just a carousel for displaying well-organized pieces of information one by one in a cycle. Its main constituents are:

• Container, a box that covers everything.
• Slide, a place where the content sits. Here you can add your piece of information: images, videos , titles, text, buttons , and much more.
• Navigation, a tool for guiding through the slides. It can be left and right arrows, plain “prev” and “next” located on the sides, or even classic music player-inspired controls that let people control autoplay and pause options.
• Pagination, aka additional navigation. It can be traditional bullets or numbers placed on the bottom of the box, or some modern solutions like a set of short lines arranged in a stack.

On top of that, sliders in web design have a range of transition effects to avoid abrupt and overwhelming shifting between blocks of information. Modern websites sliders examples are also populated with dynamic effects, interactive features, and various pioneering tricks.

There are many ways to create a slider. You can use Bootstrap , jQuery plugins , or simply build everything from scratch. In this case, consider these helpful tutorials:

Good Reasons for Using Slider in Web Design

Although a large share of developers talks colleagues out of using sliders in web design, there are some good reasons for using carousels on your website.

First, if you do not have much space but want to deliver lots of information, then carousels are just irreplaceable. No one likes to read long pages. With a compact and neat structure, carousels help to create a comfortable user experience. When the information is dished up in bite-sized portions and occupies a relatively small area, it is much easier to zero in on it, digest it and get real value.

Secondly, website sliders can be critical in achieving goals in the marketing strategy. Imagine you have an e-commerce store. Chances are you have a series of photoshoots of products. Predictably, you want to show these products under various angles or create a product tour so that your clients can fully appreciate the potential and value of the offer. A slider will demonstrate all these shots and keep prospects engaged despite their short attention spans.

Finally, there are many websites sliders examples with testimonials that build trust and credibility in the online audience. Instead of creating a long page with numerous clients’ feedbacks, it is much better to gather everything under one roof, set a comfortable pace for cycling, and auto-play the carousel.

There are many other compelling reasons for using sliders in web design, such as

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• Make an impression on the hero area .
• Reinforce the impact of the overall design and experience.
• Show highlights engaging users before the main content.
• Provide helpful visual material for the content.
• Demonstrate not one but two or three new additions or popular offers.
• Draw the user’s attention and focus it on one section.
• Display text snippets elegantly and unobtrusively.
• Enrich content with information right inside the reading flow.
• Create a promotional landing page.
• Power modern storytelling experiences, especially those that need to cover lots of information.

Personal portfolio of Tomek Michalski

Cons of Sliders in Web Design

We have already outlined some strong reasons for using sliders in web design. It is time to throw some cold water on everything since there is a number of valid cons:

• The poorly-made slider is considered bad by search engines. It can easily ruin your SEO scores.
• The slider may slow down the website. Not only does it negatively influence user experience, but it is also bad for search engines since Google considers the website’s speed as weighty criteria for ranking.
• According to statistics, people do not like to click on carousels or CTAs in slides. Therefore, they are almost useless for increasing conversion rates .
• Too many options may confuse customers and make them even more indecisive.
• The slider may work incorrectly on small screens due to poor optimization. This can scare away mobile audience that is prevailing these days.
• In a small screen, content in the slider may be challenging to interact with. Therefore, the carousel requires special styles and behavior for mobile telephones and tablets.
• Some people consider sliders as advertisement banners, ignoring them completely.
• If the browser does not support JavaScript or some modern CSS features, then the slider may break the entire design and structure.
• Majority websites sliders do not meet accessibility requirements making them blind spots for disabled people.

Some of these disadvantages are serious, like, bad ranking in Google or poor accessibility. However, there is no obstacle insurmountable. For instance, if your slider affects page load speed due to heavy jQuery scripts, then it should be revised and properly optimized . The same can be done with the majority of items in the list.

When the slider is well-thought-out, there is no reason to avoid it. Let us consider some good tips on how to use sliders in web design along with good websites sliders examples.

How to Use Sliders in Web Design: Tips

The web is teeming with websites sliders examples, but not all of them bring benefits to the projects.

The deal is, your slider may have an impressive design or mind-blowing interactive features that make it look like a top-notch user interface element. However, if it does not bring value to the audience or even worse if it conflicts with marketing strategies or upsets the user experience, it will be useless or even harmful.

Consider two sliders examples that demonstrate how you can fail the mission even with an awesome idea in the core.

Panamaera is a digital agency with creative juice flowing. The company has a single screen website that is a popular choice these days.

Predictably, the horizontal slider is a heart and soul of it. It comfortably accommodates all the favorite works presented as short videos. It is spiced up with inspiring transition effects and mouse-based interactivity.

Without a doubt, the carousel does its job well: it displays content and draws attention with its modern look, but it lacks in good user experience. The reason for that is banal: navigation is a real nightmare.

There are no apparent ways to move through the slides. You will not find here customary left and right arrows as well as prev and next buttons. The bullets-based pagination is also missing. All you have is just a microscopic serial number that indicates the current slide. To make matters worse, the speed of cycling is high; you have to switch your attention all the time.

The rule of thumb: users should always be in control, and a way to gain this control should be evident from the get-go. No navigation – no user experience.

The same goes to the personal portfolio of Rik Wanders .

Again, we can see a one-screen promo page where horizontal slider underlies the aesthetics. Unlike the previous example, it does not have any intricate features or modern tricks. Though, it certainly does have a sense of style.

What about navigation? Well, it is here where the shoe pinches. If you want to shift between slides manually, then you need to guess how to do this since there is no navigation nor pagination nor thumbnails, whatsoever. The catch is you need to use the keyboard to shift between slides. Therefore, for regular people who are accustomed to using a mouse for surfing through the web, it can be a true challenge to figure out that.

Rik Wanders

To deliver result with the slider, stick to these basic rules:

• Always provide navigation. Do not rely on user’s instincts on figuring out how to deal with the component by themselves. Navigation is must-have—the more obvious, the better. Side arrows are commonly used for this purpose. Stick to this convention since it will save you from lots of misunderstandings and disappointments.
• If it fits your design, add pagination. Although it is not critical to have pagination, nevertheless, it is highly recommended to have an extra type of navigation in a bank.
• Navigation should meet touch-screen devices. Specifically, your users should be allowed to drag slides or swipe through slides.
• Set the delay time properly. If your users do not have enough time to read the information on the slide, they will be gutted and just skip this section or even worse go away.
• If you want to say something important, say it on the first slide. Due to the short attention span and banner blindness, users may simply ignore interaction with the website slider. However, one thing is for sure; they will certainly see the first slide, so chances are they will get its message.
• Do not overdo with the effects. If you have an impressive transition effect, maybe WebGL-powered interactive features inbuilt in each slide will be a little too much. Use only one intricate solution.
• Use WebGL, Three.js, and other high-end libraries with caution. Remember, not all users will be capable of seeing them in action. Not only because their browsers may not support them, but also because these solutions may slow down their PCs or laptops.
• Make slider accessible for all groups of people. For example, set alts for images, supply HTML blocks with additional information for read-only devices, etc.
• Test a slider across all screen sizes, browsers, and devices to provide a consistent experience for users.

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Types of Sliders in Web Design

Sliders in web design can be classified according to various criteria. For example, depending on a purpose, we can break them into several categories:

• Hero area sliders to enhance the first impression.
• Presentation sliders to display portfolio pieces.
• Text snippet carousels.
• Showreels, sliders that include short videos of the most impressive works.
• Informational sliders to support the content with accompanying visual material as well as provide extra data neatly and compactly.
• Testimonial sliders to reinforce the brand and company.
• Product sliders, etc.

Depending on the design and experience, we can break them into other categories:

• image sliders;
• video sliders;
• dynamic sliders;
• interactive sliders;
• 3D sliders, etc.

However, in general, we outline just two main types: horizontal sliders and vertical sliders.

Horizontal Sliders in Web Design

Though it is hard to say when the first slider was born, however, it all started with the horizontal one. It was and still is a top choice among web developers. Therefore, we can see a whole range of horizontal sliders examples on the web. Let us consider some of them.

Examples of Horizontal Sliders in Web Design

The first one to consider is the Personal portfolio of Yannis Yannakopoulos. The portfolio is mind-blowing. It is impressive and original. It seems that Yannis perfectly knows how to get the most out of a slider in web design

The slideshow provides a solid foundation for the artist to show off. It has modern tricks and extravagant solutions, including mouse-based interactivity that makes it look incredible. Also, the artist has taken care of handy navigation, putting the user in the driver’s seat.

Another case in point and another personal portfolio ; this time it is a personal website of Gosha Khidzhakadze. Unlike Yannis, Gosha has gone for bite-sized slides. As a result, we can see two and even three different slides simultaneously. However, they do not interfere with each other. On the contrary, they complement each other reinforcing the idea.

What’s more, even though slides have intricate hover effects, still the carousel is used as a supporting device. Placed on the back, it gives way to the overwhelming title “Gosha,” thereby contributing to the overall aesthetics, supporting the brand identity, and hinting about the artistic and professional level of an owner.

Vertical Sliders in Web Design

Although vertical sliders in web design are not as popular as horizontal ones, though they have certainly carved a niche for themselves. Consider some everyday situations when vertical sliders are top choices.

• A vertical slider is a great solution when the developer wants to surprise the audience with an unexpected twist without reinventing the wheel. In this particular case, shifting between slides along Y-axis may easily do the work.
• A vertical slider is an excellent basis on which you can build on extravagant solutions for hero areas. As a rule, this approach can be seen in personal portfolios whose welcome screens are jazzed up with modern interactions and fancy dynamic effects.
• The vertical sliders power many modern storytelling experiences, especially those that need to tell a story in small, easily digestible and appetizing portions.
• A vertical slider is used to create single-page microsites .

Consider two representative vertical sliders examples.

Examples of Vertical Sliders in Web Design

Climate History is a typical website slider example of nowadays that lures in the online audience with a splendid storytelling experience. The website aims to raise awareness about the burning issue without scaring people away.  Therefore, the vertical slider where the content and dynamic solutions create a perfect symbiosis is just what the doctor ordered.

Here you can see 14 slides. Can you imagine a horizontal slider with the same amount? I bet it will kill the mood instantly. However, this is not a case. A vertical slider deals with this situation flawlessly. It tells the story and, at the same time, keeps people engaged.

Although the official website of Cloudforce cannot boast of the same impressive amount of slides, it has just 6; still, it is enough to create an impression.

Here a vertical slider is used to create a small, compact yet impressive microsite. It introduces a story behind the brand in a stylish manner. Each slide effectively represents the company. You can even see here a carousel on one of the slides. The user experience is engaging and intriguing. The idea is smart and well-realized.

Cloudforce, Climate History, personal portfolios of Yannis Yannakopoulos, and Gosha Khidzhakadze are fantastic websites sliders examples of nowadays. Let us consider some more modern sliders examples so that you can see the diversity of solutions and approaches that are used to take this fundamental UI element to the next level.

Modern Sliders Examples

The interactive presentation is what makes the statement these days. Everything static is boring. Therefore, the web developers delight the online crowd with a sheer diversity of dynamic solutions.

The current state of technologies allows developers to let their imagination run riot. As a result, we can see an accelerating trend of improving carousels with the help of pioneering techniques. Sophisticated transition effects, fancy mouse-based interactions, hotspots , 3D scenes are some of those incredible things. Consider some real-life websites sliders examples with inspiring ideas.

Bite-sized Sliders

Personal portfolio of Kelly Milligan is one of those sliders examples that will surprise you with its clever usage of whitespace. You will not see here an overpowering full-screen drama. The hero area features just a relatively small rectangle placed at the heart of the page.

However, it does not mean that the solution is modest and uncompetitive. Indeed, it is just the reverse. Such an unusual capsule approach instantly catches an eye. On top of that, it has a remarkable transition effect and mouse interactions that transform it into a mere delight to explore.

Mouse Wheel Navigation

Skal is another website slider example where the content is displayed in small portions. We saw this kind of traditional carousel a million times at the dawn of horizontal sliders. However, this one was reimagined with the help of modern solutions.  As a result, we can enjoy a blast from the past that brings positive emotions and, at the same time, pleases the audience with some creative tricks.

Note two things. First, the slider keeps a low profile that lets the main tagline shine.

Second, you will not see here traditional navigation nor pagination. You should switch between slides with the help of mouse wheel. At some point, it may be confusing; however, the team has taken care of this issue by making navigation blatantly obvious.

Mouse Interactions

Mouse interactions have become an integral part of modern websites. This fast-growing mainstream is particularly evident in hero areas. Therefore, it comes as no surprise that sliders in web design are packed with such features. Consider Peak’n Film , an excellent website slider example, as a vivid proof.

The homepage carousel delights users with its compact arrangement. There are no full-screen images, whatsoever. Each slide occupies half of the available space sitting right in the heart of the screen. At first, it seems that there is a bulk of fresh air due to the generous amount of whitespace on the sides. However, everything changes when you start to move your mouse cursor.

First, you can see that the slider area is much bigger since the previous and next slides can be seen on the sides when you hover over them. Secondly, the mouse is in charge here. It activates captions and movement. Besides, it becomes a call-to-action button . Smart.

Cool Transition Effects

Fancy transition effects are another vast area to explore. It is here where developers reveal all their creative potential. Although these effects may cardinally slow down the website and make user’s PC go wild, nevertheless, when done right, they bring nothing but a pleasure to the experience. Consider Harcome as a fantastic slider example where block reveal animation produces a powerful impression. Note several things. This is a horizontal slider with a classic sliding effect. However, it does not look outdated; on the contrary, it looks refreshing, stylish, and modern. The thing is the team has improved this old-school approach with several tricks. So what have they done?

• They have added airy feel by using huge margins.
• They have opted in favor of elegant line style graphics that give a sense of subtlety to the aesthetics.
• They have reimagined the trivial sliding effect with the help of block reveal animation .

Content Sliders or simply sliders as we call them have become an almost integral part of web designing. While we all know that the concept of web designing is based on adding an attractive visual effect to the web page, these sliders help a lot in the business. Now, the question is what are these sliders? Content sliders are a set of an exceptionally resourceful variety of navigation tools that are utilized to present different types of information (images or pictures, posts or blogs, variety of news as well as information about different types of products and their features) in the web pages.

