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# YUI Library Examples: Carousel Control: Circular Carousel example

# Carousel Control: Circular Carousel example

This example showcases a simple circular Carousel. The `isCircular` configuration setting can be used to make a Carousel "circular" — meaning that, once the last item on the Carousel is selected, the "next" item will be the first item.

In this example, you can use arrow keys to select items as well as click on an item to select it. These are built-in features of the YUI Carousel Control.

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## Making the Carousel Widget to display items in a loop

Here we will use the YUI Carousel Control's `isCircular` configuration setting to make the Carousel into a loop.

This example has the following dependencies:

<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="http://yui.yahooapis.com/2.6.0/build/carousel/assets/skins/sam/carousel.css"> <script src="http://yui.yahooapis.com/2.6.0/build/yahoo/yahoo-dom-event.js"></script> <script src="http://yui.yahooapis.com/2.6.0/build/element/element-beta-min.js"></script> <script src="http://yui.yahooapis.com/2.6.0/build/carousel/carousel-beta-min.js"></script>

This example uses progressive enhancement to build the Carousel from an ordered list of elements.

<div id="container"> <ol> <li> <img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/69/213130158_0d1aa23576_d.jpg" height="375" width="500"> </li> <li> <img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/72/213128367_74b0a657c3_d.jpg" height="375" width="500"> </li> <li> <img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/98/213129707_1f40c509fa_d.jpg" height="375" width="500"> </li> <li> <img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/59/213129191_b958880a96_d.jpg" height="375" width="500"> </li> <li> <img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/92/214077367_77ae970965_d.jpg" height="375" width="500"> </li> <li> <img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/81/214076446_18fe6a6c91_d.jpg" height="375" width="500"> </li> <li> <img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/93/214075781_0604edb894_d.jpg" height="375" width="500"> </li> <li> <img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/40/214075243_ea66c4cb31_d.jpg" height="375" width="500"> </li> <li> <img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/67/214074120_33933bf232_d.jpg" height="375" width="500"> </li> <li> <img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/79/214073568_f16d1ffce7_d.jpg" height="375" width="500"> </li> </ol> </div>

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

.yui-carousel-element li { height: 375px; }

Since we have the elements in place, we can invoke the Carousel's constructor with the `isCircular` configuration to create the widget.

YAHOO.util.Event.onDOMReady(function (ev) { var carousel = new YAHOO.widget.Carousel("container", { isCircular: true, numVisible: 1 }); carousel.render(); // get ready for rendering the widget carousel.show(); // display the widget }

### Carousel Control Examples:

- Spotlight example
- Circular Carousel example
- Partially revealing previous and next items
- Using both images and text within an item
- Using Ajax for deferred loading of items
- Using the Carousel ARIA Plugin

### More Carousel Control Resources:

- User's Guide (external)
- API Documentation
- Cheat Sheet PDF (external)

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