Question

I’m new to jQuery and image sliders. Is it best practice to make the images that I want to slide the same size as the slider container that holds them?

Answer 1

It’s not about best practice, it depends on your needs,
but creating a slider (novice) in javascript/jQuery it’s most easier to have it same width,

• you can much easily control the sliding parent position…
• you don’t need to do CSS trickery to maintain your images centered…
• you don’t need to do javascript calculations about the sliding space left…
• one day you can replace your images with DIV elements that will hold more data…

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