Various forms of sliders are available to make your web page look more attractive. They range from sliders that automatically present a slideshow to those which get activated through the usage of a specific tab or button. The high popularity of the modern web pages and blogs can be attributed to the successful usage of the sliders which act as focal points on the web pages and are indeed one of the smartest ways of online interaction between the users across the globe.

In this article, we will discuss the different types of sliders used. With more and more competition in the virtual world of online business, new designs and concepts of sliders are being innovated every day. There are sliders that contain stylish and gorgeous layouts. The user can navigate through these sliders and change the images by using arrows. Certain sliders contain highly textured backgrounds containing excellent color designs which attract the users easily.

As discussed earlier, apart from the conventional sliders, there are certain sliders that change automatically from one image to another. However, the images in these sliders can also be changed by clicking a tiny button. There are some sliders that present a slide show when activated. These sliders have an extremely beguiling as well as a pleasing effect on the user. You can also move from one image to another by a simple click of an arrow or tab. Certain sliders contain images or descriptions of painting or drawing, museums, and other forms of human craftsmanship. They contain a series of images or information that can be gone through by simple clicks of the mouse.

Other Examples of Sliders in Web Design

Stackslider: 3d image slider.

The slider is tailored to the fun. Coming with a lovely 3d feeling and some catchy twists, it will definitely become a highlight of your project, which in addition is aimed to place your multimedia content on a prominent place.

Grow Interactive

Grow Interactive’s slider has to cover lots of content both multimedia and textual and display it in a non-intrusive way. Not much white space worsens the situation. However, compactly arranged and neatly formatted blocks with data on the right, and a series of thumbnails are managed to save the day.

Mark Dearman

Mark Dearmn’s portfolio incorporates a plain yet elegant content slider that skillfully combines areas for image and description. The design aesthetics perfectly echoes with the overall theme, while simple control buttons provide users with an intuitive tool for browsing through the work section.

The layout of Bitfoundry’s main slider is anything but conventional. There is a distinctive area for HTML content supported by a set of circular graphics that serve as a navigation. What does strike the eye is a design that has a strong dose of creativity and refinement. Soft coloring, ornamental details, neat structure, sleek shadow, and gradient buttons handle the fantastic appearance.

BigEye Creative

BigEye Creative has a seamless slider that ideally fits the overall design and complements the general feeling. It offers 2 plain arrows for navigation that is quite sufficient to move comfortably through the small number of items.

Büro Maisengasse

Büro Maisengasse’s front page is marked by a unique content slider that at first glance seems to be conventional and boring. However, everything changes when you hit a next or previous button, and the new portion of data appears. The information is broken into digestible pieces that are beautifully framed. The transition is accompanied by some lovely effects that make the component look a bit alive.

Mathieu Clauss

Mathieu Clauss leverages a classic, elegant image slider that takes up the whole browser screen and adapts to its dimension, providing users that come from tablets and cell phones with an optimal experience. It skillfully sheds light on the best works of the artist, preventing them from overlooking even tiny detail.

Elless Design

The website shows the consistency in design. It is constructed from components that are made in the same style and fashion. Thus, the slider is based on a primary 2-tone coloring, uses some extras decorative tricks that spice up text and images, and has distinctive bold borders that set it apart from the environment.

Marco Rotoli

The content slider has the same illustrative aesthetics as the whole website. Subtle pattern, nifty circular controls, densely packed together text and lots of space for visuals seize the user’s attention and direct it to the important points.

Banneton’s homepage features a marvelous slider that boasts of an artistic nature and a certain charm. With its ribbon-style block for displaying description, a sophisticated textured backdrop that mimics a pile of old papers, tiny square-shaped buttons for navigation, it easily puts the selected content above everything else.

Instrument’s landing page has a clean and crisp appearance, so does the chief slider. It employs standard circular buttons for moving between items and has a solid dark box for showing extra information that thanks to its relatively wide size does not go unnoticed.

 Jérôme Détraz

Jérôme Détraz’s personal portfolio omits needless things, and as a result, the huge content slider instantly catches the eye. It has a flat style appearance and beautiful coloring that lets the component naturally blend into the composition. Each slide is split into two parts to showcase the information in a straightforward way.

Boerdam makes use of a regular full-screen slider that gives the featured content the top priority. For better readability, the designer utilizes solid stripes that stand in sharp contrast to foreground captions, bluish buttons that look eye-catching, and flat plain arrow-shaped buttons for simplifying navigation.

DigitalConvulsions

Digital Convulsions employs a seamless content slider well-suited to the composition. Tiny circular buttons with a glossy surface and emboss touch go well with semi-realistic device mockups. The background with the highlighting effect reinforces the composition.

HyperX Media

HyperX Media has a slider that looks simple yet functional. The structure is neat and sleek, double borders make the component more prominent and vivid, and the footer provides users with the aid panel that includes links to the other slides.

Doopsuiker Poppies

Doopsuiker Poppies’ slider works well with the whole environment. Surprisingly, it has a pretty plain design with no decorative elements at all, yet this only benefits it, allowing providing users with a comfortable experience. In such a complex and intricate composition, this oasis of simplicity and straightforwardness is exactly what is needed.

Philadelphia

Philadelphia makes use of a huge responsive slider that puts the content to the center stage. As befit, the title and description are supported by the solid and monotone backdrop that offers an optimal contrast for great readability.

TravelBuzz slider keeps with the style and occupies the leading position. Much like the previous example, it is a responsive component that does not have any clear boundaries. Set of tiny thumbnails on the bottom acts as navigation, while semi-transparent dark canvas is used to hold and display the extra data.

Wearesignals

Wearesignals’ primary slider takes up two-thirds of the browser screen width and is adjacent to the accordion. The latter slightly lessens its importance, yet it still seizes the attention and directs it to the images. The interesting detail is pagination that is performed as a set of solid squares that have an original active state.

Malcolm Reading Consultants

Malcolm Reading Consultants has a content slider that is broken into 3 even parts. Such a solution enables us to embrace more data simultaneously. It is also stretched to the top to act as a backdrop for the header section. The red backdrop for displaying description is an excellent choice here.

Rottefella’s slider employs the same coloring as the main website, ideally complementing the aesthetics. Huge bold titles look prominent and distinctive thanks to drastic pink shade. Darkened images allow the main text on the left to be easily readable and scannable.

Jax Vineyards

Jax Vineyards’ slider does not have much to boast of, yet it certainly looks elegant and stylish. The transparent backdrop makes the component an integral, almost inbuilt detail of the composition. Ultra-narrow arrows on the top may look a bit seamless; however, they fit like a glove.

Relogik’s slider does not break away from the whole theme line. Grayish coloring makes it look more elegant. Although gradient style CTA is too small for such area, yet due to a ton of white space, neat arrangement and scarce amount of text it does not get lost.

 Design Royale

Design Royale has an ultra-narrow slider that barely excels from the overall content flow. This is not a standard solution, yet it has its benefits. The navigation is straightforward, and nothing distracts the user’s attention from images and descriptions.

Purple Rock Scissors

Purple Rock Scissors has an enormous, almost overwhelming slider where the content seizes the central stage. Small arrows that sit in the lower right corner, tiny graphics and lots of white space point out that the content has the first prerogative.

Back Yard Burgers

It is hard to delineate boundaries of the slider, at least at first glance, since it ideally blends in, becoming an essential detail of the theme. It is a bit content-heavy, nevertheless, plain and clear arrows save users from getting lost.

FOX Classics

Fox Classics opts in favor of traditional image slider with an additional set of thumbnails on the bottom and tiny numeric buttons for navigation. It has a retro appeal and demonstrates skillful manipulations with color and typography that contribute to readability and make the component perfectly suitable for the layout.

Converse adopts a sophisticated and intricate take on a basic slider that treats HTML content as a piece of art. With a grunge background, rough frames, extra ornamental details it gets a creative endeavor and looks simply exceptional.

Tea Round App

Tea Round App showcases the featured content through a skeuomorphic-inspired slider that enables users to read and navigate comfortably. Such tiny artistic details as a paper note, gradient buttons, handwritten type and sketchy objects are the main visual force.

These Are Things

These are things’ has an elegant and fancy slider that matches the tone of the website. It incorporates distinctive traits such as ribbons, primary coloring, neat edges, clean borders and a subtle shadow. Light semitransparent wide stripe used for titles always stays in focus.

Little Black Dress Society

Little black dress’ slider helps engage users with relatively huge images and exquisite designs. An arc used as a top border paired with soft light coloring adds a required touch of femininity. The navigation bar presented, as usual, as a range of circles and additional play/stop/pause buttons for the infinite slideshow are nice features that are distinctive and well-marked.

La Masa Mimatta

La Masa Mimatta’s slider meets the overall design theme and intensifies the content. The transparent background lets it feel natural and native. Text and image do not interfere with each other, establishing a focal point on the screen.

Whatever controversial, sliders in web design deserve special attention. Of course, they have many cons, but still, they have many pros. What’s more, in some cases, they are even irreplaceable. Therefore, as a rule, using carousels is a matter of taste and personal opinion.

We have considered outstanding websites sliders examples where the user experience is flawless. Sometimes, these intricate slideshows pushed our PCs to the limit; still, they produced a favorable impression, requiring just some good optimization to be impeccable.

Tell us, what do you think about our collection of beautiful sliders examples? What is your favorite solution? Do you use sliders in web design?

If you feel the urge to familiarize users with the important content from the first seconds of their staying on the website then the slider can come in handy. It is easily perceived by users and in majority cases becoming the first component that seizes the attention. Although it does not cover a bulk of data, yet it dishes it up in digestible portions that are much more efficient.

Moreover, like the owners of the above-listed examples, you can always play with the design and layout, transforming it from a simple plain box that just shows images into a masterpiece with strong aesthetics and animation effects that liven up the content and strengthen the whole impression. However, you should always remember about the functionality and clear navigation tool.

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110+ Perfect CSS Sliders (Free Code + Demos)

Enjoy this huge, 100% free and open source collection of css slider code examples. the list includes css slider cards, comparison, fullscreen, responsive, and simple., 1. onboarding screens css slider.

A set of onboarding screens in HTML/CSS/JS. A personal experiment with layering PNG icons, CSS3 transitions, & flexbox.

2. Image Comparison Slider

A simple and clean image comparison slider, fully responsive and touch ready made with css and jquery.

3. Javascriptless Before/After Slider

I wanted to try and make a before and after slider with only html and css. Please let me know your thoughts!

4. Before After 3 Layer Image Slider (Vanilla)

Playing around with a new idea using my two layer before/after image slider. Keeping it minimal. Keeping it vanilla. Like it if it's useful :)

5. Split-Screen UI

Demo to accompany Adi Purdila’s tutorial How to Create a Split-Screen Slider With JavaScript.

6. Pure CSS Bug ECommerce Interactions

7. pure css slider.

Simple slider based on radio inputs. 100% pure html + css. Works also with arrow keys.

8. Slider Transition (WIP)

9. horizontal parallax sliding slider with swiper.js, 10. smooth 3d perspective slider.

Responsive (sort of?). Uses this technique for smooth transitions on mouse move - https://codepen.io/rachsmith/post/animation-tip-lerp

11. CSS Carousel With Keyboard Controls

Not recommended for production use. But it seemed like a fun idea to see how far I could take a form with radio inputs.

12. Pure CSS Carousel

13. smallest slider ever w/o js, 14. images opacity slider, 15. stacked flexible slides layout.

This example illustrates how to create layout of slides stacked on each other (especially useful for fade in/out transitions). It's achieved without setting their height and avoiding position: absolute; so they are fully flexible and easy to keep in normal page flow.

16. Yarden (Design By Olya Marchak)

17. masked text w/ navigation (css only), 18. oceanic overlays slider, 19. responsive css slider, 20. pure html/css slider + circular svg progress bar, 21. responsive css vertical slider with thumbnails.

An experiment to create a completely responsive vertical slider with thumbnails using only CSS, and retaining the aspect ratio of the images.

22. Flexbox Image Slider

A simple Flexbox image slider/carousel made with vanilla JavaScript.

23. Motion Blur Effect Using SVG Filters

24. greensock animated slider, 25. css-only image slider using svg patterns.

This is an experiment on how SVG patterns can help us create masked-like images for a CSS-only image slider. CHANGELOG Added will-change property to improve performance.

26. Parallax Horizontal Image Scroller -- No JS!

Parallax is like a tarpaulin: if you don’t nail down all the corners, it just doesn’t work right. With vertical scrolling parallax effects a dime a dozen, I was shocked at how hard it was to find a good horizontal parallax effect that wasn’t loaded with jquery or other miscellaneous ser... Read More

27. Checkbox Hack Slider

no checkbox at all :D but classic href='#..' plus :target combo photo by https://unsplash.com/@szvmanski

28. CSS Only Slider

29. pure css carousel, 30. css image slider w/ next/prev buttons.

A 100% pure CSS image slider with previous/next buttons and image transitions. Updated with simplified HTML and CSS, better image transitions and resized images.

31. Information Card Slider

32. elastic slider.

Photo slider working on desktop and mobile browsers.

33. Before After Image Slider (Vanilla)

I couldn't find a before after image slider that suited my purposes: - Vanilla JS - Minimal - Nice to look at - Like it if it's handy :)

34. Before & After Slider Gallery With SVG Masks

A little experiment for a before & after slider all inside a SVG. Masking makes it pretty simple. Since it's all SVG, the images and captions scale nicely together. GreenSock's Draggable and ThrowProps plugins were used for the slider control.

35. HTML5 Before & After Comparison Slider

Uses customised range input for slider. More details on my blog

36. Responsive Image Comparison Slider

37. html5 video before-and-after comparison slider.

Requested in response to my earlier comparison sliders. Full article.

38. Responsive Image Comparison Slider

39. jquery | fullscreen hero image slider (swipe panels theme), 40. velo slider - with borders.

A slider interaction thing using Velocity and Velocity effects (UI Pack) to enhance the animation. Animation is triggered via arrow keys, nav click, or scrolling jack. This version includes borders as part of the interaction.

41. Popout Slider

Simple slider in a minimal style to show off images. part of the image pops out on each slide. Has some lag issues due to the blur and hi res images.

