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The Slick plugin is highly customizable: you can turn a carousel into an animated slideshow, control how fast the slideshow plays and even control how the carousel is navigated, simply by passing a few options to the plugin.
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Let's see where we are with our carousel.
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Now, this looks pretty cool, but we need
to do something about these buttons, and
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perhaps there are a few
other things we can add.
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Let's explore the plugin documentation.
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This link here, Settings,
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will take us to the information
we need to modify this plugin.
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As you can see,
there are a lot of settings.
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This plugin is really customizable.
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Here are a couple that seem interesting.
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Autoplay.
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This will let us turn the carousel
into an automated slide show.
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And the autoplay speed setting controls
how fast that slide show runs.
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The arrow setting, looks it controls
whether we see the Previous and
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Next buttons.
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I think we may want to turn those off.
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Notice here where it says Default.
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Default means that,
if you don't set this option yourself,
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this is how the plugin
will normally behave.
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In other words, just like we've seen, the
plugin automatically shows Previous and
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Next buttons.
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But we can change that.
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And down here there's
a setting named dots.
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This sounds cool.
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I think we should try it out.
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And finally, here's a fade option.
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Maybe we should see what it does first.
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You can follow along in workspaces.
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Just open the workspace on this page and
open the index.html file.
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We start by passing an object
literal to the plugin.
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This is where we put our settings.
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First, let's try a new effect for
when we switch slides.
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We set the fade option to true.
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Usually the plugin will make each slide
literally slide across the screen.
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But this option makes
the slides fade in and out.
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Let's see how it works.
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I'll save the workspace and preview it.
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That's pretty cool.
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Next, let's turn this into
an automated slide show.
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I'll set another option.
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Let's see what this does.
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I'll save the file, and refresh the page.
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All right, we have a slide show.
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You can control the speed of the slide
show with the autoplay speed setting.
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Let's also hide the pervious and
next buttons.
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And we'll replace them with little
dots that let you navigate the slides.
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Let's see how it looks.
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I'll save the workspace and preview it.
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Wait a minute, those don't look like dots.
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We just replaced two ugly
buttons with four ugly buttons.
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Fortunately, the slick plugin includes
another CSS file named SlickTheme.css.
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This file contains styles that change the
appearance of the user interface or UI.
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Items the slick plugin adds to the page.
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Let's go back to our workspace and
add a link to that style sheet.
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Why is there this second CSS file?
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Well, the creator of slick realized
that many designers will want to craft
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their own styles for
the different user interface elements.
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And he didn't want to clutter
up the main style sheet
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with a bunch of styles that
a designer might change anyway.
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The main style sheet is there to control
how the slides are placed on the page,
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not the appearance of the buttons or
other UI elements.
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Let's see how the carousel looks
with these new set of styles.
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Very cool.
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In the next video, I'll show you how
to customize the look of this plugin
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even more with our own CSS styles.
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