Sync on nav slide click
Hello,
Flickity sync is the perfect solution for showing synchronized sliders. In our case it's used as a product image gallery: 1 big image in top slider and thumbnails in navigation slider beneath.
However, there is one thing missing: screen recordings of real user visits shows us that users frequently click on the navigation slides to get a bigger image in the top slider. But that does not work with flickity sync. We also tried as-nav-for which can do that but then sliders are not fully synced. Is it possible to get best of both worlds?
Thanks for reporting this issue. You should be able to add some JS to resolve this
// jQuery
$navCarousel.on( 'staticClick.flickity', function( event, pointer, cellElement, cellIndex ) {
if ( cellElement ) {
$mainCarousel.flickity( 'select', cellIndex );
}
});
// vanilla JS
navFlkty.on( 'staticClick', function( event, pointer, cellElement, cellIndex ) {
mainFlkty.select( cellIndex );
});
Yes! perfect, that's working great. Thanks.
The next ideas I have to make it a perfect product images gallery is:
- To always fit both sliders into the viewport of the browser. That would make a good UX on all devices, especially mobile devices.
- To have a "full-screen" button on the main carousel to get the main carousel full screen, images centered and with caption (that would replace lightbox functionality).
For 1. I've tried various options (always setGallerySize: false) but somehow can't get it right with this setup of nav and main slider. I guess for 2. some CSS scripting has to be done. Any ideas?
Thanks!