Swipe is a lightweight mobile slider with 1-to-1 touch movement. For more info read the blog post.

Swipe only needs to follow a simple pattern. Here is an example:

<div id='slider'>
  <ul>
  	<li style='display:block'></li>
  	<li style='display:none'></li>
  	<li style='display:none'></li>
  	<li style='display:none'></li>
  	<li style='display:none'></li>
  </ul>
</div>

Above is the initial required structure– a series of elements wrapped in two containers. An unordered list makes sense here, but this can be any combination of elements that has the same structure. (more on the display:block/none reasoning below).Place any content you want within the items. The containing div will need to be passed to a new Swipe object like so:

window.mySwipe = new Swipe(document.getElementById('slider'));

I always place this at the bottom of the page, externally, to verify the page is ready.

Swipe can take an optional second parameter– an object of key/value settings:

• startSlide Integer (default:0) - index position Swipe should start at

• speed Integer (default:300) - speed of prev and next transitions in milliseconds.

• breakPoint Integer (default:0) - specifies which breakpoint width to change from fading to sliding.

• auto Integer - begin with auto slideshow (time in milliseconds between slides)

• callback Function - runs at the end of any slide change. (effective for updating position indicators/counters)

window.mySwipe = new Swipe(document.getElementById('slider'), {
	startSlide: 2,
	speed: 400,
	breakPoint: 1024,
    auto: 3000,
	callback: function(event, index, elem) {

	  // do something cool

	}
});

Swipe exposes a few functions that can be useful for script control of your slider.

prev() slide to prev

next() slide to next

getPos() returns current slide index position

slide(index, duration) slide to set index position (duration: speed of transition in milliseconds)

Modernizr with csstransitions is required for the library to run.

jQuery is required for backwards compability, if csstransitions is not supported by the browser.

This is why I set all elements but the first list item to display:none– if the device doesn't pass the feature tests then it will fallback to displaying only the first item.

I would love to hear more about how to improve Swipe. Play with it and let me know how you use and please fork away. If you have any questions, contact me on Twitter or GitHub.

Swipe mobile slider is © 2011 Brad Birdsall and is licensed under the terms of GPL & MIT licenses.