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Slick

Name: Slick
Author: kenwheeler

by kenwheelerJavaScript

Fully responsive carousel library for building image and content sliders

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Last commit: 2026-08-01
License: MIT
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Building a responsive carousel with dots, arrows, swipe and breakpoints by hand is repetitive work.

Use it when

Use it on a jQuery based page that needs a configurable slider without adopting a modern framework.

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The README notes version 2.0.0 is not available via Bower or NPM, so the latest version needs the CDN links.

Capabilities

responsive settings applied per breakpoint, including unslick
autoplay with pause on hover, focus and dot hover
lazy load in ondemand or progressive mode
settings supplied through the data-slick attribute
sync multiple sliders together with asNavFor
RTL direction, fade, center mode and grid rows

Requirements

jQuery, with version 2.0 compatible with jQuery 4

Cost: Free and open source

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Video walkthroughs

How To Create A Website step by step | Slick Slider Tutorial

Divinector · 7K views · ≈Aug 2021

How to use Slick Slider in html website | Full Screen Slick carousel with navbar

Divinector · 4K views · ≈Aug 2019

Part 1/5: File Structure & Dependencies | Slick.js Slider Module | Hubspot Custom Module Tutorial

Reely Coding · 660 views · ≈Aug 2020

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Latest release v2.0.1

Published 2026-07-30

A small maintenance release featuring one RTL bug fix.

🐛 Bug fixes

Fixed RTL + variableWidth rendering as LTR. Slick's right-to-left layout depends on the [dir=rtl] .slick-slide CSS rule, but the rtl: true option only drove the JavaScript positioning. It never guaranteed that rule matched. As a result, pages that set direction via CSS (direction: rtl), a utility class, or a dir="rtl" attribute that wasn't an ancestor of the slider would render left-to-right, which was especially broken with variableWidth: true. Slick now applies dir="rtl" to its own slider element when rtl: true, so the option works on its own regardless of surrounding markup.

Full changelog: https://github.com/kenwheeler/slick/compare/v2.0.0...v2.0.1

README

slick

[1]: <https://github.com/kenwheeler/slick>

_the last carousel you'll ever need_

Version 2.0

Version 2.0 is compatible with jQuery 4.

Demo

http://kenwheeler.github.io/slick

CDN

To start working with Slick right away, there's a couple of CDN choices available

to serve the files as close, and fast as possible to your users:

https://cdnjs.com/libraries/slick-carousel
https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/kenwheeler/slick/

Example using from jsDelivr

Just add a link to the css file in your <head>. If you are using jQuery 4.0 or higher, use the following:


<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/kenwheeler/slick@master/slick/slick.css"/>
<!-- Add the slick-theme.css if you want default styling -->
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/kenwheeler/slick@master/slick/slick-theme.css"/>

Then, before your closing ``<body>`` tag add:


<script type="text/javascript" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/kenwheeler/slick@master/slick/slick.min.js"></script>

If you are using jQuery 3.0 or lower, use the following:


<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/kenwheeler/slick@1.8.1/slick/slick.css"/>
<!-- Add the slick-theme.css if you want default styling -->
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/kenwheeler/slick@1.8.1/slick/slick-theme.css"/>

Then, before your closing ``<body>`` tag add:


<script type="text/javascript" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/kenwheeler/slick@1.8.1/slick/slick.min.js"></script>

Package Managers


# Bower
bower install --save slick-carousel

# NPM
npm install slick-carousel

[!NOTE]

Version 2.0.0 of Slick is currently not available via Bower or NPM. Please use the CDN links above to get the latest version.

Contributing

PLEASE review CONTRIBUTING.markdown prior to requesting a feature, filing a pull request or filing an issue.

Data Attribute Settings

In slick 1.5 you can now add settings using the data-slick attribute. You still need to call $(element).slick() to initialize slick on the element.

