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Carousel Control: Spotlight example

This example uses the YUI Carousel Control to showcase a simple spotlight example using its itemSelected event. In this example, you can use arrow keys to select items as well as click on an item to select it.

Though this functionality looks a little complicated, it is very easy to implement. This is because the YUI Carousel Control handles the keyboard event and the mouse click event for setting the selection. When an item is selected, the YUI Carousel Control triggers an itemSelected event. This example subscribes to the itemSelected event to display the selected image in the spotlight.

Using the Carousel Control to Spotlight the Selected Item

Here we will use the YUI Carousel Control's itemSelected event to display the selected image.

This example has the following dependencies:

This example uses progressive enhancement; the Carousel is created from an ordered list.

We will add a container element where we can display the spotlight image.

We'll have only one (but necessary) CSS rule to set the height for the Carousel items.

Since we have the elements in place, we can invoke the Carousel's constructor to create the widget. After having the Carousel object, we can subscribe to the itemSelected event that it exposes. This event is triggered whenever an item is selected and it returns the index of the selected item. With the index of the item, we can use the Carousel's getElementForItem() API to get the reference to the Carousel's item (an li element in our case).

The getImage() function is quite easy to implement. Since we have the reference to the Carousel's item, it is straightforward to implement a function that extracts the image within it.

Configuration for This Example

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