December 13, 2023  SEONews
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A Full-Width Slider Case Study — Smashing Magazine


Have you run into a situation where you need the padding of one element to align with the padding of another element? It’s a common debacle, especially when a page layout is set with global padding, and you need to break out of that layout and go full-width but still align the inner content with the rest of the page. In this article, Brecht De Ruyte demonstrates the issue with a full-width slider component that breaks out of the main page container and shares a couple of techniques to keep it visually aligned with other elements on the page.

You know what’s perhaps the “cheapest” way to make a slider of images, right? You set up a container, drop a bunch of inline image elements in it, then set overflow-x: auto on it, allowing us to swipe through them. The same idea applies nicely to a group of cards, too.

While that’s a quick and dirty way to get a slider up and running, there is more we can do to smooth it out a bit. That’s what we’re going to cover in this tutorial. Specifically, we’re improving our cheap slider with controlled scrolling, courtesy of CSS Scroll Snapping. The idea is that the slider naturally stops on an image during the scroll. Otherwise, we could blow through a bunch of images in a single swipe and lose our place.

But we’ll go deeper than scroll snapping. The thing with sliders is that it can be difficult to instruct them on where to “snap.” For example, what if we want to configure the slider in such a way that images always snap at the left (or...



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