How to Create Slideshow in HTML

Overview

A slideshow in HTML is referred to as a series of content, where each piece of content is displayed one after another. Below is an example of an image slider in html. showing-images-through-slideshow

Slideshows in HTML are often used for creating web interfaces mainly for advertisement platforms. These are easy to implement and can be done with the help of HTML and CSS only, javascript can also be used if certain conditional features are to be added otherwise HTML and CSS are enough.

Pre-requisites

A basic understanding of HTML and CSS syntax and workflow of basic css properties is enough to continue with this article.

What are we Creating ?

We are going to create an automatic content Slideshow in HTML and decorate it with CSS only, glims of the same are attached below. example-of-slideshow

Approach for Building the Slideshow

Here we will create a content slider using HTML and CSS only. The idea is to use the technique of using animation Keyframes to scroll through each of the slides by changing the margin-left property for the targeted slide during the animation. The animation type can be chosen, allowing the slides to be animated for the desired duration and effect.

We'll break the task into two sections :

In the first part we will create the HTML structure.
In the second task, we will decorate the page and animate it through CSS.

The same idea can be used to create an image slider in html, take that as a follow-up for this article.

Creating the Slide Show Component Structure with HTML

The idea is simple we will need to put the complete content into a wrapper div and another div will be used to wrap the slide content so that we can target it using the ":nth-child" property of CSS.

See the code below-

Styling the Slide Show Component with CSS

The role of CSS is major in this project, CSS will be used to display and slide the content, will decide the duration of each slide to display, and will set the direction of the slide, Below are some style properties that we have used.

If the content of an element is too big to fit in the specified region, we've utilized the overflow: hidden to clip the extra content and make the rest of it invisible. To align the contents to the left, the float: left is utilized.
CSS property is used to target each slide separately.
The keyframes property will be used to scroll through each of the slides by changing the margin-left property for each of the slides during the animation to define the motion for the slideshow.

See the CSS styles used in the code below.

Conclusion

We have successfully created a basic slideshow animation using HTML and CSS only.
We also came to know about many HTML and CSS properties and approaches like nth-child and keyframes animations.

How to Create Slideshow in HTML?