#JuxtaposeJS

JuxtaposeJS is a simple open source tool for creating before/after image sliders. Just provide two image URLs and this will do the rest of the work for you.

###Instructions

####HTML Implementation The easist way to implement the image slider is to add this code to your markup:

<div class="juxtapose">
    <img src="http://example.com/firstimage.jpg" />
    <img src="http://example.com/secondimage.jpg" />
</div>
<script src="http://cdn.knightlab.com/lib/juxtapose/latest/js/juxtapose.min.js"></script>

Each image can also take some additional attributes.

<img src="http://image.jpg" data-label="2009" data-credit="Alex Duner/Northwestern Knight Lab" />

If each image has an data-label attribute defined, the slider will display a label on each image. If each image has a data-credit attribute defined, the slider will display a credit for each image.

The main wrapper can also take some additional attributes as well to specify a few options:

<div id="juxtapose-wrapper" class="juxtapose" data-startingposition="35%" data-showlabels="false" data-showcredits="false" data-animate="false">

Specifying a starting position with data-startingposition lets you focus the users attention on the part of the image where the change is most noticiable. To toggle the visibility of the labels and the credits respectivly, set data-showlabels and data-showcredits to false. And to disable the animation, set data-animate to false.

####Javascript Implementation The JXSlider class takes three arguments. First, is the string of the ID of the element you want to turn into a slider. Second is an array of two objects. Each object must have src defined and can optionally define a label and a credit. The third argument lets you set additional options for the image slider.

<div id="foo"></div>
<script>
slider = new JXSlider('#foo', 
    [
        {
            src: 'http://firstimage.jpg',
            label: '2009',
            credit: 'Image Credit'
        },
        {
            src: 'http://secondimage.jpg',
            label: '2014',
            credit: "Image Credit"
        }
    ], 
    {
        animate: true,
        showLabels: true,
        showCredits: true,
        startingPosition: "50%"
    });
</script>

###Modifications ####CSS You can customize how JuxtaposeJS looks by modifying its CSS. For instructions, click here.

####JavaScript

The JXSlider class contains a few methods you can use to modify your sliders.

If you instantiated your sliders with the HTML method but still want to access one of your sliders programmatically, JuxtaposeJS creates an array of the JXSliders on your page that you can access with juxtapose.sliders.

JXSlider.updateSlider(percentage, animate)

Percentage inidcates where you want to set the handle relative to the left side of the slider. If you set animate to true, the handle will animate to the new location; if animate is set to false, the handle will not.