Carousel Ad

Summary

Sample AMPHTML ad using amp-carousel to create an interactive ad.

Styling

This is an advanced example that requires some styling to make it look and function properly.

<style amp-custom>
  .root-container {
    font-family: 'Roboto', sans-serif;
    font-size: 12px;
    line-height: 18px;
    overflow: hidden;
    background: #6a594b;
    color: #ffffff;
    width: 100%;
    height: 100vh;
    position: relative;
    display: flex;
    flex-direction: column;
  }
  .main-container {
    flex: 1;
    display: flex;
    justify-content: flex-end;
    flex-direction: column;
  }
  .footer {
    background: #000000;
    color: #ffffff;
    padding: 8px;
    text-transform: uppercase;
    display: flex;
    align-items: center;
  }
  .footer-logo {
    border-right: 1px solid #ffffff;
    padding: 0 8px 0 0;
    margin: 0 8px 0 0;
  }
  .bg-img {
    position: absolute;
    left: 0;
    top: 0;
    right: 0;
  }
  .logo-img {
    display: block;
  }
  .stretch {
    flex: 1;
  }
  .button {
    cursor: pointer;
    text-decoration: none;
    text-transform: uppercase;
    padding: 6px 10px;
    color: #ffffff;
    display: inline-block;
    background-color: #2979ff;
  }
  .carousel-item {
    width: 184px;
    height: 105px;
    padding: 12px 2px;
    color: #000000;
    position: relative;
  }
  .carousel-item:first-child {
    padding-left: 12px;
  }
  .carousel-item:last-child {
    padding-right: 12px;
  }
  .carousel {
    width: 100%;
    position: absolute;
  }
  .carousel-item-inner {
    width: 180px;
    height: 105px;
    padding: 2px;
    background: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.5);
    border-radius: 4px;
    position: relative;
  }
  .carousel-img {
    display: block;
    border: 2px solid #ffffff;
    border-radius: 2px;
  }
  .carousel-button-container {
    position: absolute;
    left: 0;
    right: 0;
    bottom: 0;
    padding: 10px;
    text-align: center;
  }
  .learn-more a {
    padding: 8px 0;
    text-transform: uppercase;
    display: inline-block;
    color: #2979ff;
    text-decoration: none;
    font-weight: bold;
  }
</style>

Carousel

We use the amp-carousel to display multiple pieces of content along a horizontal axis.

All elements with the carousel-item class-name have essentially the same markup: one container that activates the lightbox, an image, and a button.

AMP has a system in place for events and actions. It uses a domain-specific language to describe how actions are triggered. In this example, we set the on attribute so the lightbox will activate when a carousel item is tapped. Each button will also toggle the visibility of specific items in the lightbox (see show and hide).

<amp-carousel
    height="132"
    layout="fixed-height"
    type="carousel"
    class="carousel">
  <div class="carousel-item">
    <div class="carousel-item-inner">
      <amp-img src="/static/samples/img/car-engine.jpg"
          width="177"
          height="100"
          layout="fixed"
          class="carousel-img"></amp-img>
      <div class="carousel-button-container">
        <a href="https://amp.dev/documentation/examples/" target="_blank" class="button carousel-button">
          6C Tuned Engine
        </a>
      </div>
    </div>
  </div>
  <div class="carousel-item">
    <div class="carousel-item-inner">
      <amp-img src="/static/samples/img/car-gauges.jpg"
          width="177"
          height="100"
          layout="fixed"
          class="carousel-img"></amp-img>
      <div class="carousel-button-container">
        <a href="https://amp.dev/documentation/examples/" target="_blank" class="button carousel-button">
          Sport Gauge Cluster
        </a>
      </div>
    </div>
  </div>
  <div class="carousel-item">
    <div class="carousel-item-inner">
      <amp-img src="/static/samples/img/car-seats.jpg"
          width="177"
          height="100"
          layout="fixed"
          class="carousel-img"></amp-img>
      <div class="carousel-button-container">
        <a href="https://amp.dev/documentation/examples/" target="_blank" class="button carousel-button">
          Luxury Seats
        </a>
      </div>
    </div>
  </div>
</amp-carousel>
</div>

<div class="footer">
<div class="footer-logo">
  <amp-img src="/static/samples/img/car-logo.png"
      width="72"
      height="32"
      layout="fixed"
      alt="Howdy"
      class="logo-img"></amp-img>
</div>
<div class="stretch">The All-New WX-S R5</div>
<a href="https://amp.dev/documentation/examples/" target="_blank" class="button">
  Learn more
</a>
</div>
</div>

Need further explanation?

If the explanations on this page don't cover all of your questions feel free to reach out to other AMP users to discuss your exact use case.

Go to Stack Overflow

An unexplained feature?

The AMP project strongly encourages your participation and contributions! We hope you'll become an ongoing participant in our open source community but we also welcome one-off contributions for the issues you're particularly passionate about.

Edit sample on GitHub

Written by @zhouyx