Example:


<div data-slick='{"slidesToShow": 4, "slidesToScroll": 4}'>
  <div><h3>1</h3></div>
  <div><h3>2</h3></div>
  <div><h3>3</h3></div>
  <div><h3>4</h3></div>
  <div><h3>5</h3></div>
  <div><h3>6</h3></div>
</div>

Settings

Option | Type | Default | Description

------ | ---- | ------- | -----------

accessibility | boolean | true | Enables tabbing and arrow key navigation. Unless autoplay: true, sets browser focus to current slide (or first of current slide set, if multiple slidesToShow) after slide change. For full a11y compliance enable focusOnChange in addition to this.

adaptiveHeight | boolean | false | Adapts slider height to the current slide

appendArrows | string | $(element) | Change where the navigation arrows are attached (Selector, htmlString, Array, Element, jQuery object)

appendDots | string | $(element) | Change where the navigation dots are attached (Selector, htmlString, Array, Element, jQuery object)

arrows | boolean | true | Enable Next/Prev arrows

asNavFor | string | $(element) | Enables syncing of multiple sliders

autoplay | boolean | false | Enables auto play of slides

autoplaySpeed | int | 3000 | Auto play change interval

centerMode | boolean | false | Enables centered view with partial prev/next slides. Use with odd numbered slidesToShow counts.

centerPadding | string | '50px' | Side padding when in center mode. (px or %)

cssEase | string | 'ease' | CSS3 easing

customPaging | function | n/a | Custom paging templates. See source for use example.

dots | boolean | false | Current slide indicator dots

dotsClass | string | 'slick-dots' | Class for slide indicator dots container

draggable | boolean | true | Enables desktop dragging

easing | string | 'linear' | animate() fallback easing

edgeFriction | integer | 0.15 | Resistance when swiping edges of non-infinite carousels

fade | boolean | false | Enables fade

focusOnSelect | boolean | false | Enable focus on selected element (click)

focusOnChange | boolean | false | Puts focus on slide after change

infinite | boolean | true | Infinite looping

initialSlide | integer | 0 | Slide to start on

lazyLoad | string | 'ondemand' | Accepts 'ondemand' or 'progressive' for lazy load technique. 'ondemand' will load the image as soon as you slide to it, 'progressive' loads one image after the other when the page loads.

mobileFirst | boolean | false | Responsive settings use mobile first calculation

pauseOnDotsHover | boolean | false | Pauses autoplay when a dot is hovered

pauseOnFocus | boolean | true | Pauses autoplay when slider is focussed

pauseOnHover | boolean | true | Pauses autoplay on hover

respondTo | string | 'window' | Width that responsive object responds to. Can be 'window', 'slider' or 'min' (the smaller of the two).

responsive | array | null | Array of objects containing breakpoints and settings objects (see example). Enables settings at given breakpoint. Set settings to "unslick" instead of an object to disable slick at a given breakpoint.

rows | int | 1 | Setting this to more than 1 initializes grid mode. Use slidesPerRow to set how many slides should be in each row.

rtl | boolean | false | Change the slider's direction to become right-to-left

slide | string | '' | Slide element query

slidesPerRow | int | 1 | With grid mode initialized via the rows option, this sets how many slides are in each grid row.

slidesToScroll | int | 1 | # of slides to scroll at a time

slidesToShow | int | 1 | # of slides to show at a time

speed | int | 300 | Transition speed

swipe | boolean | true | Enables touch swipe

swipeToSlide | boolean | false | Swipe to slide irrespective of slidesToScroll

touchMove | boolean | true | Enables slide moving with touch

touchThreshold | int | 5 | To advance slides, the user must swipe a length of (1/touchThreshold) * the width of the slider.

useCSS | boolean | true | Enable/Disable CSS Transitions

useTransform | boolean | true | Enable/Disable CSS Transforms

variableWidth | boolean | false | Disables automatic slide width calculation

vertical | boolean | false | Vertical slide direction

verticalSwiping | boolean | false | Changes swipe direction to vertical

waitForAnimate | boolean | true | Ignores requests to advance the slide while animating

zIndex | number | 1000 | Set the zIndex values for slides, useful for IE9 and lower

Responsive Option Example

The responsive option, and value, is quite unique and powerful.

