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Cool Background Image Sliding effect with jQuery

Cool Background Image Sliding effect with jQuery. Today I am going to show you how to create sliding image cell effect. This is will something like small photo gallery. I prepared 3 demos for you with different effects. Please pay attention that our demo will work in browsers that support used CSS3 properties.

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Ok, download the example files and lets start coding !


Step 1. HTML

Here are full html code of our result. For our demonstration I use 5 photos – same amount of ‘navigation’ elements you can see here too.

index.html

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en" >
    <head>
        <meta charset="utf-8" />
        <title>Cool Background Image Sliding effect with jQuery | Dev School</title>
        <link href="css/main.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

        <!--[if lt IE 9]>
          <script src="http://html5shiv.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/html5.js"></script>
        <![endif]-->
        <script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.min.js"></script>
        <script src="js/main.js"></script>
    </head>
    <body>
        <div class="container" id="container">
            <ul class="nav">
                <li id="m1">Pic 1</li>
                <li id="m2">Pic 2</li>
                <li id="m3">Pic 3</li>
                <li id="m4">Pic 4</li>
                <li id="m5">Pic 5</li>
            </ul>

            <ul class="grid">
                <li id="g1">
                    <div class="d1"></div>
                    <div class="d2"></div>
                    <div class="d3"></div>
                    <div class="d4"></div>
                    <div class="d5"></div>
                </li>
                <li id="g2">
                    <div class="d1"></div>
                    <div class="d2"></div>
                    <div class="d3"></div>
                    <div class="d4"></div>
                    <div class="d5"></div>
                </li>
                <li id="g3">
                    <div class="d1"></div>
                    <div class="d2"></div>
                    <div class="d3"></div>
                    <div class="d4"></div>
                    <div class="d5"></div>
                </li>
                <li id="g4">
                    <div class="d1"></div>
                    <div class="d2"></div>
                    <div class="d3"></div>
                    <div class="d4"></div>
                    <div class="d5"></div>
                </li>
                <li id="g5">
                    <div class="d1"></div>
                    <div class="d2"></div>
                    <div class="d3"></div>
                    <div class="d4"></div>
                    <div class="d5"></div>
                </li>
                <li id="g6">
                    <div class="d1"></div>
                    <div class="d2"></div>
                    <div class="d3"></div>
                    <div class="d4"></div>
                    <div class="d5"></div>
                </li>
            </ul>
            <ul class="demos">
                <li><a href="index.html">Demo 1</a></li>
                <li><a href="index2.html">Demo 2</a></li>
                <li><a href="index3.html">Demo 3</a></li>
            </ul>
        </div>
        <footer>
            <h2>Cool Background Image Sliding effect with jQuery</h2>
            <a href="https://dev-school.net/cool-background-image-sliding-effect-with-jquery/" class="stuts">Back to original tutorial on <span>Dev School</span></a>
        </footer>
    </body>
</html>

Step 2. CSS

Now – our CSS styles. I will omit unnecessary styles of page layout, but will show you most important

css/main.css

.nav {
    background-color:#DDD;
    list-style:none outside none;
    overflow:hidden;
    padding:5px 140px;
}
.nav li {
    border-radius:10px;
    -moz-border-radius:10px;
    -webkit-border-radius:10px;

    border:2px outset #000000;
    color:#000;
    cursor:pointer;
    float:left;
    font-size:18px;
    font-weight:bold;
    margin-right:5px;
    padding:10px;
}

.demos {
    background-color:#DDD;
    list-style:none outside none;
    overflow:hidden;
    padding:5px 165px;
}
.demos li {
    border-radius:10px;
    -moz-border-radius:10px;
    -webkit-border-radius:10px;

    border:2px outset #000000;
    color:#000;
    float:left;
    font-size:18px;
    font-weight:bold;
    margin-right:5px;
    padding:10px;
}
.demos li a {
    color:#000;
    cursor:pointer;
    display:block;
    font-size:20px;
    font-weight:bold;
    height:30px;
    line-height:30px;
    text-decoration:none;
}

.grid {
    background-color:#DDD;
    list-style:none outside none;
    width:100%;
}
.grid li {
    border:1px solid #777777;
    float:left;
    height:240px;
    width:211px;

    transition:all 0.5s linear;
    -moz-transition:all 0.5s linear;
    -o-transition:all 0.5s linear;
    -webkit-transition:all 0.5s linear;
}
.grid li div {
    transition:all 0.5s ease-in-out;
    -moz-transition:all 0.5s ease-in-out;
    -o-transition:all 0.5s ease-in-out;
    -webkit-transition:all 0.5s ease-in-out;

    float:left;
}
.grid li .d1 {
    background:transparent url(../images/grid1.jpg) no-repeat top left;
    height:100%;
    width:211px;
}
.grid li .d2 {
    background:transparent url(../images/grid2.jpg) no-repeat top left;
    height:100%;
    width:0;
}
.grid li .d3 {
    background:transparent url(../images/grid3.jpg) no-repeat top left;
    height:100%;
    width:0;
}
.grid li .d4 {
    background:transparent url(../images/grid4.jpg) no-repeat top left;
    height:100%;
    width:0;
}
.grid li .d5 {
    background:transparent url(../images/grid5.jpg) no-repeat top left;
    height:100%;
    width:0;
}
.grid li#g2 div {
    background-position:-211px 0;
}
.grid li#g3 div {
    background-position:-422px 0;
}
.grid li#g4 div {
    background-position:0 -240px;
}
.grid li#g5 div {
    background-position:-211px -240px;
}
.grid li#g6 div {
    background-position:-422px -240px;
}

As you can see – each grid cell element (LI) have some defined background, but with own background positions. And, I will use jQuery ‘animate’ to shift these positions when we will switch our images (through navigation)

Step 3. jQuery

js/main.js

$(function(){
    $(".nav li").hover( 
      function () { 
        $('.grid li div').stop().animate({width:"0"},0);

        var ind = $(".nav li").index(this);
        $($('.grid li#g1 div')[ind]).stop().animate({width:"211px"},0);
        $($('.grid li#g2 div')[ind]).stop().animate({width:"211px"},50);
        $($('.grid li#g3 div')[ind]).stop().animate({width:"211px"},100);
        $($('.grid li#g4 div')[ind]).stop().animate({width:"211px"},150);
        $($('.grid li#g5 div')[ind]).stop().animate({width:"211px"},200);
        $($('.grid li#g6 div')[ind]).stop().animate({width:"211px"},250);
      }
    );
});

As you can see – all very easy.


Live Demo

Conclusion

All another demos very similar, only few changes in styles and javascript code. You are welcome to play with our demos. Good luck!