This 1.4KB fading slideshow script can easily be customized with CSS. It is a slight variation from the TinySlider script and is still completely standalone and uses a simple unordered list structure to support any content. It even gracefully degrades without JavaScript support. The script supports automatic rotation with the option to auto-resume, an active class on a navigation list if applicable, and an initial display toggle.

Self-employment has kept away from my blog for quite awhile but I hope to be spending more time here soon. I will be addressing all of the accumulated requests and bug reports for all of my scripts as soon as I possibly can. I also have a couple updated script versions and completely new scripts in the works as well as some post ideas. If you have emailed me anytime in the last 6 months or so I sincerely apologize if I did not get back with you, I just had too much going on to deal with all to all correspondence.

To initialize the script use the following:

var slideshow=new TINY.slider.slide('slideshow',{
	id:'slides', // ID of the parent slideshow unordered list
	auto:3, // Seconds to auto-advance, defaults to disabled
	resume:true, // Resume after interrupted, defaults to false
	navid:'pagination', // Optional ID of direct navigation UL
	activeclass:'current', // If navid, class to set on the current LI
	visible:true, // Initially display the first slide vs fading it in
	position:0 // Initial slide position, defaulting to the 0 index
});

The first parameter taken by TINY.fader.fade is the variable name used for the object instance. This script has been tested in all major browsers and is available free of charge for both personal or commercial projects under the creative commons license. Community support is available here.

Click here for the demo.

Click here to download the source code.

9/30/2010 – Resolved IE bug.

This super lightweight (1.5KB) and standalone sliding slideshow script can easily be customized to integrate with any website through CSS. You can add any content to it, not just images, and it gracefully degrades without JavaScript support. The script supports automatic rotation with the option to auto-resume, an active class on a navigation list if applicable, and a direction toggle (vertical or horizontal).

To initialize the script use the following:

var slideshow=new TINY.slider.slide('slideshow',{
	id:'slider', // ID of the parent slideshow div
	auto:3, // Seconds to auto-advance, defaults to disabled
	resume:true, // Resume auto after interrupted, defaults to false
	vertical:false, // Direction, defaults to false
	navid:'pagination', // Optional ID of direct navigation UL
	activeclass:'current', // Class to set on the current LI
	position:0 // Initial slide position, defaulting to index 0
});

The first parameter taken by TINY.slider.slide is the variable name used for the object instance. You can also optionally set width and height parameters for the applicable direction you are sliding. If it is not set the width or height will be automatically calculated using the offsetWidth/offsetHeight of the first list element. This script has been tested in all major browsers and is available free of charge for both personal or commercial projects under the creative commons license. Community support is available here. Paid support is also available, contact me for details.

Click here for the demo.

Click here to download the source code.

12/8/2009 – Fixed bug that threw slider into loop outside of constraints.

A new version of this script is available here.

This lightweight (1.16 KB) animated JavaScript accordion is an update to the original accordion script posted on April 18th. It is now smaller, faster, supports multiple instances and includes an active header class toggle. The markup is also improved through the use of definition lists and the CSS has been simplified as well.

To initialize an accordion use the following code:

var mySlider=new accordion.slider('mySlider');
mySlider.init('slider',0,'open');

You must create a new accordion object before initialization. The parameter taken by accordion.slider is the variable name used for the object. The object.init function takes 3 parameters: the id of the “dl”, the index of the initially expanded section (optional) and the class for the active header (optional).

This script has been tested in all major browsers and is available free of charge for both personal or commercial projects under the creative commons license. Community support is available here. Paid support is also available, contact me for details.

Click here for the demo.

Click here to download the source code.

Update 11/24/2008 – Updated logic to allow hover state when no sections are initially expanded. Consolidated some code to drop the weight by 15%.

To setup a scroll/slide area create a container with the following CSS properties…

position:relative; overflow:hidden; height:XXXpx;

Inside the scroll area container create another div that will house your actual content. It needs the positioned absolutely within the previous div. Each sliding or scrolling area on the page needs to have a unique ID for this div.

position:absolute;

Inside the content div you can need to create a section for each area of content, be it 1 or 50. For each section after the “prefix-” numerate the order from 1 onwards. The prefix (ie section, newssection, imgsection, etc) needs to be unique to the current sliding/scrolling container’s sections.

<div id="section-1" class="section"></div>

You can call functions to incrementally scroll up or down, scroll to a particular section and initiate autoscroll/cancel the autoscroll. Take a look at the source code for examples. You might also consider dynamically adding some currently static CSS properties such as overflow:hidden and the height to allow for better degradation without JavaScript support.

This script has been tested in all major browsers and is available free of charge for both personal or commercial projects under the creative commons license. Community support is available here. Paid support is also available, contact me for details.

Click here for the demo.

Click here to download the source.

This JavaScript accordion is only 1.5kb. If you have a small project that could use an accordion and don’t want to include an entire JavaScript framework to do the job then give this script a try.

You will need to call the following function in your body onload where the first parameter is the div id of the accordion parent and the second tells the script which section to expand onload.

slider.init('slider',1)

This script has been tested in all major browsers and is available free of charge for both personal or commercial projects under the creative commons license. Community support is available here. Paid support is also available, contact me for details.

Click here to download the source code.

Updated 5/27/2008 – Slightly minified the code cutting off 1kb and added the script into a global namespace.
Updated 6/19/2008 – Shaved of a few bytes and added change the “c” variable to identify which section to be expanded onload.