Prevent daisyUI carousel from scrolling when switching slides

Question

I'm using this carousel with indicator buttons from daisyUI in a Nextjs app.

As can be observed in their demo, when clicking on an indicator button, apart from switching slides the page will also scroll such that the top border of the slide is at the top of the screen.

Is there a way of using this component while preventing the scroll?

Answer 1

I think I figured this one out. The key here is to consider that the carousel is an element with a horizontal scroll. This means that one way of tackling this is to manually displace the horizontal scroll by using a Javascript function.

I don't know how this is done in Next.js, but the idea is to define a function like this:

let carouselElement = . . .; // carouselElement has to hold the HTMLElement of the carousel


function scrollCarousel(targetImageNumber) {
    let carouselWidth = carouselElement.clientWidth;

    // Images are numbered from 1 to 4 so thats why we substract 1
    let targetImage = targetImageNumber - 1;

    let targetXPixel = (carouselWidth * targetImage) + 1

    carouselElement.scrollTo(targetXPixel, 0);
}

You can then replace the <a> tags by <button> tags and add an onClick handler that performs the scroll manually on the Carousel HTML Element, like this:

<div class="flex justify-center w-full py-2 gap-2">
    <!-- You'll have to pass the number image to the function -->
    <button onClick={scrollCarousel(1)} class="btn btn-xs">1</button> 
    <button onClick={scrollCarousel(2)} class="btn btn-xs">2</button> 
    <button onClick={scrollCarousel(3)} class="btn btn-xs">3</button> 
    <button onClick={scrollCarousel(4)} class="btn btn-xs">4</button>
</div>

I built a Stackblitz example (in Svelte, sorry) with the solution here

Answer 2

I experienced the same issue but was able to work around it using element.scrollIntoView.

By default, it has the same issue as the fragment solution that OP references but if you call it with: slide2.scrollIntoView({ block: 'nearest', inline: 'center' }) it doesn't move vertically but does the smooth horizontal scroll. MDN docs

In my opinion, this is a bit simpler than the solution where you calculate x-coordinates, though you do need to get a reference to the next/previous slide element. How you do so will probably depend on what, if any, JS framework you're using.

Answer 3

CLS Cumulative Layout Shift https://web.dev/cls/

*ℹ️ Haven't tested a thing yet (finishing prioritized tasks atm, will be back for this one). Maybe the following list can bring some light or/and leads to more understanding about what's going on. In general it doesn't feel like a situation where I want to add heavy scripting, feels like there is a elegant way... (maybe it's even against the library paradigm, as we have target-selectors for sidemenu's (no scripting seem to be the approach here).

Here some first thoughts, guesses, experiences, investigations and links, and the IMO root cause why it happens..

Let's go:

1. At firsrt glance it looks like anchor jumping by id, e.g. #slide1 jumps to id="slide1"element, native anchor jumps, so preventDefault will stop everything (let's exclude that)

Assuming the root cause are unknown width and heigh of the images (we need safeNumbers, percentage and vw,vh in safeNumbers no percentages etc. would probably work, but we need percentages  

2. Check if animation targets top, right, bottom, left and if so, use: `transform: translate() instead. Just comes to mind: DaisyUI and HeadlessUI is a great fit here.  

3. Could eventually move the issue to loading time:

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

...but don't we preload images in carousels anyway? if so, then the dimensions of the image is known – unknown width/height of the image as the root cause – and useLayoutEffect() is where you an calculate and set px values before the render is painted to the screen, right?

4. Aspect Ratio Solution

good luck (will fix the typos another day ^^ when I pick up your end solution hehe)