42. Responsive Parallax Drag-slider With Transparent Letters

Doesn't work in IE. The thing is pretty easy customizable. You can safely change font, font size, font color, animation speed. The first letter of a new string in array in JS will appear on a new slide. Easy to create (or delete) a new slide: 1. Add new city in the array in JS. 2. Change... Read More

43. Fancy Slider

44. gray & white - skewed slider with scrolling.

This Skewed Slider with Scrolling based on Pure JS and CSS (without libraries).

45. Slider With Complex Animation And Half-collored Angled Text

46. slider parallax effect.

A slider inspired by a Dribbble created by Jardson Almeida (https://dribbble.com/shots/2518516-Nike-Promotion-Ads-Parallax-Effect).

47. Slider With Ripple Effect V1.1

This resource was inspired by the talented Tokito https://dribbble.com/shots/2705517-boldybae

48. Clip-Path Revealing Slider

49. preview slider.

GSAP + Slick slider slider with preview of previous/next slides

50. Full Page Slider

51. full slider prototype.

Hi, this slide demo was based on HelloThierry.com home slider, originally created by @jcsuzanne. With this demo I'm trying to achieve the same interactions results and improve my JS skills. Have fun!

52. Greensock Animated Slideshow [wip]

A fullscreen, sort of responsive, slideshow animated with Greensocks TweenLite/Tweenmax. This is work in progress, currently working on how to best pevent the slidein animations from firing when users click the next/prev button repeatedly. See: http://greensock.com/forums/topic/13282-m... Read More

53. Linear Slider With SplitText Effect | Greensock

54. full-screen slider ( gsap timeline ).

Full-Screen Slider ( GSAP Timeline ) #2: http://codepen.io/MAW/pen/yYradO/

55. Pure Css Slider With Custom Effects

56. fullscreen drag-slider with parallax.

Sort of responsive. Tested in Chrome/FF/last IE, everywhere looks fine. Source of inspiration - https://stupid-studio.com/ (their js is minified, so all code is mine, except some parts of svg, like viewBox/minHeight).

57. Actual Rotating Slider

Proof of concept rotating slider. Uses clip-path and lots of math.

58. Simple Responsive Fullscreen Slider

a simple fullscreen css & jQuery slider using translateX and translate3d smoothness! If this can be further simplified suggestions are most welcome.

59. Slider Transitions

Exploring some slider transitions. I am using Swiper slider with parallax option enabled. Playing with CSS filters mostly here.

60. GSAP Slider

Simple GSAP slider with some subtle tween animations

61. Slider UI

62. slider gsap | virsion: 02, 63. slice slider.

A little slicey transition slider using a simple add class deal. Wanted to see if I could get this interaction butter smooth, with just css transitions, as oppose to a animation lib like Velocity or GSAP. Have to smooth out the timings a bit and decide on the best approach for mobile (j... Read More

64. Slider Animation Effect

Leveraged CSS border-image & clip-path to create a slider animation effect. Inspiration from: https://dribbble.com/shots/2375246-Fashion-Butique-slider-animation

65. Flexbox Slider

Little slider built with flexbox. Somewhat responsive, and can have fixed elements alongside the slider area.

66. Canvas Slider

67. css only cupcake slider with sprinkles.

I like cupcakes....and sliders

68. Exploring UI Animation

This time I'm doing a slider concept designed by the guys at Kreativa Studio. I really loved the dribble post, so I give it a try. Hope you guys like it. https://dribbble.com/KreativaStudio

69. Exploring UI Animation 2

Exploring a slider concept designed by @Logancee https://dribbble.com/logancee

70. Exploring UI Animation 3

Exploring a slider concept designed by @Tokito https://dribbble.com/tokito (Chrome and Safari only)

71. Ecommerce Slider V2.1

Imagens by Unsplash

72. Clean Slider With Curved Background

73. css slider concept.

Exploring a slider concept designed by @ErnestAsanov and by the awesome team at Tubik Studio.

74. Slicing Images Pure Css And More

Enjoy the power of Css: Up&down each middle image and paginated slider with lightbox

75. Double Exposure Carousel Slider

Double exposure is photographic technique that combines 2 different images into a single image. Then I use this technique with canvas blend modes.

76. Tiny Circle Slider - Customized

Original javascript Tiny Circle Slider by Maarten Baijs Reconstructed from original design by Yadwinder Yadwinder Singh yadwindersingh.com html5coder.net earlier version without background-image this version with (encoded) SVG background-images Standalone SVG as a Github Gist

77. CSS Slider

Responsive CSS slider

78. Untranslatable

I read this article and I just had to. This is a simple slider experiment displaying words with beautiful meanings which cannot be directly translated. Focus: elegant typography and simple yet alluring transitions.

79. Image Slider With Masking Effect

The animation idea is to change the value of CSS clip path, thus make a masking effect. Works great on chrome and opera. There's some issue with Safari and Firefox doesn't support CSS Clip Path yet.

80. Dot Slider

Navigation bar. See more at https://dribbble.com/shots/2581199-Dot-navigation

81. Prism Effect Slider

Prism Effect Slider Autor EndeX

82. Sliding Background Gallery

83. dual slider.

a slider solution for an upcoming website.

84. Sequence.js - Mono

Read the tutorial. A product slider powered by Sequence.js. Sequence.js - The responsive CSS animation framework for creating unique sliders, presentations, banners, and other step-based applications. About Sequence.js | Sequence.js Theme Store | Fork Sequence.js on GitHub Follow @IanL... Read More

85. Tiny Circle Slider - Customized

86. responsive gta v slider, 87. a cubey slider (webkit).

It's like a slider but it rotates cubeishly for reasons unknown. (webkit)

88. CSS Hover Slider

89. image overlay slider, 90. pure css featured image slider, 91. feature slider, 92. animated cube slider, 93. simple image slider.

A simple JQuery image slider! Features: - Automatic slideshow - Pause on hover - Dynamic slide counter - Show/Hide controls on hover

94. Multi Axis Image Slider

95. 3d cube slider. pure css..

Cube slider, a small experiment with HTML5/CSS3 3d transforms.

96. CSS Slider

97. css product page, 98. real simple slider.

Idea: https://twitter.com/Real_CSS_Tricks/status/790218623113580544/photo/1

99. Split Slick Slideshow

Vertical slideshow in split screen

100. CSS3 Fullscreen Background Slideshow

101. animated css slider.

A small experiment which quickly turned into something more.

102. 3D Slider

3D slider html css3

103. Pure CSS Automated Slider With Caption Using CSS Animation

This is a Slider that does not use any JavaScript! Yes, it is possible! Just need to modify the animations % based on your preferences and the container width based on the number of slides. By default the whole loop of animation is 30 seconds, also here you can speed it up if you like.

104. Drag And Scroll Carousel - Slider

105. slider, 106. pure css horizontal slide.

Once again using the input:checked technique to trigger a horizontal sliding effect. No JS required.

Card Sliders

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Website carousel sliders: Why, how and when to use them (including 13 examples)

Let’s talk about website carousels, aka sliders, aka slideshows, aka galleries. 

It seems like the entire internet has its own variation, but collectively we all mean that design element with the moving content and oftentimes, displays three little dots on the bottom.

When it comes to carousels, you’re either on team 👏  or team 🙅. The first team typically includes the clients, the second team the web designers.

Here at Ycode, we’re Switzerland. We believe carousels can be the centerpieces that make your web design more appealing, but that they also have the potential to drag your website’s usability down.

In this article, we’ll look at carousel best practices (and what to avoid). Since carousels can be used for many occasions, we’ll show you different examples of sliders done well.

Carousel design best practices (or mostly, what not to do)

Though they are used on many websites, carousel designs can easily miss the mark. There are a few good reasons why. Let's start with some things to avoid before we tell you about what carousel best practices you should use.

👎 Don’ts: Carousel mistakes to avoid

Content: When a carousel wants to do too much in too little time, it can cause website visitors’ eyes to spin. Text can’t be properly read, information is missed and visitors lose interest.

Design: If a slider is poorly designed and won’t blend into your website design, it can get mistaken as an ad. As a result, people scroll right past the content. It’s called banner blindness , a web design phenomenon where people ignore content that resembles an ad—consciously or unconsciously.

SEO: From an SEO perspective, avoid multiple H1 headers if you use sliders as the first thing on the page. Each web page should have one H1 in its HTML code. If you use several H1s because of the different slides, Google may be confused about which keywords are the most important ones for that web page. Also, the website structure may not be clear. Both factors could negatively impact your ranking.

Mobile: For mobile devices, it’s best to go for manual sliders. Make sure gestures are supported (e.g. mobile users swiping to show the next slide) and that the arrows are clearly shown and large enough to press. If your slides contain text, check whether it’s readable on mobile screens.

Rotation: With our limited attention span these days, it’s hard to keep the user’s interest for longer than a few seconds. Since we’ve all got places to be, keep the slider-amount low (less than five) and give visitors the opportunity to control the carousel by showing slider controls. This makes sure people don’t have to sit and wait for the next slide.

👍 Do’s: Carousel best practices

Keep each slide simple so the information can be digested within seconds.

Make the design blend in with the rest of your website.

Let people control the rotation with clear arrows.

Have enough time between slides (5-10 seconds), or even better, ditch autoplay altogether.

Less is more (both in design and amount of slides).

Before you insert a carousel, ask: Will this add more value than static content?

Having second thoughts?

When in doubt, test both options and see which option generates a higher conversion rate. Oftentimes, clients ask for slideshows because they’re not clear on the message they want to promote first and foremost. Why not show everything? They think.

If that’s the case, the work is in crafting a more focused message—not using a slider. Or, pick the important USP (Unique Selling Point) and mention the other ones further down the page. People are more likely to scroll than to flip through your slides.

If you do decide it’s a hell yes, pick each slide intentionally. Don’t just add all your new blogs or products, but carefully pick the most important content that could generate the most interactivity from users.

13 website carousel examples

Now that you know what not to do, let’s look at carousel examples that are nailing it. Here are 13 website carousel examples, from homepage to product and image slideshows.

Homepage carousels

If you thought the camps were already divided enough, you haven’t met homepage sliders. Some root for placing them directly at the top (often seen in blog templates), while others don’t want to see them implemented anywhere above the fold.

The reason why people avoid placing a homepage carousel directly at the top is because they believe this space should be reserved for a clear message that entices the reader to scroll down and learn more. With carousels, it’s hard to convey one strong message. Plus, you’re not sure if people are seeing all slides or scrolling right past.

However, there are also plenty of people who love greeting visitors with a homepage carousel to instantly show featured stories or products.

Example 1: Nicole Gibbons Studio

The homepage carousel from Nicole Gibbons Studio works really well! That's good for a couple of reasons.

It has good functionality and adds value. Designer Nicole quickly shows different interior examples directly when people enter her website

The slides are manual, so the user decides if and at what pace they want to flip through

There’s no text overlap to take away from the imagery

Example 2: Urban Skin RX

We love this compact carousel from Urban Skin RX , as it has great accessibility. 

It incorporates two slides, both attractively designed in the same style as the rest of the website. The rotation time is set long enough to read the text. The big fonts and clear call to action (CTA) buttons make it easy to digest what the slide is about.

Note: If you scroll through the brand’s homepage, you’ll see that it's tailored to people who are already familiar with Urban Skin RX. The focus is on showcasing products, without explaining why someone needs them in the first place. That’s why a product slider fits the page—they don’t need the header space to show one clear message that motivates visitors to discover more.

Example 3: Mejuri

What we love about this carousel from jewelry shop Mejuri is that it shows two different things at once, without feeling overwhelming. 

The entire carousel contains three slides, of which each one has two options—see the campaign or shop the jewelry. The progression lines are subtly shown at the bottom, though you might need eagle eyes to spot this. This could be a point for optimization.

Example 4: Fresh Brothers Pizza

Who says a slider needs to span the full width of a page? You can also break up sections into grids and use smaller sliders, like on the homepage of Fresh Brothers Pizza .

Granted, with this web design layout, things can get a little much. Though the sliders do show visitors information, the eye is drawn to the big image on the left. Not everyone will see the slider information. However, since the information is about COVID measures and new pizzas that people will anyway see when making their order, this isn’t a big deal.

Product carousels

Product carousels are there to visually allure people into learning more about the product, and well, hopefully buying it!

These types of carousels are usually placed on one of two spots on e-commerce sites: the homepage or product page. The slider can show different products or one product in different ways (showing its features).

Example 5: Keys Soulcare

On this Keys Soulcare product page, a carousel is used to display each item that’s included in the Harmony ritual package. A slider fits the website design perfectly, as it lets visitors see all relevant information without having to scroll.

Example 6: KeepCup

This product carousel from KeepCup is placed in the middle of the e-commerce site and lets you easily browse through the brand’s most popular to-go cups. Take note of how the name, price, buy button and arrows are placed—super sleek (props to the graphic designers).

Example 7: Homesick

Candle company homesick uses a variety of slider elements on their e-commerce website, to showcase their candles as well as reviews and quotes from brands. 

Midway down the homepage, there’s this slideshow—a moving gallery of their best-selling candles (we love the scent concept!). Once you hover over an image slider, it stops and a slightly different image is shown (for example, showing the candle getting lit).

Example 8: Milk Bar

Milk Bar’s product pages are a joy to scroll through, and not just because the pictures are mouth-watering. Take The Cheerleader web page below, with the slider element on the left and all product details on the right, visitors see everything at first glance.

However, when you scroll down, you’ll see interactive banners and more product information like delivery, ingredients, similar treats and another carousel displaying customer reviews.

Content carousels

If you want to add a content carousel to your website, keep in mind that the most valuable piece of content has to be in the first slide. The initial slide will always get the most exposure, and impressions decrease after every additional slide.

Example 9: Art of Tea

On the website below from Art of Tea , you’ll see many different things in one fullscreen slider. 

The opening slider is a CTA to join their affiliate program. Next up are slides showing new tea tins, bags, bundles and shakers. One slide is also dedicated to joining their monthly tea club.

What this carousel web design does well is that the imagery shows what each slide is about, and the supporting text is kept to a minimum. One thing to improve is the buttons. When you choose buttons that only have an outline, it’s hard to see them clearly on the image.

