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Better Netflix Carousel using SwiperJS

By Raddy in CSS JavaScript ·

This is a remake of my first YouTube tutorial that I did showing you how to create a simple Netflix looking like slider. This time I wanted to take it a step further by using a JavaScript framework called SwiperJS. SwiperJS has amazing API options that we can use to build amazing easy to use carousels.

First of all, make sure you download SwiperJS from here: https://swiperjs.com/

HTML

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <title>Netflix 1.1</title>
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, minimum-scale=1, maximum-scale=1">

  <!-- Link Swiper's CSS -->
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="../package/css/swiper.min.css">
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/styles.css">

  <!-- Demo styles -->
  <style>

  </style>
</head>
<body>
  <!-- Swiper -->
  <h1>NETFLIX</h1>

  <div class="netflix-slider">
    <h2>Popular on Netflix</h2>
    <div class="swiper-container">
      <div class="swiper-wrapper">
        <div class="swiper-slide"><img src="img/1.jpg" alt="Movie Title"></div>
        <div class="swiper-slide"><img src="img/2.jpg" alt="Movie Title"></div>
        <div class="swiper-slide"><img src="img/3.jpg" alt="Movie Title"></div>
        <div class="swiper-slide"><img src="img/4.jpg" alt="Movie Title"></div>
        <div class="swiper-slide"><img src="img/5.jpg" alt="Movie Title"></div>
        <div class="swiper-slide"><img src="img/6.jpg" alt="Movie Title"></div>
        <div class="swiper-slide"><img src="img/7.jpg" alt="Movie Title"></div>
        <div class="swiper-slide"><img src="img/8.jpg" alt="Movie Title"></div>
        <div class="swiper-slide"><img src="img/9.jpg" alt="Movie Title"></div>
        <div class="swiper-slide"><img src="img/10.jpg" alt="Movie Title"></div>
      </div>
      <!-- Add Pagination -->
      <!-- <div class="swiper-pagination"></div> -->
      <div class="swiper-button-next"></div>
      <div class="swiper-button-prev"></div>
    </div>
  </div>

  <div class="netflix-slider">
    <h2>Continue watching...</h2>
    <div class="swiper-container">
      <div class="swiper-wrapper">
        <div class="swiper-slide"><img src="img/1.jpg" alt="Movie Title"></div>
        <div class="swiper-slide"><img src="img/2.jpg" alt="Movie Title"></div>
        <div class="swiper-slide"><img src="img/3.jpg" alt="Movie Title"></div>
        <div class="swiper-slide"><img src="img/4.jpg" alt="Movie Title"></div>
        <div class="swiper-slide"><img src="img/5.jpg" alt="Movie Title"></div>
        <div class="swiper-slide"><img src="img/6.jpg" alt="Movie Title"></div>
        <div class="swiper-slide"><img src="img/7.jpg" alt="Movie Title"></div>
        <div class="swiper-slide"><img src="img/8.jpg" alt="Movie Title"></div>
        <div class="swiper-slide"><img src="img/9.jpg" alt="Movie Title"></div>
        <div class="swiper-slide"><img src="img/10.jpg" alt="Movie Title"></div>
      </div>
      <!-- Add Pagination -->
      <!-- <div class="swiper-pagination"></div> -->
      <div class="swiper-button-next"></div>
      <div class="swiper-button-prev"></div>
    </div>
  </div>

  <!-- Swiper JS -->
  <script src="../package/js/swiper.min.js"></script>

  <!-- Initialize Swiper -->
  <script>
    var swiper = new Swiper('.swiper-container', {
      slidesPerView: 6,
      spaceBetween: 10,
      slidesPerGroup: 2,
      pagination: {
        el: '.swiper-pagination',
        clickable: true,
      },
      navigation: {
        nextEl: '.swiper-button-next',
        prevEl: '.swiper-button-prev',
      },
    });
  </script>
</body>
</html>

SCSS

html, body {
    position: relative;
    height: 100%;
  }
  body {
    background: #000;
    font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
    font-size: 14px;
    color:#fff;
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
  }
  .swiper-container {
    width: 100%;
    height: 100%;
  }
  .swiper-slide {
    text-align: center;
    font-size: 18px;
    /* Update: Removed the Flex property - IE FIX */
  }

  img {
      max-width: 100%;
      height: auto;
  }


  h1 {
      font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
      color: red;
      text-align: center;
  }

    :root {
        --swiper-theme-color: #fff;
    }

  .netflix-slider {
    .swiper-wrapper {
        padding: 20px 0;
    }

    .swiper-slide {
        transition: 250ms all;

        &:hover {
            transform: scale(1.2);
            z-index: 1;
        }

        &:first-child:hover{
            margin:0 40px;
        }

        &:last-child:hover{
            margin:0 -40px;
        }

    }


  }

Compiled CSS (if you need it)

html, body {
  position: relative;
  height: 100%;
}

body {
  background: #000;
  font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
  font-size: 14px;
  color: #fff;
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
}

.swiper-container {
  width: 100%;
  height: 100%;
}

.swiper-slide {
  text-align: center;
  font-size: 18px;
  
