A carousel of content items #

Articles that slide by, three at a time.

Life cycle: Build, example 29 of 35. Worked out on the Fit & Healthy site of Exponential 6.0.15+.

Contents #

1. In the Layouts editor
2. With templates
3. Which to choose
4. Check

In the Layouts editor #

1. Open Layouts > Layouts and the layout Landing Page / Home; the editor opens it in a draft.
2. Open the block palette (+ at the top left) and drag Carousel (group Gallery) into the zone main.
3. Fill its collection (manual or dynamic).
4. Select the block, open the Design tab and fill Slides per view (default 1), Autoplay (ms, 0 to disable) and Image attribute identifier (default image).
5. Publish layout. The pages that use the layout show the block on their next view.

With templates #

1. Copy extension/explayouts/design/standard/templates/explayouts/block/carousel.tpl to extension/mysite/design/media/templates/explayouts/block/carousel.tpl and change your copy; every block of that type changes on every layout (How a block maps to its templates).

Which to choose #

Keep Autoplay at 0 unless there is a pause control.

Check #

• Three items visible with Slides per view 3.

Related pages #

• Manual and dynamic collections
• The Design tab
• Build examples, every page
• Free documentation: this page is free to copy, translate and improve under the GNU FDL 1.3.