TIP: The tea carousel contains a lot of sliders. Opt for a maximum of five slides per carousel, as it’s unlikely visitors will engage with more. After all the slides are shown, set it to start again (versus stopping at the last slide).

Example 10: Canva Design School

The Design School page from Canva is a good example of an instance where a carousel is more effective than any other website element. 

Since there’s a lot of content to be shown on the landing page, a carousel helps to display the different courses more compactly. For example, the tutorial section below takes up a lot more space compared to the slideshow.

Blog carousels

Many times WordPress templates for blogs come with an interactive slider element that automatically shows the latest articles. 

While this is a great feature, stay aware of which articles are shown. Some might not be as click-worthy but shown first in your homepage slider because they’re most recently published. In this case, it’s better to manually select the blogs you think will entice visitors to click.

Example 11: COCOCOZY

Interior design blogger Colette Shelton opens her blog with a slider showing a selection of her blogs. Once you hover over, the title of the blog is shown. On mobile, the picture is shown with the title below it.

TIP: Because of the nature of Colette’s blog (interior design), each picture adds value even without showing text. If pictures alone feel out of context, opt for a slider that shows the text without having to hover over it first.

Image carousels

Image carousels are often seen in portfolio-like websites, where it’s used to display pieces of the artist’s work. Make sure that your images are high-quality and speak for themselves, without the need for any additional text.

TIP: Compress your images as much as possible so your carousel loads fast. Especially in photo carousels, all the time your images are loading nothing but blank space is shown to the website visitor.

Example 12: mix design collective.

Mix Design Collective is a design company. Since their work is highly visual, it makes sense to open the website with the navigation and a photo slider directly below. 

The slideshow has a mix of images, from kitchens to bathrooms and living rooms, so visitors get an idea of the collective’s design style and services.

Comparison carousels

Sliders work well when users need to quickly scan through a variety of content or products. This is exactly the case when people are comparing items. Let’s have a look at some examples.

Example 13: Amazon

Arguably the most known comparison example comes from Amazon. On each product page, you’ll find a carousel with all the related products you could buy as well. In this case, a slider is more effective than static images, as it allows users to quickly browse through many similar products.

What’s your take on website carousels?

As you’ve read, web sliders can be a yes please or a please no. It all depends on how the element is used in your web design and how user-friendly the slider is to navigate. Make sure each slide serves a clear purpose and the overall user experience is great. If you can confidently say that a slider is the best element to display the content, you’re good to go.

What’s your final verdict on web carousels? Let us know in the comments.

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7 Great WordPress Slider Plugins for Captivating Websites

A WordPress slider plugin provides features for simple image slides, while the advanced solutions expand upon that with drag-and-drop builders , animations, and buttons.

If you’re interested in adding a slider to your website, begin with understanding how to use a slider so as to not cause problems on your site.

After that, take a look at the top features we like and the best WordPress slider plugins to choose from. We highlight elements like pricing, features, and use-case scenarios to ensure you pick the ideal slider plugin for your organization.

Guidance on Using WordPress Slider Plugins

Some people love sliders and others dislike them. I’d argue that the average WordPress user sees them on various websites and assumes it’s the right route to take. In addition, sliders allow website owners to skip the photo or video elimination process and throw five or ten photos on their homepage.

However, many developers and WordPress users understand that sliders, when done poorly, confuse site visitors, often don’t lead to higher conversions , slow down website load times , and take up an extraordinary amount of physical space on your homepage.

Oftentimes, slider plugins are excellent tools for building header images, even if you only stick to one slide. Therefore, we recommend using one or two images in the slider, minimizing its size, and decluttering as much as possible to ensure that your site runs fast and it’s not more of a nuisance than a help.

What to Look for in a WordPress Slider Plugin

Not all slider plugins are created equal. In fact, there are so many WordPress slider plugins on the market that you’re bound to stumble upon a few duds.

That’s why we’re inclined to lead the way with our research and outline the features we feel are most important when selecting one. This way, you don’t choose and pay for a slider plugin with unnecessary tools that clutter the interface. On the other hand, we don’t want you to settle for a limited slider just because it’s cheaper or the first option you find.

Here are the features we find most valuable:

• Slider templates that cater to multiple industries and designs , getting you started instantly.
• Drag-and-drop, or at least visual builders that allow for beautiful slider designs without coding.
• Responsive elements that either look good on mobile devices or remove the slider for mobile devices. This is extremely important since sliders often look terrible on phones and tablets.
• A library of design elements to transform your ideas into stunning visuals. These may include background images, icons, different fonts , and videos.
• Compatibility with WordPress themes and major plugins , along with add-ons and integrations that link to popular software and apps used by WordPress users.
• Options to make different variations of sliders, such as carousels or sliders that link to blog posts. It’s also nice to see support for dynamic content, sourcing content from other places like RSS feeds or your product pages.
• Social media integrations to instantly reveal your most recent posts and send people to your social media pages.
• Hero sections – or large visual callouts – that grab attention and convert visitors into new customers or followers.
• Various animations to bring user eyes to certain areas of the slider. These also work well for adding relevant fun and creativity to your website.
• Support for several media items and rich content like video and images , even GIFs .
• Project tools for categorizing and organizing your sliders and copying them to make your own templates for later use.
• Optimization tools such as lazy loading and image optimization to ensure that your sliders don’t slow down the website.
• Visual previews to see exactly what the slider looks like prior to publishing it on your website.
• Quick image editing, such as cropping, to remove the need for third-party editing tools like Photoshop.
• Multiple navigational elements like buttons to slide through the images and lightboxes to see larger versions of the photos.
• Potential integrations for ecommerce tools such as WooCommerce , expanding upon the media types you can have for product visuals.

Best WordPress Slider Plugin Options

After much analysis and comparing, we’ve cut down our list of the best WordPress sliders to the following. Feel free to click on one from the shortlist below to see the in-depth review.

1. Slider Revolution

Slider Revolution is developed by the folks at ThemePunch, the makers of yet another favorite called Essential Grid. Slider Revolution is one of the most popular slider plugins online, with tens of thousands of sales and excellent user reviews on CodeCanyon. It also sells on the ThemePunch website.

The plugin features incredible visual elements and themes made to look just like a professional graphic designer is on the job. The hero sections are meant to stand out for converting customers and the full web pages are great as a bonus.

The Slider Revolution plugin includes every element of a slider plugin you need, but it’s important to know that the tool is built primarily for developers. A beginner can definitely try it out, but there’s a learning curve.

Overall, Slider Revolution’s success can be attributed to the stellar customer support, hundreds of beautiful templates, and the add-ons that include elements for before and after pictures, reveals, and more.

Pricing starts at $29 per year for one website.

Other plans include the $70 per year option and go up to thousands per year depending on how many websites you plan to use it for.

CodeCanyon lists Slider Revolution at $59, so you’re better off buying it directly from the ThemePunch website.

Features That Make This a Top WordPress Slider Plugin

• A gorgeous visual editor that incorporates drag-and-drop editing, text management, and layers. Thousands of settings are packed into the editor, making it more akin to a powerhouse software like Photoshop.
• Over 200 templates for categories like hero slides, special effects slides, and carousels.
• Addons for effects like bubble morphing, paintbrush details, and before and after photos.
• A full media asset library to add animated layer groups, images, videos, and icons.
• Responsive sliders that snap into place on smaller devices. You can even remove the slider on mobile devices if that’s more your style.
• A timeline to customize your animations, movements, and slider lengths.
• Preview tools to evaluate what each slide looks like on various devices.
• One-click updates to activate new features whenever they come out.
• Linking to social media accounts to reveal recent posts and let people know about your social content.
• Support for rich content and videos and photo layers.
• Useful call to action buttons with a wide variety of customization options.
• A history module that lets you move back to older versions of the slider, helping with revising your history and seeing which elements are best to use now.
• Save and copy features to make a slide or slider and copy it to another website or use it again on the current site.
• Flexible modules for all design elements, helping you resize and adjust everything to your liking.
• A background library with many images and shapes to choose from and add to your slider.
• Image optimization and lazy loading for speeding up your loading times and cutting out the need for additional optimization plugins.

Who Should Consider Slider Revolution?

Slider Revolution is a top choice for developers . The pricing is affordable, especially when you start adding to multiple sites. It’s also essential for speeding up your design process with the help of media libraries and elegant templates. Slider Revolution provides the best way to make sliders appear professional, yet we will warn beginners that it’s not the easiest plugin to learn.

2. Smart Slider

Smart Slider offers a clean designer, several premade templates, and an editor with drag-and-drop modules. The concept behind the Smart Slider plugin is to provide the power of Slider Revolution without the somewhat complicated interface. The developers have definitely achieved a cleaner infrastructure, yet it’s still going to intimidate those who have never worked in web design before.

Having said that, we recommend all developers and designers take a look at Smart Slider as a viable alternative to Slider Revolution. The plugin boasts responsive elements, beautiful themes, and integrations for things like YouTube and WooCommerce . The animation effects come in handy for constructing timelines, allowing you to add animations and introduce them to the viewer at a specific point.

It’s clear that Smart Slider has a niche in the ecommerce department , as it fetches products and helps with adding a button to sell those items. We’ve also noticed that the Smart Slider ecosystem and community stand out. You can find loads of documentation and a community group to chat with others. We also like the personal support and video tutorials that really bring about a more visual learning experience.

Smart Slider sells for $35. This supports one site installation and is a one-time payment.

The Business plan goes to $150 for 10 sites, and the Unlimited plan is $250 for no restrictions on the number of sites.

Price is one differentiator between Slider Revolution and Smart Slider, seeing as how you receive lifetime support and upgrades for one fee with Smart Slider. On the other hand, the Slider Revolution plugin requires yearly payments.

• Multiple project types to extend your range of designs. These include blocks, carousels, or even full page website designs.
• Dynamic content linking so that your sliders reveal data from places like your blog or an RSS feed.
• Over 180 templates with various industry and design categories. You can change any element on the templates and save them for later.
• A slide library that is sort of like a smaller version of the templates. Add these into your templates if the starting designs aren’t exactly what you want.
• Layer support – with 24 layers – that allows for advanced customizations.
• SEO-friendly tools to optimize your images and follow best practices from search engines .
• Standard control elements for adding basic items like text, bullet points, and thumbnails.
• Compatibility with some of the most popular page builders on the market, such as Gutenberg and Elementor .
• A drag-and-drop editor with a modern and clean interface.
• Live previewing and responsive editing to know exactly what your designs look like before sending them for publication.
• Image editing inside the designer. This offers cropping and filters instead of having to complete these tasks in third-party editing software.
• Copy and paste tools – and export/import features – for publishing your creations elsewhere.
• Hotkeys and a right-click menu for rapid design.
• Support for more advanced design customizations with the help of CSS . You can also choose your typography , style styles, and background colors.
• Improved media offerings for adding background videos, overlaying images, and even having a lightbox.
• Dozens of animations that you can apply to layers and activate on any elements, like a text box or image.

Who Should Consider Smart Slider?

The Smart Slider plugin does the job for proficient web designers . We suggest it more than Slider Revolution if you’re a novice, but it’s still difficult to learn. Another component to consider is pricing. Smart Slider only has a one-time fee for unlimited upgrades and support, as opposed to the yearly pricing from competitors.

3. Master Slider

Master Slider exudes a specific type of elegance in its slider designs, offering functional and fresh templates for several types of industries and purposes. You can find templates for gyms and fitness blogs, along with basic business slides, restaurant options, and much more.

Parallax elements are included in many of the templates. It’s also clear that a focus on high-resolution imagery makes Master Slider useful for professional photographers and other creatives . You can choose from different layouts like flat landscape images or vertical tab sliders. Carousels are possible, and you can overlay content and buttons to grab attention.

The WordPress post sliders come in all shapes and sizes, allowing you to link to your posts and never run out of content in the slider. We enjoy the fullscreen slider with video background , seeing as how it incorporates overlaying text and a moving video behind that.

It’s also nice that the Master Slider plugin provides image slider mockups and designs for smartphones and tablets . This way, you won’t worry about whether or not the sliders look presentable on smaller devices, since these sliders, in particular, are made just for that.

Overall, Master Slider offers tons of features and a super smooth interface to build slides with animations on a timeline. The drag-and-drop builder presents a simple design process for beginners and the real-time previews give full control, similar to a movie-editing software. It doesn’t look as intimidating as Slider Revolution or Smart Slider, so the Master Slider plugin has our recommendation for business owners and beginners who still want that professional look.

Master Slider has a free, core plugin . The premium version starts at $17. They call that the jQuery Edition. The WordPress Pro Edition sells for $24.

Updates and support are free forever, so there’s no need to pay for a yearly package.

• A drag-and-drop designer with options for moving around slide transitions and the durations of those transitions.
• Real-time previewing to see how your animations act before publishing them to your website.
• An alignment and snapping tool for adjusting the position of any editor element.
• A visual style editor with access to over 650 Google Fonts and an import feature for bringing in custom CSS .
• Custom preset saving that copies a preset you’ve edited for later use.
• Transition editor with an instant preview and visual environment. You can add preset transitions or make your own.
• A visual button editor to ensure that all buttons have the colors and fonts that you require . It allows you to drop a button on any background and slider, combining all features together in one.
• A responsive design module and preview option to enable mobile support for your slides. Master Slider is tuned to respond to a wide variety of different viewing environments. It also has touch swipe navigation.
• Animated layers with support for beautiful slides with links and images. The elements move around and can have overlaying text.
• Options for parallax effects and over six interactive transitions, including waves, flows, and masks.
• Support for YouTube and Vimeo videos. The slide video background expands each video and includes overlays for making call to actions.
• A WooCommerce slider that showcases your products and replaces the default slider in WooCommerce.
• Several other sliders that pull from sources like Flickr , Facebook , and your blog .
• SEO-friendly elements with fields for markups and headings.
• Several slide skins to change the darkness or contrast or lighting of your slides.
• A unique control set on the frontend image slider, with items like bullets and arrows.

Who Should Consider Master Slider?

Master Slider provides a free core plugin and an extremely affordable premium option. Therefore, we like it for those on a budget who still want the professional features you would expect from a superior WordPress slider plugin.