  /* Update: Removed the Flex property - IE FIX */
 
}

img {
  max-width: 100%;
  height: auto;
}

h1 {
  font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
  color: red;
  text-align: center;
}

:root {
  --swiper-theme-color: #fff;
}

.netflix-slider .swiper-wrapper {
  padding: 20px 0;
}

.netflix-slider .swiper-slide {
  -webkit-transition: 250ms all;
  transition: 250ms all;
}

.netflix-slider .swiper-slide:hover {
  -webkit-transform: scale(1.2);
          transform: scale(1.2);
  z-index: 1;
}

.netflix-slider .swiper-slide:first-child:hover {
  margin: 0 40px;
}

.netflix-slider .swiper-slide:last-child:hover {
  margin: 0 -40px;
}
/*# sourceMappingURL=styles.css.map */

YouTube Question: How can you do this with an array of items?

First let’s create a simple array that contains a movie title and imageUrl.

let movies = [
  {title : "Inception", imageUrl: "add image url"},
  {title : "Sons of Anarchy", imageUrl: "add image url"}
];

To display the movies, we can loop through the array using a forEach loop. The data will be added to the result variable and then rendered on the screen using innerHTML. See example below:

function myFunction() {
  let result = "";
  movies.forEach(function (item) {
    result += "<div class='swiper-slide'><img src='"+ item.imageUrl +"' alt='alt text'> " + item.title + " ";
  });
  
  document.getElementById("listMovies").innerHTML = result;
}

myFunction();

Last, we need somewhere to output the information. In our case we could do that by giving our div with the class name of swiper-wrapper an id of something like #listMovies.

<div id="listMovies" class="swiper-wrapper">
<div>

That’s it.

The download link is below, but feel free to copy and paste the code above – it’s the same thing.

Donations are appreciated, but not required.

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  1. Pingback: Netflix Carousel using CSS - Raddy
  2. John says:
    15th July 2020 at 2:03 pm

    I’m seeing the videos display vertically in both Chrome & Firefox. Is there an error with the source code?

    Reply
    1. Raddy says:
      15th July 2020 at 2:12 pm

      Is that when you go fullscreen on mobile?

      Reply
  3. Sebastian says:
    24th August 2020 at 1:19 pm

    same problem: on ie11 it is vertically, in firefox it works.

    Reply
    1. Raddy says:
      24th August 2020 at 1:42 pm

      IE doesn’t support the flex property. The fix would be to remove everything display flex from .swiper-slide class name

      Reply
  4. michael baxter says:
    1st October 2020 at 7:33 pm

    I’m getting the vertical error with chrome

    Reply
    1. Raddy says:
      1st October 2020 at 7:36 pm

      Can you share the code?

      Reply
    2. michael baxter says:
      1st October 2020 at 7:41 pm

      I take it back i have fixed it i forgot to CDN to swiper thanks man

      Reply
      1. Raddy says:
        1st October 2020 at 7:44 pm

        I am glad that you managed to figure it out. Thanks for letting me know 🙂

        Reply
  5. michael baxter says:
    1st October 2020 at 7:43 pm

    it’s blokes like you that save me hours of messing around reinventing you’re a true legend!!!

    Reply
  6. Eki Baehaki says:
    1st November 2020 at 1:22 am

    Saya dari Indonesia. Terima kasih untuk tutorialnya. Sangat bermanfaat. Semoga sukses untuk karirnya.

    Reply
    1. Raddy says:
      1st November 2020 at 10:19 am

      Thank you!

      Reply
  7. Sascha says:
    30th November 2020 at 11:36 am

    This is really awesome!
    But one question. i want to show just 2 or 3 columns on mobile view. actually there are 6.
    if I add a “width:25% !important;” to “.swiper-slide ” the scrolling doesn’t work correctly.
    Is there any solution for this?

    Cause in my code there is added a “style=”width: 169.667px; margin-right: 10px;” to every .swiper-slide div?

    Reply
    1. Raddy says:
      30th November 2020 at 11:43 am

      Hi Sascha,

      You can add breakpoints options like this:


      // Default parameters
      slidesPerView: 1,
      spaceBetween: 10,
      // Responsive breakpoints
      breakpoints: {
      // when window width is >= 320px
      320: {
      slidesPerView: 2,
      spaceBetween: 20
      },
      // when window width is >= 480px
      480: {
      slidesPerView: 3,
      spaceBetween: 30
      },
      // when window width is >= 640px
      640: {
      slidesPerView: 4,
      spaceBetween: 40
      }

      Or you can do slidesPerView number or ‘auto’.
      Example:
      slidesPerView: 'auto'

      If you use it with “auto” value and along with loop: true then you need to specify loopedSlides parameter with amount of slides to loop (duplicate)

      I hope this helps!

      Reply
  8. Alem says:
    8th January 2021 at 6:47 pm

    is it possible to fetch data using axios or fetch instead of creating an array

    Reply
    1. Raddy says:
      8th January 2021 at 7:41 pm

      Yeah absolutely. Just fetch the data and populate the information.

      Reply

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