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Content Rotator with jQuery

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Today we want to share a fancy content rotator with you. It shows some image with a headline and sub-headline in each slide and allows navigating through the slides using the thumbnails that also contain a headline. Hiding the thumbnails will reveal a scrollable text container and the navigation arrows will move up so that one can navigate to the previous or next slides.
The beautiful images are by Andrey & Lili. The images are licensed under the Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC 3.0) License.
We also use the jQuery Mousewheel Plugin by Brandon Aaron and the jScrollPane Plugin by Kevin Luck.

Examples

We have two examples, one with autoplay and one without:
For the HTML structure we will have a main container, the content wrapper and the container for the thumbs. Each cr-content-container needs an ID assigned which we will reference in each thumb with data-content:
<div class="cr-container" id="cr-container">
 <div class="cr-content-wrapper" id="cr-content-wrapper">
  <div class="cr-content-container" id="content-1" style="display:block;">
   <img src="images/1.jpg"class="cr-img"/>
   <div class="cr-content">
    <div class="cr-content-headline">
     <h2>The slide title</h2>
     <h3>
      <span>Some sub-title</span>
      <a href="#" class="cr-more-link"> read more →</a>
     </h3>
    </div>
    <div class="cr-content-text">
     <p>Some text here...</p>
    </div>
   </div><!-- cr-content -->
  </div><!-- cr-content-container -->
  <div class="cr-content-container" id="content-2">
   ...
  </div><!-- cr-content-container -->
  ...
 </div><!-- cr-content-wrapper -->
 <div class="cr-thumbs">
  <div data-content="content-1" class="cr-selected">
   <img src="images/thumbs/1.jpg"/>
   <h4>The slide title</h4>
  </div>
  <div data-content="content-2">
   <img src="images/thumbs/2.jpg"/>
   <h4>Another slide title</h4>
  </div>
  ...
 </div><!-- cr-thumbs -->
</div><!-- cr-container -->
The default options are the following:
$('#cr-container').crotator({
 // slideshow on
 autoplay    : false,
 // slideshow interval
 slideshow_interval  : 3000,
 // if true the thumbs will be shown initially
 openThumbs   : true,
 // speed that the thumbs are shown / hidden
 toggleThumbsSpeed : 300
});
We hope you like this little content rotator and find it useful!
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