It’s also a bit easier to use from an interface-building perspective, making it perfect for less experienced WordPress users. Finally, Master Slider serves as a WooCommerce slider alternative if you’re not fond of the default WooCommerce tools or you’d rather not get an extra plugin just for that feature.

4. MetaSlider

When it comes to SEO optimization, impressive UX elements, and access for coders, MetaSlider has you covered. It’s somewhat of a hybrid slider plugin, providing developer resources while also contributing to a beautiful user interface for those who aren’t interested in utilizing CSS or HTML.

MetaSlider features several templates and preset modules, including a post feed, layer slider, and video slider. You can add these slides to your online store or incorporate a stunning high-resolution slider for your photography website.

This is one of the more popular WordPress slider plugins, partly due to the free version, but also because the plugin provides intelligent image cropping and other editing tools inside the plugin. There’s unrestricted support for all types of images and slides, including captions and alt text to make sure your image SEO holds up for the search engines.

The backend includes visual building features, but it doesn’t have a full drag-and-drop builder. You can modify the theme, effects, and sizes, all within the WordPress dashboard . The simplistic nature of the MetaSlider plugin empowers users to begin from scratch and present a basic gallery that jumps from one image to another. You shouldn’t expect any advanced features with MetaSlider, yet it does provide developer access just in case you’d like to customize and move away from a standard image slider.

MetaSlider offers a free version .  Upgrade to the premium version for $39. This is for 1-2 websites.

Pricing increases as you add more sites.

Keep in mind, updates and premium support only come for one year, after which you must pay for an upgrade. On the other hand, you may opt to keep the plugin for a one-time fee and forget about the support and updates.

• A library of templates and demos to start the design process, some of which include image sliders, carousels, and thumbnail sliders.
• Support for ecommerce site sliders when placed on a product page .
• Unlimited slideshows for all pages and posts.
• SEO support for tagging images and inserting metadata that may help with improving your SEO .
• Touch-enabled features that show up nicely on mobile phones and tablets. This includes touch sliding.
• A smart image cropping function that eliminates the need for third-party editing software.
• Animated layer slides where you can place images, text, and buttons on top of the original layer.
• YouTube and Vimeo integrations to expand upon your slider resources and show videos instead of only images.
• An option to link a slider to your WordPress posts. Thumbnail navigation that’s easy to see and possible to edit.
• A WordPress-based theme editor that’s not all that advanced but familiar in style for WordPress users .

Who Should Consider MetaSlider?

The name of the game with MetaSlider is simplicity. Some people may feel that the MetaSlider designs seem bare or too simple. However, we know that developers often appreciate this configuration for minimizing performance issues and opening up options for customization. Therefore, we like MetaSlider for developers and companies that only require rudimentary sliders.

5. Royal Slider

Royal Slider takes a pragmatic approach, providing features that are necessary for making a simple slider, and that’s it. You’ll find a few advanced options – like the Flickr integration and HTML slides – but the goal with Royal Slider is to smoothly generate a slider without any difficulties.

This includes connecting to popular photography services like Flickr and 500px, leaving the work for Royal Slider to place them in your sliders and make them look good. It’s also a touch-friendly slider plugin that’s easy to navigate for both the users and the admins.

The plugin features over 10 templates and five skins. Pair that with over 100 options and it seems like Royal Slider is actually a fairly feature-packed solution. However, those are fairly low counts, in a good way.

We enjoy that you don’t have to sift through a long list of templates or think for a few minutes wherever you need to locate a setting. It’s a straightforward slider creator that also allows for CSS styles with the click of a button.

Royal Slider has one price point: $19. The only change to that is if you extend your customer support.

• Built-in editing tools, some of which function automatically, while others are meant for manual adjustments. Some of these tools include image resizing and caching elements.
• Multiple embedding options, such as a quick shortcode or a widget to place a slider in sidebars and footers. The plugin also supports embedding with PHP .
• User-experience boosters like smart lazy loading and auto-playing. The plugin also removes any blocking problems that you may find in other plugins, like when a slider blocks vertical browser scrolling or zooming. It’s all there to let the user do as they please.
• Mobile-friendliness with the help of responsive and dynamic modules . It’s touch-enabled for all devices and rather fast compared to other slider plugins.
• Content sourcing from several places such as images on your WordPress site or HTML text that you type in manually. Video sourcing comes from YouTube and Vimeo.
• Shortcodes and HTML options for inserting the sliders on your webpages.
• A slide markup editor that resides right in the WordPress dashboard. Over 30 variables allow for additions like descriptions and dates.
• Integrations with ecommerce platforms .
• Just over 10 templates, five skins, and more than 100 options to build your sliders.

Who Should Consider Royal Slider?

Royal Slider has the unique ability to integrate with Instagram, Flickr, and 500px. Therefore, it’s a go-to for professional photographers. The default post gallery and CSS editor also improves the workflow for designers and developers.

It appears that you don’t have to be a professional anything to utilize Royal Slider, so it’s not a bad choice for beginners as well. Having said that, our main recommendation is for photographers to think about using Royal Slider for their portfolio site .

6. Slider – Ultimate Responsive Image Slider

Slider has less of a modern feel but a solid following and a long history of making sliders that function on mobile devices, particularly for blogs. You can upload multiple images at once and modify settings for height, navigational buttons, and more. A shortcode comes with each slider to implement said slider on posts, pages, and even widgets.

Like we stated before, these designs won’t blow you away, yet they offer sleek and sharp images and smooth transitions to the other slides. The multiple slider formats involve variants like sliders with preview thumbnails and sliders that you drop in between blog post content.

The versatility of the plugin is truly what makes it stand out. A simple media upload starts the process. After that, all you have to do is copy the shortcode to see it anywhere on your website.

Furthermore, image resizing comes standard with the Slider plugin, and it maintains a level of resolution that’s worthwhile for all businesses. I’m not sure I’d go with this plugin if you’re a professional photographer, but the plainness of the sliders – and the intuitive design module – makes for a useful and simple pathway to launching website sliders.

The core plugin has most of the required features and is free to download. The premium version starts at $25 for one site and adds a few features. Expanding your use of the plugin on more websites involves higher fees, most of which look reasonable.

• Multiple layout options with settings for overlaying text and thumbnail previews.
• A visual backend editor that lets you drag images to different positions. It’s not a full drag-and-drop editor for the slides, but at least this helps with organizing your sliders.
• Multilingual tools for everyone to use the plugin.
• Support for a wide variety of screen sizes, devices, and browsers, efficiently delivering the content without sacrificing quality.
• Clone slider features that duplicate slider designs you’ve completed and want to utilize elsewhere on your website or for the future.
• Customization tools for changing around fonts, adjusting slider distancing, and labeling the photos in the presentation.
• Navigational bullets and other slider guidance icons that you can either remove or include with your design.
• SEO optimization without the need to complete much of the work yourself.
• An image uploader that supports bulk uploads. Pull these images from other sources and rest easy knowing that the majority of major photo file formats are supported .
• Support for unlimited images in each slider.
• The option to show multiple sliders on a single page or post.
• Simple and intuitive slide settings such as an autoplay feature and slide order filter. You can also modify the slide title, description, and where those text boxes appear on the slider.

Who Should Consider Slider?

The Slider plugin makes the most sense for those who crave a barebones design experience and slider result. If you’d rather not mess with advanced customization, this plugin may work for you.

It’s also fairly affordable for those on a budget.

7. Slider by 10Web

Slider by 10Web boasts a myriad of features for improving your user engagement with WordPress sliders. The customization tools assist with changing colors and effects and CSS elements. You can grab a user’s attention by featuring your WordPress blog posts or adding optimized preset designs that push customers to buttons and call to actions.

It’s an easy-to-configure plugin with support for unlimited slides and sliders. You can include multiple layers and add all the transitions you want. The layer effects are easy to understand and the image watermarking adds a unique feature that you won’t find in many other slider plugins.

Speaking of which, it’s clear that the Slider by 10Web plugin caters to both web designers and photographers, seeing as how you receive the image watermarking and a large collection of design tools to turn your sliders into works of art. From the parallax support to the slider imports and exports, Slider by 10Web presents the most useful settings to the user and doesn’t skimp when it comes to modern designs.

As for the actual preset designs, Slider by 10Web provides a portfolio of layouts to select from, including filmstrip, carousels, 3D sliders, and zoom sliders. The video sliders link to outside services, and the parallax functionality adds a bit of creativity without the bulkiness of other effects.

From a user’s perspective, Slider by 10Web stands strong as a manageable and feature-filled slider plugin.

It’s free for the core plugin. The premium version starts at $20 and goes up to $40 depending on the features and amount of support you desire. All plans max out at one year of support and updates, so renewing is required.

• A drag-and-drop interface for managing slides and the layers inside those slides. You place modules like text boxes and buttons to generate a presentation that’s suitable for your organization.
• Video slides that integrate with popular services like YouTube and Vimeo. You also have options to link to other video services if necessary.
• A responsive design that looks wonderful on all devices and resolutions.
• A carousel slider that grabs your attention and adds a unique effect to a website slider.
• A fullwidth slider option for extending how much space the images take up on the screen.
• A parallax effect that adds an illusion of depth and works well for multilayer sliders.
• Customizable tools for all sliders, such as social elements, media sources , and video options.
• Linking to your WordPress post feed, allowing you to share slider images from those posts and send people to the posts they click on.
• Unique transition effects such as the cube transition or the slice transition. Over 23 effects are included with the plugin, from simple ones like fades to interesting options you haven’t seen elsewhere.

Who Should Consider Slider by 10Web?

The Slider by 10Web plugin packs a decent number of layers and transition effects into a small package. Therefore, we recommend it for those looking for interesting effects that don’t take too much time to implement. It’s also a great plugin for videos, seeing as how you receive the YouTube and Vimeo support, but you also gain access to other video integrations you can’t find elsewhere.

Still Have Questions? Here’s a Summary of the Best WordPress Slider Plugins

Not every slider plugin you stumble upon online will satisfy your needs. If you’ve read through a few of our reviews above, you’ll realize that even the best WordPress slider plugins have pros and cons. Therefore, we understand that you still may find yourself a little confused when it comes to which plugin is right for your organization.

Here are some final, quick recommendations based on the primary features and pricing:

• Slider Revolution by ThemePunch – Consider this plugin if you’re a developer who wants an all-around slider plugin with beautiful templates and design tools.
• Smart Slider – Opt for this one if you’d like a more affordable plugin than Slider Revolution and some alternative design modules.
• Master Slider – We like this one for less experienced users on a budget, yet those who still want professional sliders.
• MetaSlider – Go with this plugin for its simplicity and barebones approach.
• Royal Slider – This is a go-to for photographers because of the integrations with Instagram, Flickr, and 500px.
• Slider – Ultimate Responsive Image Slider – Consider this plugin for its ultimate simplicity.
• Slider by 10Web – Here’s a great slider plugin for videos and making interesting transitions.

If you have any questions about finding a WordPress slider plugin, or you’d like to suggest other slider tools that work for you, write us a message in the comments below.

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Help! My Wife Only Works Two Days a Week. She Needs to Pick Up the Slack.

Our house is a mess..

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Dear Prudence,

My wife works two days a week and I work full-time in a hybrid situation. I can and do work from home a couple of days a week and it’s very flexible so I can often help out with the kids and give her some time to herself. I work 50-plus hour weeks routinely and frequently find myself burning some midnight oil at least once a week to meet deadlines. I don’t sleep much and it’s affecting my health. I’m doing my best to keep up with my work obligations, help around the house, and be a good husband/father. Our house is often a disaster—exceedingly messy—to the point where we can’t have anyone stop by our home unless we know they are coming well in advance.

I’ve recently become resentful about the time I’m taking away from life to cook, clean, keep yard work under control, and fix the many issues we have on our property. I think my wife can do more on the domestic front seeing as she works two days a week. I feel like it’s a misogynistic task but if the roles were reversed (and they have been), I ran a much tighter ship and kept a cleaner home. When our youngest was born, I stayed home for close to a year and approached our home like my job. I sort of miss it but my current profession is too lucrative to walk away from. I’d like my wife to spend less time watching TV or on social media and more time pulling her weight around the house but I don’t want to sound like Don Draper. Am I being unreasonable?

Dear Not Don,

Let me clarify something: It’s sexist to ask, “Can you please do more cleaning because you’re a woman?” It’s not sexist to ask, “Can you please do more cleaning because I am doing everything and it’s taking a toll on my health?” That said, you should get some more information about your wife’s workload, schedule, and perspective before you make your request.

My guess is that two things are going on here: 1) You and your wife have different standards when it comes to cleanliness, what qualifies as “exceedingly messy,” and how nice the house has to look for people to come over. This is common! But you two need to find a middle ground that you can live with. 2) She may not have the free time you think she has. It sounds like she’s either working or with the kids most of her waking hours, except when you’re able to pop out of the office and “help out.” And I wonder if she’s using a large percentage of that time to do tasks that are invisible to you. Who’s making medical appointments, registering for school, planning 100 different outfits for spirit week, buying and wrapping gifts, organizing holidays, sending out thank-you notes, cleaning out closets, and all of the other tasks that come with having a family? You two could benefit from using the “Fair Play” system to divvy up responsibilities, which of course starts with figuring out who actually does what. This will tell you a lot.

You’ll know that you have all the information you need to negotiate a change (if that turns out to be the case!) when you feel certain you’re not being at all like Don Draper.

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My husband and I live in Florida during the winter months and have made lots of nice friends we socialize with. He invites people from back home to spend a week’s vacation with us, dictating our time, increasing my workload, and costing us money I don’t care to spend on them. This year, he had nearly eight weeks of visitors coming and I am not fully recovered from cancer, so I talked him into canceling all visits this year. I have no excuse for next year. How do I deal with this?

—Sick of Being Taken Advantage Of

Dear Sick of Being Taken Advantage,

I can envision a compromise that lets him play host a little bit but doesn’t overly burden you. Something like a three-week period during which he can invite whoever he wants, a budget for entertaining friends, and an agreement that he will handle the extra work (physical and emotional) that comes with guests: Changing bed sheets, stocking extra food, and planning out meals and itineraries. Basically, the rule should be that if he’s inviting, he’s in charge, and you’re just along for the ride—basically, you get to be a guest in your own home. You can always throw in a mention of ongoing health issues as an excuse to go lie down if you simply don’t feel like being social.

