Options

Changing Options

Splide takes various options to customize how the slider works. You can change them in 3 ways.

By JavaScript

The Splide constructor accepts options as the second argument:

new Splide( '.splide', {
  type   : 'loop',
  perPage: 3,
} );
JavaScript

new Splide( '.splide', {
  type   : 'loop',
  perPage: 3,
} );

By Data Attribute

You can also pass options in the JSON format through the data-splide attribute:

<div class="splide" data-splide='{"type":"loop","perPage":3}'>
</div>
HTML

<div class="splide" data-splide='{"type":"loop","perPage":3}'>
</div>

In this example, the value is enclosed by single quotes to use double quotes in JSON string, or you need to escape them with ".

Note that options of the data attribute override the ones provided by the constructor.

By Static Property (Advanced)

If you have multiple sliders, you may want to set common options shared by all sliders. You can set default options by the Splide.defaults static property:

Splide.defaults = {
  type   : 'loop',
  perPage: 2,
}
JavaScript

Splide.defaults = {
  type   : 'loop',
  perPage: 2,
}

Splide uses these options as default and overwrites them by options from the constructor and the data attribute.

Options

Splide has 2 different kinds of options - readonly options and responsive options.

You can update responsive options by breakpoints or by passing an object to Splide#options, whereas you must not update readonly options. They'll seem to respond to dynamic change, but Splide does not guarantee the behavior.

Here is the list of all options. Responsive options have the mark.

type

The type of the slider.

rewind

Determines whether to rewind the slider or not. This does not work in the loop mode.

speed

The transition speed in milliseconds. If 0, the slider immediately jumps to the target slide.

rewindSpeed

The transition speed on rewind in milliseconds. The speed value is used as default.

width

Defines the slider max width, accepting the CSS format such as 10em, 80vw. The example below sets the slider width to 80%.

height

Defines the slide height, accepting the CSS format except for %.

fixedWidth

Fixes width of slides, accepting the CSS format. The slider will ignore the perPage option if you provide this value.

fixedHeight

Fixes height of slides, accepting the CSS format except for %. The slider will ignore perPage, height and heightRatio options if you provide this value.

heightRatio

Determines height of slides by the ratio to the slider width. For example, when the slider width is 1000 and the ratio is 0.3, the height will be 300.

autoWidth

If true, the width of slides are determined by their width. The perPage and perMove options should be 1.

autoHeight

If true, the height of slides are determined by their height. The perPage and perMove options should be 1.

start

Defines the start index.

perPage

Determines the number of slides to display in a page. The value must be an integer.

perMove

Determines the number of slides to move at once. The following example displays 3 slides per page but moves slides one by one. The value must be an integer.

clones

Specifies the number of clones on each side of the loop slider.

focus

Determines which slide should be active if the slider has multiple slides in a page. By default, Splide trims edge spaces like this:

If you want to show these spaces, disable the feature by the trimSpace option.

gap

The gap between slides. The CSS format is acceptable, such as 1em.

padding

Sets padding left/right for the horizontal slider or top/bottom for the vertical slider. Provide a single value to set the same size for both, or an object literal for different sizes. The CSS format is acceptable, such as 1em.

// By number
padding: 10

// By the CSS format
padding: '1rem'

// Specifies each value for a horizontal slider
padding: { left: 10, right: 20 }
padding: { left: '1rem', right: '2rem' }

// Specified each value for a vertical slider
padding: { top: 10, bottom: 20 }
JavaScript

// By number
padding: 10


// By the CSS format
padding: '1rem'


// Specifies each value for a horizontal slider
padding: { left: 10, right: 20 }
padding: { left: '1rem', right: '2rem' }


// Specified each value for a vertical slider
padding: { top: 10, bottom: 20 }

The example below has the 20% padding on each side:

arrows

Determines whether to create arrows or not. This option still must be true if you provide arrows by HTML.

pagination

Determines whether to create pagination (indicator dots) or not.

easing

The timing function for the CSS transition, such as linear, ease or cubic-bezier().

easingFunc

The easing function for the drag free mode.

drag

Determines whether to allow the user to drag the slider or not.

dragMinThreshold

The required distance to start moving the slider by the touch action. If you also want to set the threshold for a mouse, provide an object.

These 2 settings lead the same result:

{
  dragMinThreshold: 10,
}

{
  dragMinThreshold: {
    mouse: 0,
    touch: 10,
  },
}
JavaScript

{
  dragMinThreshold: 10,
}


{
  dragMinThreshold: {
    mouse: 0,
    touch: 10,
  },
}

flickPower

Determine the power of "flick". The larger number this is, the farther the slider runs. Around 500 is recommended.

flickMaxPages

Limits the number of pages to move by the flick action.

waitForTransition

Determines whether to disable any actions while the slider is transitioning. Even if false, the slider forcibly waits for the transition on the loop points.

