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jQuery for Designers Beginner's Guide Second Edition

By : Natalie Maclees
Book Image

jQuery for Designers Beginner's Guide Second Edition

By: Natalie Maclees

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (21 chapters)
jQuery for Designers Beginner's Guide Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Time for action – building a slideshow with Cycle2


Follow these steps to build your first Cycle2 slideshow:

  1. We'll get started by creating a basic HTML document and associated files and folders just like we did in Chapter 1, Designer, Meet jQuery. In the body of the HTML document, we'll create a container <div> and then wrap the markup for each slide in a <div>:

    <div class="cycle-slideshow">
      <div class="slide">
        <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agua_Azul">
          <img src="images/AguaAzul.jpg">
        </a>
      </div>
      <div class="slide">
        <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burney_Falls">
          <img src="images/BurneyFalls.jpg">
        </a>
      </div>
      ...
    </div>

    Notice that we've used a class cycle-slideshow on the container <div> and then a class slide on the <div> elements that contain the markup for each of our individual slides. These are important for the Cycle2 plugin. Remember that this...