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How do you accept a relationship for what it is, versus what you want it to be? I’ve known my best friend, Patricia, for about seven years. She and I are both in our 30s, share a lot of nerdy hobbies in common, and I was the maid of honor at her wedding last year. Patricia offers me emotional support when I need it, and is honestly one of the most perceptive people I know. The issue is, that it’s getting increasingly difficult to see her in person. If I invite Patricia and her husband out, it only has about a 10 percent chance of happening. She’ll make our weekly Dungeons and Dragons Game run by her husband, but any other kind of invite gets canceled at the last minute. Patricia will say she’s sick or has some college work on the day off. I would think she’s blowing me off, but from social media and mutual friends, Patricia doesn’t seem to be going to other things instead of hanging out with me. I honestly think she’s much more introverted than I am. But it’s hard to maintain a close friendship when your main interaction is pretending to be other people in a DnD game. We used to do more varied hobbies together, but since the pandemic it now seems to be DnD or bust. I miss her and am getting frustrated with our friendship.

—Make a Friendship Check

Dear Make a Friendship Check,

I know what I’m going to suggest is hard. And believe me, I tried to devise a way around it, but you just need to talk to your friend. Begin with a sentence that starts with “I’ve noticed” and discuss the pattern of flakiness you described in your letter. Next comes one that starts with, “I’ve been feeling,” and explains your sadness about how your friendship has changed as well as your understanding that she is more introverted than you are. And then finish off your speech with, “I’m wondering if,” and throw out some ideas for how to move forward. For example, you could suggest a standing first Saturday of the month hangout, a switch to phone calls until she feels less overwhelmed with life, or you could just ask if she has any ideas about how to maintain your closeness.

There’s something to be said for accepting that friendships change and evolve, especially as we get older. Many of us go through phases in which we’re legitimately pretty hard to reach, and it’s not personal. But you shouldn’t have to jump straight toward acceptance of this new normal before having a good old-fashioned conversation. Keep in mind what you said about her: She’s supportive and perceptive. Your friendship can withstand this talk—and something tells me you’ll be closer on the other side of it.

Our cousin, a widower, is smitten with a widow but can’t seem to get past his prejudices to embrace his feelings.  We want them both to be happy. It’s clear to us that she has stars in her eyes for him. He keeps saying that she is only his friend or companion. Yet he brought her 300 miles to meet the family, and has smiled and laughed more than we’ve seen him in years. He’s never behaved this way before.  When he talks about her, it’s clear that he has high regard for her. She’s pretty enough but she is a very big girl.

—Want Love in Their Golden Years

Dear Want Love in Their Golden Years,

Please do not do anything to push your cousin to date this woman only to make her feel horrible about her weight. It’s great that they’re friends and enjoy each other’s company, but she deserves someone who doesn’t have to be convinced to push past prejudices to embrace his feelings for her. Also, you obviously want him to be happy, but guess what? He’s happy with the way things are right now! Celebrate that and please, back off.

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I am a professional woman who has been married for 16 years. My job is stressful, and I often work 12 hours or more. We have no children. At first things were wonderful, and my husband always seemed like a sweet, mild-mannered, caring man. Three years in, he was laid off because his company ran into financial trouble. Because I am a high-earner, I told him he didn’t need to go back to work as long as he kept the house up and did basic repair projects. He never went back to work, but he never kept the house up, either. We also hired housecleaners to visit every two weeks, but in between nothing got done. I asked him to go back to work. He didn’t. I strongly suspected he was having affairs a few years later…

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Dyslexia affects one in every 5 Americans.

But only 2 million are diagnosed and receive the help they need. Why?

Today, On Point: Rethinking how dyslexia is diagnosed.

Tim Odegard, professor of psychology and chairholder of the Murfree Chair of Excellence in Dyslexic Studies at Middle Tennessee State University. Host of the Dyslexia Uncovered podcast.

Clarice Jackson, founder of Black Literacy Matters . Founder of Voice Advocacy Center, a dyslexia screening and tutoring center. Founder of Decoding Dyslexia Nebraska, a nationwide parent support group created to raise awareness about dyslexia.

This is On Point. I'm Meghna Chakrabarti. We're joined today by Tim Odegard. He's professor of psychology and chairholder of the Murphy Chair of Excellence in Dyslexic Studies at Middle Tennessee State University. He's also host of the podcast Dyslexia Uncovered. Professor Odegard, welcome to On Point.

TIM ODEGARD: Thanks. Thanks for having me.

CHAKRABARTI: I would love it if you could take us back into your own childhood as a start. When you were in second or third grade and you were in school, and you had sitting at your desk, with a book or an assignment in front of you, professor Odegard. Can you describe to us exactly you know what you saw as you tried to read?

ODEGARD: That's a great question. I saw a page full of words. Words that I knew that most of them, if I couldn't recognize them by sight from memorization, I probably wouldn't be able to read and pronounce. And I always worried in dread with this nauseous feeling that a teacher or a classmate or somebody would call on me and ask me to read those pages, read in front of them.

CHAKRABARTI: So when you say that it wasn't a word that you could recognize by sight, so if you saw the word school and you had already known, memorized what that whole word was you were okay.

ODEGARD: Correct. That's my compensation, is I've memorized and crammed a bunch of words that I've memorized over my life into my head.

CHAKRABARTI: Okay. I don't mean to pry, but I think for many people who have, who do not have dyslexia or any kind of word processing challenges, it's hard to understand how when you see the word, for example, university, and it's not one that you had already memorized. For a lot of people, they would just look at the uni.

And be like, okay, uni-ver-sity, they would be able to work it out. But what did you see or what prevented you from being able to break it down like that?

ODEGARD: The child me.

CHAKRABARTI: Yeah. The child Tim.

ODEGARD: Wasn't clear on what was going on, why I was struggling to do it. What I would try to do is match it to a image in my head of a word that looked like that.

That I did know. And so I would call out and try to name a word that I might have known. So I might've said universe. If I knew that from a science class, that I had been able to memorize what the word universe was, I probably wouldn't have said university, but it would have been something like that. I might've even seen in a book and learned the word unicycle.

And I might've said unicycle. I didn't see the words backwards. I didn't see the letters backwards. It didn't jumble up for me. It was that it was difficult for me to sound them out as you were trying to do, to pronounce them from the letters and the sounds that went with them.

CHAKRABARTI: And tell me more about the dread that produced in young Tim.

ODEGARD: Two levels of dread. Typically, if you were given that seat work, it meant that you were supposed to be reading. Read on your own, and then you would have to go up and answer questions. There's a sense of dread that I would be found out and be thought of as not knowing what was in the book, because I couldn't access it.

I couldn't read it. So I would stumble through the words in my head. I would do better if I could have tried to have sounded them out laboriously, but of course the shame that I felt, and being in a room full of other people, I didn't want to out myself in front of them. So I wouldn't have been trying to read out loud.

At most, I might've tried to mumble under my breath. So the idea that I would have to go up and answer questions that a teacher had, or the whole class is now going to have to raise their hands and they're going to have to share what they read in the book. And of course, I would not be able to contribute, and I would be thought of as not knowing what my classmates knew.

CHAKRABARTI: I understand though that your memorization compensation, if I could call it that, and the effort that you put into it, actually worked really well for a while. There's an article where the reporter says that your teacher had moved you into the position of first reader.

ODEGARD: Yeah, that's exactly right.

So back when I was in school, it was very common for us to get these readers and we would have to read these books and we might do it in a small group of maybe five, six, seven, eight kids. And we'd be in a row and the person in the first year would read. And these are highly predictable so that the same words are going to repeat over and over again.

So by the time they got to me in the sixth, seventh, eighth position, I had seen all those words. I had used my, what we would call short term memory to memorize those, to be able to see them on the page and then call out what I had heard the other kids reading. So it looked as if I was very good at reading, and I kept getting bumped up, because I was so good and I wouldn't miss any of the words to being good at reading.

The fourth, the third, the second, and then the first. And of course, when I was in the first position, there was nobody else there to actually sound those words out for me, to read them for me, so I could memorize them. Of course, I was found out and then that resulted in me having to go and do some reading for the teachers.

They found out that I really wasn't able to read those words and I was no longer in that group. In fact, I found myself in a much different group with much different types of children than the ones that had been in there before. And reading the best I could.

CHAKRABARTI: Were you ever screened? When it became apparent later on that you were struggling?

ODEGARD: So I was doing all of this in the early '80s, and the concept of screening for literacy, which is so widespread and now part of legislation all over this country, as well as in Providences and Canada, was not possible.

Was not an option, did not exist. So the idea that I would have been screened in some kind of a screening format early in my grade would have not happened at that point. So I was tested, and they found me to not be able to read, to not be able to spell words, but as also reported in that article that you were referencing, I didn't qualify for any special services or protections under federal law, because of the identification model that I heard Sarah Carr in the top of the hour referring to the IQ discrepancy model.

CHAKRABARTI: So that's why we are so thrilled that you're on the show today. And I have a note here that says you prefer to go by Tim and not Professor Odegard, so I'll try to honor that. Because the question of how children are identified as having dyslexia and therefore eligible for supports is a really important one to this day. By the way, the article I'm referencing is from Scientific American. It was written by Sarah Carr. We have a link to that at onpointradio.org. But I do want to, so this evaluation, I don't know what to call it, test that you were given as a young boy.

Tell me a little bit more about that. What is actually tested, or was?

ODEGARD: It would have tested and would have been fairly rudimentary relative to what we have today, but still sufficient and still could have got the job done. It would have been having me read isolated words to see how well I could read different types of words.

So short words that are highly predictable, that you could use the letters and the sounds that go with them to read, probably a few short words that wouldn't quite fit those patterns. And then at that time, probably a few longer, more complex words that probably had more than one syllable in them. It's probably what they had me do.

They may or may not have had me do a spelling test. It was pretty apparent from my classroom performance that I couldn't spell, that was my weakest subject. For those of us in my community, those of us with dyslexia, that is often what we share in community, as being one of our largest struggles. So many of us are dismayed that we still call it a reading disability, for example, since we struggle to both read and spell words.

So we have aspects with multiple parts of written language, and they would have also probably given me, I know they gave me what would have been an IQ test at the time, that would have had a verbal component where I would have had to know what words meant. I would have had to have done other aspects to show that I understand spoken language and the meaning behind it. And I can understand it as well as express myself a little bit, and then they would have also had me do some, probably some what would have looked like visual games to me, maybe patterns with blocks, trying to build those out.

And they would have been determined if my full scale. So all that stuff coming together, was equivalent to likely higher than just 100 and high enough to get me a discrepancy of likely, at the time, about 15 points, one standard deviation between my reading achievement and my IQ. And because of the nature of that test and my background being from a blue-collar working-class background, didn't have college educated parents at home, definitely at that time they were biased against people from my community, my working-class background community.

CHAKRABARTI: In my mind, I'm hearing the sound of car brakes screeching to bring this conversation to a halt. Because you said that IQ was part of the evaluation, and this is the discrepancy model. This is what we're trying to learn about here. And is the discrepancy that, well, if a child's IQ is below a cutoff level or whatnot and they're a struggling reader, that to put it bluntly, this is what you quoted in the Scientific American article, that child is quote, too stupid to be dyslexic.

ODEGARD: Yeah, that would be one way of saying it. Yes. There's a lot of history and baggage that comes along with how this concept, especially in the United States, came to be. And a lot of language that we would deem pretty nonacceptable in today's way of thinking about the world wouldn't even be used, like mental retarded.

The term was educable, those who could be educated, versus those who were uneducable, mentally retarded children. So if my IQ had been higher, I would have been labeled as an educable, somebody who could learn, could be educated to do these things that I was struggling with. Mentally retarded individual, but I didn't have a high enough IQ.

So I guess that meant that I wasn't worth the trouble.

CHAKRABARTI: So the thinking, the historical thinking in this discrepancy model isn't so much that any child is having trouble or struggling as a reader, full stop, right? Which is what ideally it should be. It was, oh, they may be struggling as a reader, but we have to compare that to their measured IQ.

ODEGARD: Correct.

CHAKRABARTI: Tim, before we get back to learning in detail, what this discrepancy model is, you will not be surprised to hear that when we told our listeners that we were going to be talking about this today, we got a real flood of responses. Because this is something that's having an impact in every state in the country.

So here's just a couple of listeners who shared their stories.

This is Xandra Sharpe in Greenbrier, Arkansas, and she said she ultimately had to move her son to a private school to get him the help he needed.

XANDRA SHARPE It was very frustrating because he was getting so much support at home to help him make better grades.

But because he wasn't failing, they would not test him. So I finally threw a fit. They finally tested him in eighth grade and they said, Oh yeah, he does have the markers of dyslexia and a processing disorder. And then COVID hit and we couldn't get further testing. So I ended up putting him in a private school that had a reading tutor and a dyslexia specialist.

And it was a game changer. I don't think that he would have gotten the support and resources he needed in a public school.

CHAKRABARTI: So that's Xandra from Greenbrier, Arkansas. And here's Alison Maree in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, telling us about her daughter.

ALISON: When she was tested, we were told that she wasn't behind enough so that she couldn't get on an IEP.

They needed her to fail more. I got an outside diagnosis and battled the system for almost a year before she got the intervention she needed. She graduates next weekend with an English degree from UMass Amherst. Without this intervention at that early age, I don't believe any of this would have been possible for her.

CHAKRABARTI: Just two of our many listeners, which we'll hear more from throughout this hour. So Tim, those are more modern stories, but they have echoes to what you were talking about. So let's go back to this discrepancy model that involved both reading ability and IQ. When was it created and why?

ODEGARD: I would say it was probably introduced in the late 1960s, early 1970s.

It was created because the illusions that you heard in those self-testimonials from listeners is really trying to find some kind of a processed efforts, some kind of a reason, causal mechanism why. We presume that it is neurobiological. It's born into how our brains are born and they develop. And that's what kind of the definition in our federal law, IDEA, the Individuals with Disabilities and Education Act codified. Was that it was something that was part of our psyche, part of our constitution. There is no genetic test. There is no brain test. There is no way of getting at that. As a result, when they were trying to codify and then implement this idea that was put into legislation, they had to come up with some model to do it.