This should be true if you are using the wheel option.

arrowPath

Changes the arrow SVG path, like 'm7.61 0.807-2.12...'. The SVG size must be 40×40.

autoplay

Determines whether to enable autoplay or not. If 'paused', it will not begin when the slider becomes active, which means you need to provide a play button or manually start it by Autoplay#play().

interval

The autoplay interval duration in milliseconds.

pauseOnHover

Determines whether to pause autoplay on mouseover.

pauseOnFocus

Determines whether to pause autoplay while the slider contains the active element (focused element). This should be true for accessibility.

resetProgress

Determines whether to reset the autoplay progress when it is requested to start again.

lazyLoad

Enables lazy loading.

To make lazy load work, the img element in the slide must have the data-splide-lazy attribute that indicates the path or URL to the source file:

<li class="splide__slide">
  <img data-splide-lazy="path-to-the-image" alt="cat">
</li>

<!-- or -->
<li class="splide__slide">
  <img
    src="data:image/png;base64,..."
    data-splide-lazy="path-to-the-image"
    alt="cat"
  >
</li>
HTML

<li class="splide__slide">
  <img data-splide-lazy="path-to-the-image" alt="cat">
</li>


<!-- or -->
<li class="splide__slide">
  <img
    src="data:image/png;base64,..."
    data-splide-lazy="path-to-the-image"
    alt="cat"
  >
</li>

Or use data-splide-lazy-srcset for the srcset:

<li class="splide__slide">
  <img
    data-splide-lazy-srcset="600.jpg 600w, 1000.jpg 1000w"
    sizes="100vw"
    data-splide-lazy="1000.jpg"
		alt="cat"
  >
</li>
HTML

<li class="splide__slide">
  <img
    data-splide-lazy-srcset="600.jpg 600w, 1000.jpg 1000w"
    sizes="100vw"
    data-splide-lazy="1000.jpg"
		alt="cat"
  >
</li>

preloadPages

Determines how many pages (not slides) around the active slide should be loaded beforehand. This only works when the lazyLoad option is 'nearby'.

keyboard

Determines whether to enable keyboard shortcuts or not. If enabled, you can control the slider by arrow keys. This must be enabled for accessibility.

wheel

Enables navigation by the mouse wheel. The waitForTransition option should be true.

direction

The direction of the slider.

cover

Converts the image src to the css background-image URL of the parent element. This requires height, fixedHeight or heightRatio option.

slideFocus

Determines whether to add tabindex="0" to visible slides or not.

isNavigation

If true, the slider makes slides clickable to navigate another slider. Use Splide#sync() to sync multiple sliders.

trimSpace

Determines whether to trim spaces before/after the slider if the focus option is available.

By default, Splide removes edge spaces. The slider sometimes does not move with changing the active slide:

You can display spaces by setting the option to false:

If you want to remove spaces, but do not want the slider to stay on the same position, set the option to 'move':

updateOnMove

Updates the is-active status class just before moving the slider.

destroy

Destroys the slider.

mediaQuery

If min, the media query for breakpoints will be min-width, or otherwise max-width.

breakpoints

A collection of responsive options for specific breakpoints.

This example reduces the number of slides under 640px:

{
  perPage: 4,
  breakpoints: {
		640: {
			perPage: 2,
		},
  }
}
JavaScript

{
  perPage: 4,
  breakpoints: {
		640: {
			perPage: 2,
		},
  }
}

You can destroy the slider at the specific breakpoint like this:

{
  breakpoints: {
		640: {
			destroy: true,
		},
  }
}
JavaScript

{
  breakpoints: {
		640: {
			destroy: true,
		},
  }
}

classes

The collection of class names. To add your own classes to arrows or pagination buttons, provide them with original classes:

new Splide( '.splide', {
  classes: {
		// Add classes for arrows.
		arrows: 'splide__arrows your-class-arrows',
		arrow : 'splide__arrow your-class-arrow',
		prev  : 'splide__arrow--prev your-class-prev',
		next  : 'splide__arrow--next your-class-next',

		// Add classes for pagination.
		pagination: 'splide__pagination your-class-pagination', // container
		page      : 'splide__pagination__page your-class-page', // each button
  },
} ).mount();
JavaScript

new Splide( '.splide', {
  classes: {
		// Add classes for arrows.
		arrows: 'splide__arrows your-class-arrows',
		arrow : 'splide__arrow your-class-arrow',
		prev  : 'splide__arrow--prev your-class-prev',
		next  : 'splide__arrow--next your-class-next',


		// Add classes for pagination.
		pagination: 'splide__pagination your-class-pagination', // container
		page      : 'splide__pagination__page your-class-page', // each button
  },
} ).mount();

Do not remove default classes because Splide refers them for styling.

i18n

The collection of i18n strings. See this document for more details.