Javascript or JQuery for background image slideshow

Question

Hi

I want to create a slideshow using the background image of a div. I don´t want the images to rotate automatically, instead I want to use standard prev and next buttons to change the div´s background image. In total there will be around 6 images to scroll through. It needs to be a background image as the div has some other content in it.

Think this can be achieved using JQuery but not sure how.

I have the following code which automatically rotates through the images, but I don´t want them to change automatically. I need to be able to scroll through the images using the next and prev buttons.

var bgArr = ["images/img-restaurante-2.jpg", "images/img-restaurante-3.jpg", "images/img-restaurante-4.jpg", "images/img-restaurante-5.jpg", "images/img-restaurante-1.jpg" ]; 
var i=0;

// Start the slide show
var interval = self.setInterval("swapBkgnd()", 20000)  

function swapBkgnd() {
 if (i>(bgArr.length-1) ) {
  i=0
  $("#restaurante").css("background-image", "url("+bgArr[i]+")");
 }
 else {
  $("#restaurante").css("background-image", "url("+bgArr[i]+")"); 
 } 
 i++;
};

Can anyone help me?

Answer 1

Take a look at Gallerific (jQuery plugin) very slick.

Super simple to implement you just put your images in a Unordered List (UL) (in the example below the "thumbs-min" is the UL) and then do something like this;

    $(document).ready(function() {    
 // Initialize Minimal Galleriffic Gallery
 $('#gallery').galleriffic('#thumbs-min', {
 imageContainerSel:      '#slideshow',
 controlsContainerSel:   '#controls'
 });
});

Collection of jQuery slideshow related plugins here.Might be something more like Supsersized is what your looking for.

Answer 2

<script type="text/javascript">

    var bgArr = ["images/img-restaurante-2.jpg", "images/img-restaurante-3.jpg", "images/img-restaurante-4.jpg", "images/img-restaurante-5.jpg", "images/img-restaurante-1.jpg" ]; 
    var i=0;

    // Start the slide show
    setInterval(function() {
     $("#restaurante").css("background-image", "url("+bgArr[i]+")");
     (i < bgArr.length-1) ? i++ : i=0 
    }, 20000); 

</script>

Answer 3

You can use a plugin JCaroussel lite for example : http://www.gmarwaha.com/jquery/jcarousellite/

Answer 4

var bgArr = ["images/img-restaurante-2.jpg", "images/img-restaurante-3.jpg", "images/img-restaurante-4.jpg", "images/img-restaurante-5.jpg", "images/img-restaurante-1.jpg" ]; 
var i=0;



function next()
{
  i = (i== bgArr.length-1 ? 0 : i++);
  $("#restaurante").css("background-image", "url("+bgArr[i]+")");
}
function prev()
{
  i = ( i==0 ? bgArr.length-1 : i--);
  $("#restaurante").css("background-image", "url("+bgArr[i]+")");
}


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