So they're like if they had the potential, and so they were using this IQ as a marker of potential. Their overall potential is far greater than what we see them doing. And as a result, we could then invest in these children, knowing that they have the potential to learn, because they seem to have these isolated deficits, let's say in reading, maybe a little bit in writing, and they have these processing and advantages that we can see with this IQ test.

So we'll label them as special, as having these special needs and the special label of a specific learning disability. So it was really born out of necessity to try to operationalize something that was not theoretical, but was not something that we could put into practice. And we still can't today, despite all the efforts of all the brain imaging and all the genetic work that's happened around this.

CHAKRABARTI: Tim, I'm having a very hard time keeping my mouth shut, right? Because the idea that potential is the way to determine who's deserving of of intervention or support is shocking. Was there ever a time, whether it was in the development of the discrepancy model, or perhaps even soon thereafter, that people started thinking, hang on, maybe the fact that these children are struggling to read might actually have an impact in a lot of other things, including how they test in the so called IQ tests.

ODEGARD: So yeah, the early 1980s, Linda Siegel. Keith Stanovich, Jack Fletcher, Reid Lyon, and others started to publish research that was highlighting that the utility, the usefulness of the IQ test in differentiating between these people with greater potential versus what was then labeled a garden variety struggling breeder, just didn't meet any kind of criteria that would be used in any modern day classification and identification system.

So it wasn't passing what we would expect and hold in a medical model kind of a framework. It just wasn't passing muster. The other thing that was starting to emerge also was that we presumed in the United States when we were developing intelligence tests for lots of purposes, that this was the trait.

This was dispositional. This is how you were born. This is what you were going to do. And it would predict your ability and how high you could fly. But we've since learned that there are one, our biases, but more importantly, it changes over time. I know that you probably want to jump in here, but there's one really remarkable study that was published recently in a Northern European country, where they tracked individuals like myself who were identified and they had their IQ test when they were children.

Those who got the reading intervention, maintained that IQ 15 years later, but the kids who didn't get reading intervention had almost a full 15-point drop in their IQ on average. So if they had used a discrepancy model initially, as adults, they wouldn't have even met it, because IQ is not permanent. It is something malleable that changes.

CHAKRABARTI: But we're talking about this discrepancy model that's been around in some form for almost 50 years now. It has, as far as I understand, Tim, it's fallen out of favor a little bit, but are versions of it still in use in schools or elsewhere when people seek to get their children screened or tested?

ODEGARD: Yeah, most definitely. And I think that both of the cases that you heard with the callers who called in likely were forced because of the quality of education and the expectations. And how they were being handled in the schools wasn't meeting their needs. So they went to an outside tester who likely used a pattern of strengths and weaknesses.

So giving a, not a pure IQ test, but measuring very similar types of tests and then laying those out and looking to find patterns. And what they're looking for and what those callers were alluding to was finding these patterns where you could find these causal mechanisms or presumed causal mechanisms that were likely causing the reading problems.

ODEGARD: And as a result, they were able to come back to the schools, and then leverage those to get services. And the challenge we have is that as the IQ discrepancy has fallen out of favor, as the patterns of strength and weaknesses fall out of favor, the most important thing in our schools right now is quality education for all children. So that we actually can do our best and informing educators and refining how we screen to make sure that we're always able to dig down at the word level and we know to do it.

CHAKRABARTI: Okay, but to be clear about something, and it wasn't actually fully clear to me from the Scientific American article, is that even though we say this discrepancy model has fallen out of favor, the article says that thousands of schools in the U.S. continue to use an iteration of this model to test children.

Can you explain that?

ODEGARD: There's two aspects to that. So the federal legislation, IDEA, still has permissible three modes of identification. An IQ discrepancy is still allowable by federal law and can be adopted by any state or school in the nation if they chose to do, so it's still allowable. Second, the patterns of strength and weaknesses, giving a cognitive battery of tests and looking to see what the relative strengths and weaknesses are, to find a potential profile that would mark a child as having an SLD is now what a lot of schools are using in place of an IQ discrepancy, but it's still leveraging the exact same test and subtest, to large part as what an IQ does.

And now they're trying to get very complex and find these specific patterns that they think are linked to some type of a specific learning disability. The third is a instructional discrepancy. You're in a good school. They're using best practices. Most of the children are responding really well and are at grade level.

And when you're screening, they're reading lots of words, accurate. They're pretty fluent in what they do with them. They're spelling words well. There's just a handful that are left now that are struggling, and as a result of their persistent struggles, even when a little bit of intervention is used, you can identify them as needing much greater, more intensive, sustained intervention.

CHAKRABARTI: Okay. In that case, how much has changed? The discrepancy model and its various iterations that you just laid out that are still in use. How much has that shaped, at the federal level? Or take it down as far as you want, state, local. Who's getting help?

ODEGARD: I think the sad thing is that I don't think the numbers have changed about who's getting help and who's not.

We've got some state laws in place now that actually require states to report how many kids and what percentage of kids are being identified with dyslexia. I've published several studies on this, and we're not seeing large swatches of children in Texas, Arkansas, such as that one caller from Greenbrier was reporting, or in Tennessee, for example, where I live currently, we're not seeing large swatches of children being mislabeled with dyslexia or even being labeled with dyslexia. At least when I published my first study on this, the most common number of children in a Texas high school that were identified with dyslexia was zero.

CHAKRABARTI: Zero, even though on average, 20% of the U.S. population has dyslexia.

ODEGARD: Zero. And it wasn't much different than that in Tennessee when I looked anecdotally at their publicly reported data. So you can see that we have this issue. In Arkansas, there's a steep drop off as well when you get to middle and then high school.

And that's what we observed across Arkansas middle schools, Arkansas and Tennessee, was that in middle school you see a steep drop off. It's perceived, and the stereotype is that it's a condition that we find early. That with good intervention and the foundational skills we remediate and that they're all fixed and better.

But I think as the one caller from Cape Cod was probably alluding to, if you're compensating, if you're working really hard as I did, as that caller's daughter probably is through your efforts, the harder we work, the less likely we are to get any federal protections, anything to support us in our unique needs.

And it creates what we commonly call a double bind. So you want to advocate against, let's say, an IQ discrepancy. I want to advocate against the cognitive model of doing this. But when we have schools that aren't well calibrated and aren't honoring the fact that if we struggle to read and spell words, it's on them to educate us.

And it's on them to find us and provide us with the supports and document the accommodations that we deserve.

CHAKRABARTI: Okay. Again, let's go back to listen to some of the folks who shared their stories with us. This is Patty in Syracuse, New York. And she knew that her third-grade son struggles with reading.

She's known that since kindergarten, but getting the school's help was very challenging.

PATTY: They keep telling me that they don't test for dyslexia at the school level, yet when I talked to someone at the local university who could test him, she thought it was weird that the school psychologist couldn't test him because she, herself, is a school psychologist and can test him.

When I went to the school with that, they said, oh, yeah, now we can test him. We can test him. We'll just have to do it over the summer because we're short staffed. It feels with dyslexia, it's hard. You have to know the secret word, or the password, to be able to get what your child needs.

CHAKRABARTI: So that's Patty in Syracuse, New York, and here's Gina Nelson in Pelican Rapids, Minnesota.

GINA NELSON: It cost us several thousand dollars out of pocket to not only have our daughter diagnosed, but also to provide her the tutoring that she needed in her grade school years. Unfortunately, the schools do not have what they need to teach children with dyslexia, and it is very difficult on the children, and they end up growing up with a lot of anxiety because they are not understood, and they struggle in school.

CHAKRABARTI: I'd like to bring Clarice Jackson into the conversation now. She joins us from Omaha, Nebraska. She's founder of Black Literacy Matters, also founder of Voice Advocacy Center. It's a dyslexia screening and tutoring center. Clarice Jackson, welcome to On Point.

CLARICE JACKSON: Thank you. I'm happy to be here. Hello, everyone.

CHAKRABARTI: You heard Tim say earlier that the testing that he underwent as a young child in the early '80s was really tilted against helping someone from his background, working class, blue collar, not a lot of college education history in his family. So those class differences really have had an impact, as has race in terms of identifying students in need.

So can you talk a little bit about that? Like how has differential interventions or, excuse me, the discrepancy model, how has it had an impact on young Black children who were of whom who are struggling readers.

JACKSON: I would just first say that I think Tim and a lot of Black children or children of color have that same experience.

I know personally that my daughter who has dyslexia, she went through that very exact thing with the discrepancy model. That's what they were using here in Nebraska. And at that particular time, she had a psychologist of color. And because the psychologists of color understood the discrepancy model and the bias and the non-cultural diversity that can be used within that to work against children of color, she was very protective of the students that she attested.

And I kept wondering how my daughter was able to pass the test that said that she did not need assistance, but yet she couldn't read simple two and three letter words. And that's when I found out what the real issue was with the psychologist, but that IQ model is very problematic, for not only social classes, but also racial diversity as well.

CHAKRABARTI: Because IQ models of all sorts have been found to basically, in some cases, be overtly racist, in other cases be founded in the kinds of testing which would just intrinsically disadvantage some groups, including children of color, right?

JACKSON: Absolutely. Absolutely. I think that it lacks a lot of the language variations and the diversities that are included in them. And so it doesn't account for any of that. And that puts the child of color at a disadvantage, even though they may really truly be struggling from dyslexia. But that compounded bias that you find interwoven in the discrepancy model is not helpful in access and identification.

CHAKRABARTI: Can you so help me understand something a little bit more, Clarice. You had said that the psychologist who was working with your daughter was very protective of the children she was working with. That sounds like that's coming from a very good place though, right? I'm a little confused. Was her need, desire to protect those children not leading to the results that it should have?

JACKSON: I'm glad you caught that, but sorry.

CHAKRABARTI: It's okay.

JACKSON: I would say because at that particular time, my story is a little unique. So I happen to work at that particular school. So I knew the psychologist prior to her screening and testing my daughter. However, in her quest to think she was doing right by the kids of color, because she wanted, didn't want kids over identified. Because there's a disproportionate amount of African American students who are misidentified or over identified in special education.

So that was her lens. That was her baseline. And she had developed like personal relationships with these kids. And so she didn't want her to be labeled, but in the process of that, she was harming her.

CHAKRABARTI: So I want to learn from both of you about what are the better models out there that need to be used? And are they being used enough, Tim? How would you begin to answer that?

ODEGARD: I would actually say that the better models, if you were to say, is the instructional discrepancy, this response to instruction, is being used far more.

What we don't have is why Clarice struggled with her daughter, why a lot of your callers struggled, which is, that's supposed to be based on best practices and then having good intervention. And we don't really have those in the schools, which is why people from our communities have to go outside of the school in the first place.

And so we don't have the systems and the instructional knowledge and know how in place to run a better model. But when parents spend thousands of dollars to go outside of the school, then to come back, they find that they've got the diagnosis now, they've got the school agreeing, but their kids still aren't getting what they need.

So what this really says is that we need a ground up rebuild on how we're perceiving and working within our schools. At least that's my perspective.

CHAKRABARTI: So Clarice, actually I want to hear more about your daughter and then also the work that you're doing in Black Literacy Matters. Because this definitely seems like an issue that isn't going to be solved in one fell swoop at the federal level.

It's going to take a lot of the kind of work that you and Tim are doing. So tell us a little bit more about, about your daughter and how she's doing now.

JACKSON: Sure. Oh I'll start with how she started. And then she of course could not read in the fourth grade. She was still reading below a pre kindergarten level.

And she'd been in the traditional public school setting from pre-k to fourth grade. And again, we had that issue with the psychologist who didn't want her to be labeled or disproportionately placed in special education and therefore relegated to it and stuck. So we had to push past all of that, and they still could not objectively, scientifically, they didn't have a highly qualified teacher who even understood the science of reading to assist my daughter.

Like most of the callers, I had to look outside of the traditional school system, placed her in a private school where they used a Orton-Gillingham method, and in one year she went from a nonreader to a third-grade reader. And that was such a profound place for me after struggling and fighting and crying and homework at home that took hours, and she still didn't complete it.

And her belief in herself, I watched her belief in herself diminish. And I see that with tons of children who come through the doors of my center, or through parents or other advocates have expressed. That social and emotional impact, the educational trauma that children experience. Changes the trajectory of their lives if we do not catch it.

And that is so important to talk about, because you don't ever have to say a word to your child. If they know, which they do, that they're struggling or reading is not something they're good at, their belief in themselves diminishes, they withdraw within themselves. So you have very presumably introverted children who are truly extroverted, but are suppressing due to the fact that they have not been equipped with structured literacy practices.

CHAKRABARTI: This is so important, right? Because it does have an impact on absolutely every aspect of a child's life. I can completely understand what you say when they turn in on themselves, right? The idea of loving learning just diminishes. It affects them socially. With all of these truths, all of these truths being known, from your perspective, Clarice, what do you think is, what are the hurdles preventing schools from adopting different models or doing a better job at identifying the kids who need help?

JACKSON: After being in this work for a long time, and I think Tim could probably attest to this as well. A lot of it is schools pick curriculums.

Five to seven years out. And so once they pick these curriculums, by the way, a lot of these things are picked, like I know here where I am locally, they create curriculum groups, and we don't know what level of training or experience these groups that are picked have when it comes to choosing the particular types of books that will be placed in the classroom.

All that's decided above the level of the grassroots where the teacher and the child are and what's needed in the classroom. And so those things are decided. Then it becomes a political argument about, okay, if we do switch, how do we pay for it? How do we train a mass of teachers who've already been in the classroom from grade one, all the way up to 30 and 40 years, who don't have this type of training, and then it becomes that excuse.

And so while these things are arguing with each other, the lack of providing appropriate curriculum, not allowing curriculum like Lucy Calkins and Balanced Literacy, Pinnell and all of those different things. Into our school systems and let's have some knowledge about what we're choosing and does it have the evidence to back it to fully create literate children.

That's one of the huge issues and then for people of color it's then overcoming the barriers that are already there. I don't want my kid labeled as needing special services. I understand that there is bias in that. I also understand that our kids are not picked out to be gifted or talented or any of those things.

