Carousel with autoplay plugin
For AI Agents
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Best for: Square photos that advance by themselves every 2 seconds through the Autoplay plugin, arrows kept
When to use
- Photo galleries and featured slides shown one at a time, moved by swipe, arrow buttons or a timer
- Rows or columns of cards with several in view, sized per breakpoint or peeking at the next one
- Media viewers where a thumbnail strip or a row of dots tracks the current slide and jumps to any one
When not to use
- Slides that move only when the viewer swipes or presses an arrow: use the Carousel Basic example
- A rotating set of customer testimonials with star ratings and avatars: use the Review blocks
- A shop page pairing a photo gallery with a buy box and size and color pickers: use the Product Detail blocks
- A storefront section of shop collections with hover browse buttons: use the Category Card blocks
Agent notes
Autoplaysets onlydelay: it has no pause control, wraps to slide 1 after the last, and stops for good once a slide is pressed- Every slide is a
picsum.photosplaceholder built withArray.from; map your own images and alt text from a real array - Where
CarouselPreviousandCarouselNextare placed, they sit 3rem outside the slides at either end, so leave room or move them throughclassName Carouselreacts only toArrowLeftandArrowRight, vertical ones included, and only while focus sits on a control inside it
Third-party API docs
- Embla Carousel Autoplay v8: API reference, docs
- Embla Carousel v8: API reference, docs, through shadcn Carousel
https://reui.io/components/carousel/c-carousel-5.mdget_example("c-carousel-5")npx shadcn@latest add @reui/c-carousel-5About Shadcn Carousel Autoplay
Carousel with autoplay plugin. Built by composing Card, Carousel. Uses embla-carousel-autoplay alongside the shadcn primitives. A free, open source shadcn carousel example you can install with npx shadcn@latest add @reui/c-carousel-5 and edit as your own code.
What You Can Build With Shadcn Carousel Autoplay
- Composes Card, Carousel, so it drops into any project already using those components.
- Install it with the shadcn CLI: npx shadcn@latest add @reui/c-carousel-5
- Open source and free, with the full source on this page to copy or adapt.
More Shadcn Carousel Examples
- Basic Basic carousel with single item
- Vertical Vertical carousel orientation
- Multiple Items Carousel with multiple items visible
- Responsive Basis Carousel with responsive basis
- Centered Alignment Carousel with centered slide alignment
- Custom Spacing Carousel with custom spacing
- Image Overlays Carousel with images and overlays
- Thumbnail Strip Carousel with thumbnail navigation
- Overlay Thumbnails Carousel with overlay thumbnail navigation
- Dots Navigation Carousel with dots navigation and content overlays
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Frequently Asked Questions
When should I use Shadcn Carousel Autoplay?
Use it for square photos that advance by themselves every 2 seconds through the Autoplay plugin, arrows kept.
Shadcn Carousel as a whole fits:
- Photo galleries and featured slides shown one at a time, moved by swipe, arrow buttons or a timer
- Rows or columns of cards with several in view, sized per breakpoint or peeking at the next one
- Media viewers where a thumbnail strip or a row of dots tracks the current slide and jumps to any one
For slides that move only when the viewer swipes or presses an arrow, use the Carousel Basic example. For a rotating set of customer testimonials with star ratings and avatars, use the Review blocks. For a shop page pairing a photo gallery with a buy box and size and color pickers, use the Product Detail blocks. For a storefront section of shop collections with hover browse buttons, use the Category Card blocks.
How do I install Shadcn Carousel Autoplay?
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