Cant center my images in Jquery Cycle Slideshow

Question

I have this problem and I can't find a solution anywhere at all....

I have 3 divs inside 1 div and those 3 divs each have 3 images and they all go side by side. I used jQuery cycle to make 3 slideshows. That works perfectly. Some of the images need to be centered as you can see here

http://jsfiddle.net/rBaWG/19/

or

http://www.willruppelglass.com/index.php

I have tried everything, but it appears jQuery cycle is adjusting my css code to center these images, does anyone know how to fix this?

Answer 1

I have tried and tested this and it works as required:

HTML:

<div class="contentImages">
    <div class="pics">
        <div class="cc"><img src="http://www.willruppelglass.com/upload/home1.jpg" height="200"/></div>
        <div class="cc"><img src="http://www.willruppelglass.com/upload/home2.jpg" height="200"/></div>
        <div class="cc"><img src="http://www.willruppelglass.com/upload/home3.jpg" height="200"/></div>
    </div>
    <div class="pics2">
        <div class="cc"><img src="http://www.willruppelglass.com/upload/home5.jpg" width="225"/></div>
        <div class="cc"><img src="http://www.willruppelglass.com/upload/home4.jpg" height="200"/></div>
        <div class="cc"><img src="http://www.willruppelglass.com/upload/home6.jpg" height="200"/></div>
    </div>
    <div class="pics3">
        <div class="cc"><img src="http://www.willruppelglass.com/upload/home7.jpg" height="200"/></div>
        <div class="cc"><img src="http://www.willruppelglass.com/upload/home8.jpg" height="200"/></div>
        <div class="cc"><img src="http://www.willruppelglass.com/upload/home9.jpg" height="200"/></div>
    </div>
</div>

CSS Addition:

.cc img{
    margin: auto;
}
.cc{
    text-align:center;
    width:225px !important;
    overflow:hidden;
}

Answer 2

The code behind center the images on the image div:

$('.pics').cycle({
    fx: 'fade',
    timeout:5000,
    random: 1,
    height: 200,
    width: 225,
    center: true
});

$('.pics2').cycle({
    fx: 'fade',
    timeout: 8000,
    random: 1,
    height: 200,
    width: 225,
    center: true
});

$('.pics3').cycle({
    fx: 'fade',
    timeout: 6000,
    random: 1,
    height: 200,
    width: 225,
    center: true
});

Answer 3

Here's how I would do it, add a margin to the images with some jQuery magic, and make sure the containers are always the same size as the largest image by using the containerResize option in Cycle, like so:

$('img').each(function() {
    var left = ($(this).parent().width() / 2) - ($(this).width() / 2);
    var top = ($(this).parent().height() / 2) - ($(this).height() / 2);
    $(this).css({marginLeft: left, marginTop: top});
});

$('.pics').cycle({
    fx: 'fade',
    timeout:5000,
    containerResize: 1,
    nowrap: 0,
    random: 1,
});

$('.pics2').cycle({
    fx: 'fade',
    timeout: 8000,
    containerResize: 1,
    nowrap: 0,
    random: 1
});

$('.pics3').cycle({
    fx: 'fade',
    timeout: 6000,
    containerResize: 1,
    nowrap: 0,
    random: 1
});

Here's a DEMONSTRATION !

or a VERTICAL DEMO !

Answer 4

I used a small plugin of mine:

jsFiddle demo

I changed a bit your CSS, wrapping each image (via jQuery) into <span> elements.
Doing that I could center your images both vertically and horizontally using line-height and some trickery you can find in my CSS:

.contentImages{
    border:1px solid #CCC;
    padding:10px;
    margin:20px auto 0;
    position:relative;
    width: 675px;
    height:200px; /* added */
    overflow:hidden;
    background:#fff;
}
.pics{  
    position:relative; /* added */
    display:block; /* added */
    float:left; /* added */
    width:225px;
    height:180px;
}
.pics img {
    position:relative;
    vertical-align:middle;
    background-color: #eee;
    max-width:100%;
}
.pics span{    /* created by jQuery */
    cursor:pointer;  /* yes, I made your images swappable */
    position:absolute;
    margin-left:0px;
    height:200px;
    width:225px;
    text-align:center;
    background:#444;
    line-height:196px;
}

HTML: all your parent elements now have the common class pics to simplify the CSS

<div class="pics pics1">

Here is my jQuery plugin (fadeMe!):

/*FadeMe 'FPS'//jQuery_plugin//Author:Roko C.Buljan (2012)// www.roxon.in*/(function($){$.fn.fademe = function(F,P,S){F=F||700;S=S-1||0;P=P||3000;var E=this.children(),T;function a(){E.siblings(E).stop().fadeTo(F,0).eq(S=++S%E.length).stop().fadeTo(F,1);}E.on('mouseenter mouseleave click',function(e){var m=e.type==='mouseenter'?clearTimeout(T):(e.type==='click'?a():aa());}).hide().eq(S).show();function aa(){T=setTimeout(function(){a();aa();},F+P);}aa();};})(jQuery);

$('.pics img').each(function(){ // just added to wrap your images into spans.
  $(this).wrap('<span />');
});

$('.pics1').fademe(1360,3500,2); //fadeTime,pause,StartSlideN
$('.pics2').fademe(1300);        //fadeTime
$('.pics3').fademe(1240,3920);   //fadeTime,pause

That's all. And this plugin allows you to:

• Stop hovered slide on HOVER
• Click to advance
• Customize fade time, pause, and start slide N

The default settings are:
1.Fade time = 700, Pause = 3000, Start slide = 1;

You can find more info on my page HERE

Answer 5

It might be better to cycle some divs and center the images in the divs..

http://jsfiddle.net/lucuma/wHLJD/

Answer 6

Give this a shot:

.pics {  
    padding: 0;  
    margin: 0 auto; /* CHANGE HERE */
    width: 225px;
    height: 200px;
} 

.pics img {    
    background-color: #eee;
    /* Removed top and left */
}

.contentImages {
    text-align: center; /* Add */
    border: 1px solid #CCC; 
    padding: 10px; 
    margin: 20px auto 0; 
    position: relative;
    width: 675px;
    overflow: hidden;
}

Working jsFiddle for horizontally centered images, at least in Chrome. Question: Do you want the three images to be side by side or on top of each other?

If you want them side by side, you will have to remove the width from the .pics class in the above CSS.