You can use it like so:


$(".slider").slick({

  // normal options...
  infinite: false,

  // the magic
  responsive: [{

      breakpoint: 1024,
      settings: {
        slidesToShow: 3,
        infinite: true
      }

    }, {

      breakpoint: 600,
      settings: {
        slidesToShow: 2,
        dots: true
      }

    }, {

      breakpoint: 300,
      settings: "unslick" // destroys slick

    }]
});

Events

In slick 1.4, callback methods were deprecated and replaced with events. Use them before the initialization of slick as shown below:


// On swipe event
$('.your-element').on('swipe', function(event, slick, direction){
  console.log(direction);
  // left
});

// On edge hit
$('.your-element').on('edge', function(event, slick, direction){
  console.log('edge was hit')
});

// On before slide change
$('.your-element').on('beforeChange', function(event, slick, currentSlide, nextSlide){
  console.log(nextSlide);
});

Event | Params | Description

------ | -------- | -----------

afterChange | event, slick, currentSlide | After slide change callback

beforeChange | event, slick, currentSlide, nextSlide | Before slide change callback

breakpoint | event, slick, breakpoint | Fires after a breakpoint is hit

destroy | event, slick | When slider is destroyed, or unslicked.

edge | event, slick, direction | Fires when an edge is overscrolled in non-infinite mode.

init | event, slick | When Slick initializes for the first time callback. Note that this event should be defined before initializing the slider.

reInit | event, slick | Every time Slick (re-)initializes callback

setPosition | event, slick | Every time Slick recalculates position

swipe | event, slick, direction | Fires after swipe/drag

lazyLoaded | event, slick, image, imageSource | Fires after image loads lazily

lazyLoadError | event, slick, image, imageSource | Fires after image fails to load

Methods

Methods are called on slick instances through the slick method itself in version 1.4, see below:


// Add a slide
$('.your-element').slick('slickAdd',"<div></div>");

// Get the current slide
var currentSlide = $('.your-element').slick('slickCurrentSlide');

This new syntax allows you to call any internal slick method as well:


// Manually refresh positioning of slick
$('.your-element').slick('setPosition');

Method | Argument | Description

------ | -------- | -----------

slick | options : object | Initializes Slick

unslick | | Destroys Slick

slickNext | | Triggers next slide

slickPrev | | Triggers previous slide

slickPause | | Pause Autoplay

slickPlay | | Start Autoplay (_will also set autoplay option to true_)

slickGoTo | index : int, dontAnimate : bool | Goes to slide by index, skipping animation if second parameter is set to true

slickCurrentSlide | | Returns the current slide index

slickAdd | element : html or DOM object, index: int, addBefore: bool | Add a slide. If an index is provided, will add at that index, or before if addBefore is set. If no index is provided, add to the end or to the beginning if addBefore is set. Accepts HTML String || Object

slickRemove | index: int, removeBefore: bool | Remove slide by index. If removeBefore is set true, remove slide preceding index, or the first slide if no index is specified. If removeBefore is set to false, remove the slide following index, or the last slide if no index is set.

slickFilter | filter : selector or function | Filters slides using jQuery .filter syntax

slickUnfilter | | Removes applied filter

slickGetOption | option : string(option name) | Gets an option value.

slickSetOption | change an option, refresh is always boolean and will update UI changes...

| option, value, refresh | change a single option to given value; refresh is optional.

| "responsive", [{ breakpoint: n, settings: {} }, ... ], refresh | change or add whole sets of responsive options

| { option: value, option: value, ... }, refresh | change multiple options to corresponding values.

Example

Initialize with:


$(element).slick({
  dots: true,
  speed: 500
});

Change the speed with:


$(element).slick('slickSetOption', 'speed', 5000, true);

Destroy with:


$(element).slick('unslick');

Sass Variables

Variable | Type | Default | Description

------ | ---- | ------- | -----------

$slick-font-path | string | "./fonts/" | Directory path for the slick icon font

$slick-font-family | string | "slick" | Font-family for slick icon font

$slick-loader-path | string | "./" | Directory path for the loader image

$slick-arrow-color | color | white | Color of the left/right arrow icons

$slick-dot-color | color | black | Color of the navigation dots

$slick-dot-color-active | color | $slick-dot-color | Color of the active navigation dot

$slick-prev-character | string | '\2190' | Unicode character code for the previous arrow icon

$slick-next-character | string | '\2192' | Unicode character code for the next arrow icon

$slick-dot-character | string | '\2022' | Unicode character code for the navigation dot icon

$slick-dot-size | pixels | 6px | Size of the navigation dots

Browser support

Slick works on IE8+ in addition to other modern browsers such as Chrome, Firefox, and Safari.

Dependencies

jQuery 1.7

License

Licensed under the MIT license.

Free as in Bacon.