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HTML5 Data and Services Cookbook

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HTML5 Data and Services Cookbook

Overview of this book

HTML5 is everywhere. From PCs to tablets to smartphones and even TVs, the web is the most ubiquitous application platform and information medium bar. Its becoming a first class citizen in established operating systems such as Microsoft Windows 8 as well as the primary platform of new operating systems such as Google Chrome OS. "HTML5 Data and Services Cookbook" contains over 100 recipes explaining how to utilize modern features and techniques when building websites or web applications. This book will help you to explore the full power of HTML5 - from number rounding to advanced graphics to real-time data binding. "HTML5 Data and Services Cookbook" starts with the display of text and related data. Then you will be guided through graphs and animated visualizations followed by input and input controls. Data serialization, validation and communication with the server as well as modern frameworks with advanced features like automatic data binding and server communication will also be covered in detail.This book covers a fast track into new libraries and features that are part of HTML5!
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
HTML5 Data and Services Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Making an image carousel


Image carousels are among the most popular marketing and showcase tools used on websites. They can also be used to show image galleries or presentations.

In this recipe we're going to build an image carousel. It will support automatic timed transitions that stop if the user moves over the carousel area. It will have a navigation area consisting of control rectangles denoting the currently active images and the number of remaining images.

This will be a 3D carousel utilizing HTLM5 features, such as CSS3 3D transforms.

Getting ready

We will need three images in the directory along with our code. They should be named 1.jpg, 2.jpg, and 3.jpg respectively.

How to do it...

We will be creating the image carousel by using jQuery, HTML5, and CSS transformations.

  1. First, we will create an HTML page with a carousel and the gray image controls. We're going to position the controls in the middle-bottom section of the carousel.

    <!DOCTYPE html>
    <html>
      <head>
        &lt...