And I don't have the access. I don't have the reach, the bandwidth to work two, three jobs, then come up to the school and work in a PTA and be all things that the school says I need to be. And how about I come from the same system that failed my child, which has now put me in poverty. At the low-income level, to where I have to work all these jobs.

So now you want me to come home after working two to three jobs and read to my child and I can't even read. Those are some of the barriers that people of color face.

CHAKRABARTI: Yeah. You are singing my song, Clarice. (LAUGHS) If I could just put it that way, and I will restrain myself from diverting this conversation into the balanced literacy wars, because you mentioned Kalkins and F&P.

JACKSON: I'm sorry.

CHAKRABARTI: No, but that's part of the picture, right? Because these are decisions that districts have to make, right? It's the combination of identifying children who need help, but also talking about what schools are doing inside the classroom that may be making it harder for kids.

So I totally take your point on that. But Tim, so let me turn back to you here, because I just need a little bit more clarification. Because curriculum is a big part of this, but getting back to the evaluations, I just want to be sure I heard you correctly, that you said that a lot of schools are still using, if not of the old model, they're using evaluations that still look for patterns of strengths and weaknesses.

I think you've previously called it discrepancy 2.0.

ODEGARD: I did. Because I was being cheeky when I said that. So it's a way of thinking about it as being analogous in many ways, since very similar processing measures are used in this newer approach of patterns of strengths and weaknesses. So you're borrowing a lot and you're borrowing heavily from an IQ type assessment battery.

CHAKRABARTI: Okay. So here's, let's get down to issues of dollars and cents, right? Because there just aren't unlimited funds for education anywhere, unfortunately, if you ask me. So ultimately there has to be some way to identify who is in need of help. Clarice, you had mentioned another evaluation system?

I didn't catch the name. It started with an O.

JACKSON: Oh, Orton-Gillingham? Yeah. Is that what you're talking about?

CHAKRABARTI: Is that another test?

JACKSON: That's not another test. That's just an approach or method that is used to teach children who are dyslexic how to read.

CHAKRABARTI: I see. Okay. Okay. So then thanks for that clarification because honestly in education, there's a lot of language that I have trouble keeping track of.

JACKSON: I'm so sorry.

CHAKRABARTI: No, it's quite all right. So Tim, what are the other ways that schools can somehow, I hate to say this, but identify who needs help and how schools can target the kind of support that those kids need. They need some kind of threshold, don't they?

ODEGARD: To build on one thing that you said, the dollars and cents, as well as the time, our treasure and then what Clarice said about the need for instruction and for the resources of dollars to do the work of actually teaching kids how to read in the first place, you could use an instructional model. Where we actually leverage and put money into the resources of teaching and equipping educators and giving students those resources to actually equip themselves with literacy.

That's what I would focus on. Research has looked at how much it cost. A midsize school district is anywhere from $500,000 to $750,000 are invested annually to do this type of testing that you keep referring to, across the nation. Now, a group then came back on that study that was published by a colleague of mine, Jeremy Miciak from University of Houston and said no. Actually it's closer to just a quarter of a million dollars. If you've got a handful of schools and you have a lot of the infrastructure you already need, which means you're already paying people.

You already have these very expensive tests, but they don't talk about the fact that these tests could take anywhere from eight to 10 hours of children's time away from an instruction. It's a lot of instruction and intervention a teacher could give to it, and you're taking resources of a paid position.

That could be a reading interventionist, it could be a person who is a coach and highly trained to support these people. By having and maintaining these models, we rob resources away from what we need for all of our students. Students who are low class like myself. From a poor background, students of colors, multilingual learners who are coming in.

Needing to be instructed and be identified with what they need and to build off their strengths. So we're robbing resources right now by maintaining this model, and we're putting the money into other people's hands.

CHAKRABARTI: Wait. So be clearer about that. So you're saying that there are already people in schools who, their work is in for different things, literacy coaches, things like that.

ODEGARD: They're there. But they're under resourced, they're under resourced. They don't have the resources to do it. When they need to adopt the new curriculum, when they need to pay for the sustained training, when they need to develop the in-house personnel to sustain full implementation of highly effective practices for all learners, and then have differentiated intervention to meet the needs of my child, of Clarice's child ... of other people's children. They don't have those resources. They don't have the capacity to do it, but they have the capacity to hire the people that they do for the testing. Because that's a compliance with the federal law. So they're doing a compliance mindset, which they have to do with the way the laws are structured.

And how they're held accountable.

CHAKRABARTI: I see. I see. Okay, so Clarice, this brings us back to the fact that, and I think it's reflected also in the callers who shared their stories with us and I'm grateful for all of them, but they're also coming from, a lot of the stories were for people who were able to go outside of the school system.

And find a way to get their child diagnosis and help, which means that they had the means to do it. Is that part of the problem that I've been reading, that that a lot of the more influential voices in the advocacy community come from that sort of white upper middle class group?

And that perhaps that's not the kind of advocacy that's reaching in districts that have a lot of children in need, but who can't advocate for themselves or families.

JACKSON: Absolutely. Absolutely. One thing is, and I know that there's some well-meaning people out here who quote this quite a bit, but if you come from a more prominent family, some might say, and I've heard it many times at many different conferences, that dyslexia is a gift.

And how do you tell someone who is in poverty, who is struggling, and we know, and we've heard that education is the gateway out of poverty, and you attend a school where access to appropriate reading intervention, structured literacy practices, are not there. And then your parents don't have the economic means to take you out of that school, put you in a private school or put you in a position where you have a tutor that tutors you 2 to 3 times a day.

And one of my good friends, Kareem Weaver says this, and I might be misquoting him a little bit, but basically, it's this. Is that you don't have a intervention problem. If more than half of your schools or your classrooms are struggling with literacy, you have an instructional problem. And so that is what has become the thing here in the United States, is that we are acting in the rears.

We are being reactive instead of proactive. And in the reaction, those that can't afford to find a different choice are stuck and relegated to these abysmal reading practices that we have, and thus we have the literacy gap between African American and their other racial counterparts.

CHAKRABARTI: We only have a minute left, and I really am mindful of all the families that are listening to this right now. Tim, what would you recommend that family members do if they have concerns about their children's reading.

ODEGARD: Advocate for themselves, try to reach out and get clear, concise information about what questions you need to ask, what information the school's collecting, look at those, have your child read to you.

Go in there and have your child read for their teachers. Hold the schools accountable for why a child like Clarice's daughter isn't able to read at even a kindergarten level. And you can clearly hear that if you take the time just to sit down and listen to her read. Use the misery that we feel as an opportunity for change.

This program aired on May 7, 2024.

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FAQ about Vertical Sliders

What is a vertical slider.

Oh, that’s simple! A vertical slider is essentially a tool that you often see on websites and software interfaces. It allows you to scroll up and down or adjust a variable, like volume or brightness, by moving a control along a vertical track.

Think about a scroll bar on a webpage, or a volume control on your music app – those are great examples.

How do you Implement a Vertical Slider?

Well, implementation can vary depending on what you’re working with. If it’s a website, you could use HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. In many popular programming languages, like Python or Java, there are libraries that have predefined vertical slider elements that you can use in your app.

It usually involves some initial setup and then configuring the look and feel to match your design.

Can Vertical Sliders Be Customized?

Absolutely, yes! You can change a whole lot of things about a vertical slider. The color, size, range, step increment, even the look of the control handle itself.

Customization options would depend on the language or framework you’re using. Just make sure your changes don’t sacrifice usability. Remember, form should follow function.

Are Vertical Sliders Responsive?

They sure can be. A well-designed vertical slider will be responsive, meaning it’ll work just as well on different screen sizes and devices. This is often achieved through techniques like CSS media queries in web development.

This ensures that your vertical slider maintains usability and looks good whether viewed on a desktop, tablet, or smartphone.

Why Use a Vertical Slider Instead of Horizontal?

It’s mostly a matter of preference and usability. A vertical slider can be more intuitive for tasks that naturally follow a vertical direction, like scrolling through a page or adjusting volume.

It can also be a design decision, maybe to better fit the layout of your site or app. There’s no universal right or wrong here, it really depends on your specific needs.

Do Vertical Sliders Affect Website Performance?

Well, generally, not significantly. But as with anything else, if they’re poorly implemented, they could slow things down. A poorly coded slider can cause slow page loads or be a drain on system resources.

But if you’re using a well-optimized slider and you’re not going overboard with hundreds of them, the performance impact should be minimal.

What are Accessibility Considerations for Vertical Sliders?

That’s an important question! It’s essential to ensure that your vertical slider is usable by all, including people with disabilities. This can include using high contrast colors, making sure the slider is operable using keyboard controls, and using ARIA attributes for those using screen readers. Accessibility is all about being inclusive, right?

Can Vertical Sliders be Animated?

Oh, yes! You can certainly add animations to vertical sliders. They could animate on page load, or when the user interacts with them. Adding animations can improve the user experience by providing feedback or drawing attention.

But remember – it’s easy to overdo it. Make sure your animations aren’t too distracting or slowing down your page.

Can You Use Vertical Sliders on Mobile?

Definitely! Vertical sliders can work really well on mobile devices. With the right responsive design, they can be just as effective, intuitive, and visually appealing on a small touchscreen as they are on a larger desktop monitor.

However, you have to ensure they are large enough to be used comfortably on a touch screen. Thumb-friendly design, you know?

How Do You Test a Vertical Slider?

Testing a vertical slider can involve a mix of methods. Functionality testing is critical – you have to ensure that the slider adjusts as intended when interacted with. You’ll also want to test it across different browsers and devices to ensure consistent performance.

Usability testing can help ensure it’s intuitive and user-friendly. And accessibility testing is important too – everyone should be able to use your slider, after all.

Ending Thoughts

Now picture this, you’re strolling through a virtual art gallery, the panels whizzing past as you swipe vertically. Think about the impact! It’s not just content, it’s a journey , it’s storytelling . And these examples? They’re your tools, your paint and brush.

Vertical sliders , buddy, they’re the future. They transform clunky interfaces into sleek, responsive experiences. They jive with our natural swiping tendencies and respect the ever-valuable screen real estate.

Let’s not forget, these examples we discussed are not rigid laws. No siree, they’re inspirations. Take them, mold them, make them your own. Like chefs, we sample different ingredients, but the final dish? That’s on us.

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Here Are 2024’s Most Contested Senate Races—From Ohio To Arizona

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Democrats face a tough challenge in maintaining control of the Senate in the 2024 election, when they’ll have 23 seats on the ballot, including three in states that voted for former President Donald Trump in 2020, while Republicans are defending just 11 seats, all in states Trump won.

Arizona Republican U.S. Senate candidate and far-right election denier Kari Lake listens as U.S. ... [+] Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) speaks at a news conference on February 29, 2024 in Phoenix, Arizona. (Photo by Rebecca Noble/Getty Images)

Arizona : Former gubernatorial candidate and Trump ally Kari Lake is challenging progressive Rep. Ruben Gallego for the seat held by independent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, who defected from the Democratic Party in December 2022 and is not running for reelection—in what is likely to be a close race, some early polls show Gallego has a slight lead over Lake in the once-solidly red state.

Ohio : Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown will face Republican businessman Bernie Moreno in the November election in one of three Democratic-held Senate seats on the ballot in states Trump won in 2020, with early surveys showing Brown has a five-point edge over the Trump-endorsed Moreno, according to RealClearPolitics’ polling average .

Montana : Democratic Sen. Jon Tester is vying for a fourth term in the Republican stronghold that voted to elect Trump in 2020 by 16 percentage points—and he faces a tough challenge from likely GOP nominee Tim Sheehy, a political newcomer, former Navy SEAL and aerospace entrepreneur backed by Trump and the Republican National Senatorial Committee.

West Virginia : Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin’s retirement announcement in November effectively handed control of the solidly red-state seat to Republicans, with Trump-backed Gov. Jim Justice the strong favorite to win in November.

Michigan : The state has not elected a Republican to the Senate since 1994, but experts think Democrats only have a slight edge in this year’s race for the open seat held by retiring Democratic Sen. Debbie Stabenow, with Democratic Rep. Elissa Slotkin leading her primary competitors by double digits while polls show Trump-endorsed Republican Rep. Mike Rogers has a significant edge in a crowded primary race against former Reps. Peter Meijer and Justin Amash.

Pennsylvania : Democratic Sen. Bob Casey has described the general election race as “close” and “tough,” with polls show him leading his Republican challenger, former Bridgewater Associates CEO David McCormick, by a 5.3-point average, according to RealClearPolitics , in the state that delivered Democrats a key 2022 Senate win.

Wisconsin: Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin is likely to face Republican businessman Eric Hovde, who lost the 2012 Senate GOP primary, in a close race that Cook Political Report rates as leaning Democratic—Hovde has the backing of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, whose chair recently described Wisconsin as ripe territory for Republicans to CBS , as it’s the only state Trump lost in 2020 where a GOP Senate candidate won in 2022.

Nevada: Democratic Sen. Jacky Rosen is likely to face Republican Afghanistan war veteran Sam Brown in a toss-up race that’s expected to be one of the most expensive Senate races in the state’s history, with Brown reporting a major fundraising edge over the crowded field of GOP primary contenders and Rosen sitting on a record-breaking war chest, the Reno Gazette-Journal reported .

How Many Senate Seats Are Up For Election?

34. Most of those races won’t be competitive, though, with incumbent candidates expected to cruise to reelection. Four of the races—in Ohio, Montana, Nevada and Arizona—are rated toss-ups by Cook Political Report , and another three in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin lean Democratic.

Key Background

Democrats held on to control of the Senate by a narrow two-seat margin in the 2022 midterm, when Trump-preferred Republican picks lost a string of closely watched races in Nevada, Arizona, Georgia and Pennsylvania—leading to significant backlash against the former president. Legislative business in the Senate has largely been at a standstill during this session of Congress as the Republican-controlled House has consistently blocked any legislation that would have a chance of passing the Senate, and vice versa. Trump has regained his hold over the party since the 2022 midterm and has secured the party’s nomination, with endorsements from almost two-thirds of the Senate conference.

Eight senators—five Democrats, one independent and two Republicans—have announced they will not seek reelection this year.

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