amp-carousel

Introduction

The amp-carousel component allows displaying multiple similar pieces of content along a horizontal axis.

Setup

Import the carousel component in the header.

<script async custom-element="amp-carousel" src="https://cdn.ampproject.org/v0/amp-carousel-0.1.js"></script>

Basic Usage

Use type="carousel" to display a list of images as a continuous strip.

<amp-carousel height="300" layout="fixed-height" type="carousel" role="region" aria-label="Basic usage carousel">
  <amp-img src="/static/samples/img/image1.jpg" width="400" height="300" alt="a sample image"></amp-img>
  <amp-img src="/static/samples/img/image2.jpg" width="400" height="300" alt="another sample image"></amp-img>
  <amp-img src="/static/samples/img/image3.jpg" width="400" height="300" alt="and another sample image"></amp-img>
</amp-carousel>

Slides

Use type="slides" to display a list of images as slides.

<amp-carousel width="400" height="300" layout="responsive" type="slides" role="region" aria-label="type='slides' carousel">
  <amp-img src="/static/samples/img/image1.jpg" width="400" height="300" layout="responsive" alt="a sample image"></amp-img>
  <amp-img src="/static/samples/img/image2.jpg" width="400" height="300" layout="responsive" alt="another sample image"></amp-img>
  <amp-img src="/static/samples/img/image3.jpg" width="400" height="300" layout="responsive" alt="and another sample image"></amp-img>
</amp-carousel>

Autoplay

The autoplay attribute (type="slides" only) advances the slide to the next slide without user interaction, by default it will advance a slide in 5000 millisecond intervals (5 seconds) and can be overridden by the delay attribute.

<amp-carousel width="400" height="300" layout="responsive" type="slides" autoplay delay="2000" role="region" aria-label="Carousel with autoplay">
  <amp-img src="/static/samples/img/image1.jpg" width="400" height="300" layout="responsive" alt="a sample image"></amp-img>
  <amp-img src="/static/samples/img/image2.jpg" width="400" height="300" layout="responsive" alt="another sample image"></amp-img>
  <amp-img src="/static/samples/img/image3.jpg" width="400" height="300" layout="responsive" alt="and another sample image"></amp-img>
</amp-carousel>

Buttons

By default, carousel buttons use inlined SVGs as background-images.

You may override these with your own SVGs or images by using .amp-carousel-button-prev and .amp-carousel-button-next classes.

<amp-carousel id="custom-button" width="400" height="300" layout="responsive" type="slides" autoplay delay="2000" role="region" aria-label="Carousel with custom button styles">
  <amp-img src="/static/samples/img/image1.jpg" width="400" height="300" layout="responsive" alt="a sample image"></amp-img>
  <amp-img src="/static/samples/img/image2.jpg" width="400" height="300" layout="responsive" alt="another sample image"></amp-img>
  <amp-img src="/static/samples/img/image3.jpg" width="400" height="300" layout="responsive" alt="and another sample image"></amp-img>
</amp-carousel>

Supported Contents

Each of these nodes may also have arbitrary HTML children.

This is a blue box.

This is a red box.

This is a green box.

<amp-carousel height="300" layout="fixed-height" type="slides" role="region" aria-label="Carousel with arbitrary HTML content">
  <div>
    <div class="blue-box">
      This is a blue box.
    </div>
  </div>
  <div>
    <div class="red-box">
      This is a red box.
    </div>
  </div>
  <div>
    <div class="green-box">
      This is a green box.
    </div>
  </div>
</amp-carousel>

A good use case for amp-carousel are image galleries, here are some examples.

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Written by @sebastianbenz