Refusing to accept that there isn’t a native way to build a dynamic CMS slider without code

Hello :wave: First post to the group- need some to tell me if I’m insane or if this is actually possible. So I’m convinced that there is a way to build a dynamic cms slider without any code at all. My thoughts are, could you create a component inside of a collection list that has CMS override properties and couple that with a combination of an overflow hidden, an oversized wrapper that is set to not wrap AND ALSO not shrink or grow, and a trigger(s) element inside the component that tells its parent to move out of view in a certain direction and the sibling of that parent into view?


If by “dynamic” you mean CMS-driven, there are two favored approaches;

  1. Webflow Slider + Collection List + Finsweet’s CMS Slider lib

  2. Roll your own using a Collection List + SwiperJS.

You may find other solutions here too, searching the forum.

Note, please don’t do duplicate posts. I’ve flagged the other one but best if you just delete it.

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Welcome @lowercasedj :wave:

Give this a look: Free Webflow CMS Sliders powered by Swiper JS | Flow Ninja

Both of those solutions still require code snippets to be used. I’m saying that I’m sure there is a no-code, native to Webflow way of accomplishing this.

@memetican
Sorry for the double-post. Now will you please refrain from replying in such an unwelcoming fashion to new members of this community who are posting for the first time?

Thanks @ChrisDrit :blush::v:

Finsweet’s is no code, have a look at the docs.

Swiper JS is much more powerful, and has a copy-paste init code block. I wouldn’t count that as “code” per-say, as you do not need to do any programming.

Thank you for removing it. Your post was not unwelcome- simply called out a problem you might not have been aware of.

To your overall question-

If you are attempting to create a “CMS bound slider” with zero code, zero libraries, zero third party tools, then you cannot build a complete solution. The closest you can get is to drop collection lists into your individual slides, constrained to a single item at a time.

That approach lets you display CMS bound content inside of your slides, but it is not a CMS-bound slider. The biggest limitation is that you cannot add or remove slides.

Keep an eye on the new Webflow apps capabilities, someone may well try to build a more integrated CMS slider solution if there’s any value in it.

TBH I think you could hypothetically do this with Webflow interactions, but it would likely be so unreliable and hard to set up that, even if you have ZERO code knowledge, you’d be better off just using Swiper.js

I can vouch for both the finsweet and swiper options - and agree that swiper is more powerful while finsweet is easier!