jQuery image sliders and their images

Question

I'm new to jQuery and image sliders. Is it best practice to make the images that I want to slide the same size as the slider container that holds them?

Answer 1

It's not about best practice, it depends on your needs,
but creating a slider (novice) in javascript/jQuery it's most easier to have it same width,

• you can much easily control the sliding parent position...
• you don't need to do CSS trickery to maintain your images centered...
• you don't need to do javascript calculations about the sliding space left...
• one day you can replace your images with DIV elements that will hold more data...

example gallery

Answer 2

@Roko already explained everything you need to know. On my behalf, I just want to share with you this link: Learn jQuery in 30 days. This course helped me a lot with mastering jQuery and it contains an example of slider with guide by great jQuery ninja - Jeffrey Way. I strongly recommend you to look at it and surely this time will not be wasted. Have fun!