MovingBoxes

Sort demo

by Mottie

HTML

<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://chriscoyier.github.com/MovingBoxes/css/movingboxes.css">
<script src="http://chriscoyier.github.com/MovingBoxes/js/jquery.movingboxes.js"></script>
<!--[if lt IE 9]>
<link  type="text/css"  href="http://chriscoyier.github.com/MovingBoxes/css/movingboxes-ie.css"  rel="stylesheet" media="screen" />
<![endif]-->

<ul id="slider">
    
    <li>
        <img src="http://chriscoyier.github.com/MovingBoxes/demo/1.jpg" alt="picture" />
        <h2>Olivia News Heading</h2>
        <p>A very short exerpt goes here... <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/justbcuz/112479862/">more</a></p>
    </li>
    
    <li>
        <img src="http://chriscoyier.github.com/MovingBoxes/demo/2.jpg" alt="picture" />
        <h2>Alice News Heading</h2>
        <p>A very short exerpt goes here... <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/joshuacraig/2698975899/">more</a> and a whole lot more text goes here, so we can see the height adjust.</p>
    </li>
    
    <li>
        <img src="http://chriscoyier.github.com/MovingBoxes/demo/3.jpg" alt="picture" />
        <h2>Yin News Heading</h2>
        <p>A very short exerpt goes here... <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/ruudvanleeuwen/468309897/">more</a></p>
    </li>
    
    <li>
        <img src="http://chriscoyier.github.com/MovingBoxes/demo/4.jpg" alt="picture" />
        <h2>Gerri News Heading</h2>
        <p>A very short exerpt goes here... <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/emikohime/294092478/">more</a></p>
    </li>
    
    <li>
        <img src="http://chriscoyier.github.com/MovingBoxes/demo/5.jpg" alt="picture" />
        <h2>Tabitha News Heading</h2>
        <p>A very short exerpt goes here... <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/fensterbme/499006584/">more</a></p>
    </li>
    
    <li>
        <img src="http://chriscoyier.github.com/MovingBoxes/demo/6.jpg" alt="picture" />
        <h2>Mary News Heading</h2>
        <p>A very short exerpt goes here... <a href="#">more</a></p>
    </li>
    
    <li>
       ...

CSS

#slider { width: 300px; }
#slider li { width: 150px; }

/* hide big arrows */
a.mb-scrollButtons { display: none; }

JavaScript

$('#slider').movingBoxes({
    buildNav: true,

    // e = event, slider = MovingBoxes Object, tar = current panel #
    // callback when MovingBoxes has completed initialization
    preinit: function(e, slider, tar) {
        slider.$nav
            // we can't use <a> for the arrows since the plugin looks for
            // links within the navigation controls
            .prepend('<a href="#" class="prev">◁</a>')
            .append('<a href="#" class="next">▷</a>')
            .find('.prev, .next').click(function() {
                slider[ ($(this).hasClass('next')) ? 'goForward' : 'goBack']();
            });
    }
});