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Posted on Jan 11, 2019
How To Build A Captivating Presentation Using HTML, CSS, & JavaScript
Building beautiful presentations is hard. Often you're stuck with Keynote or PowerPoint, and the templates are extremely limited and generic. Well not anymore.
Today, we're going to learn how to create a stunning and animated presentation using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
If you're a beginner to web development, don't fret! This tutorial will be easy enough to keep up with. So let's slide right into it!
We're going to be using an awesome framework called Reveal.js . It provides robust functionality for creating interesting and customizable presentations.
- Head over to the Reveal.js repository and clone the project (you can also fork this to your GitHub namespace).
- Change directories into your newly cloned folder and run npm install to download the package dependencies. Then run npm start to run the project.
The index.html file holds all of the markup for the slides. This is one of the downsides of using Reveal.js; all of the content will be placed inside this HTML file.
Built-In Themes
Reveal includes 11 built-in themes for you to choose from:
Changing The Theme
- Open index.html
- Change the CSS import to reflect the theme you want to use
The theme files are:
- solarized.css
Custom Themes
It's quite easy to create a custom theme. Today, I'll be using my custom theme from a presentation I gave called "How To Build Kick-Ass Website: An Introduction To Front-end Development."
Here is what my custom slides look like:
Creating A Custom Theme
- Open css/theme/src inside your IDE. This holds all of the Sass files ( .scss ) for each theme. These files will be transpiled to CSS using Grunt (a JavaScript task runner). If you prefer to write CSS, go ahead and just create the CSS file inside css/theme.
- Create a new .scss file. I will call mine custom.scss . You may have to stop your localhost and run npm run build to transpile your Sass code to CSS.
- Inside the index.html file, change the CSS theme import in the <head> tag to use the name of the newly created stylesheet. The extension will be .css , not .scss .
- Next, I created variables for all of the different styles I wanted to use. You can find custom fonts on Google Fonts. Once the font is downloaded, be sure to add the font URL's into the index.html file.
Here are the variables I chose to use:
- Title Font: Viga
- Content Font: Open Sans
- Code Font: Courier New
- Cursive Font: Great Vibes
- Yellow Color: #F9DC24
- Add a .reveal class to the custom Sass file. This will wrap all of the styles to ensure our custom theme overrides any defaults. Then, add your custom styling!
Unfortunately, due to time constraints, I'll admit that I used quite a bit of !important overrides in my CSS. This is horrible practice and I don't recommend it. The reveal.css file has extremely specific CSS styles, so I should have, if I had more time, gone back and ensured my class names were more specific so I could remove the !importants .
Mixins & Settings
Reveal.js also comes with mixins and settings you can leverage in your custom theme.
To use the mixins and settings, just import the files into your custom theme:
Mixins You can use the vertical-gradient, horizontal-gradient, or radial-gradient mixins to create a neat visual effect.
All you have to do is pass in the required parameters (color value) and voila, you've got a gradient!
Settings In the settings file, you'll find useful variables like heading sizes, default fonts and colors, and more!
The structure for adding new content is:
.reveal > .slides > section
The <section> element represents one slide. Add as many sections as you need for your content.
Vertical Slides
To create vertical slides, simply nest sections.
Transitions
There are several different slide transitions for you to choose from:
To use them, add a data-transition="{name}" to the <section> which contains your slide data.
Fragments are great for highlighting specific pieces of information on your slide. Here is an example.
To use fragments, add a class="fragment {type-of-fragment}" to your element.
The types of fragments can be:
- fade-in-then-out
- fade-in-then-semi-out
- highlight-current-blue
- highlight-red
- highlight-green
- highlight-blue
You can additionally add indices to your elements to indicate in which order they should be highlighted or displayed. You can denote this using the data-fragment-index={index} attribute.
There are way more features to reveal.js which you can leverage to build a beautiful presentation, but these are the main things which got me started.
To learn more about how to format your slides, check out the reveal.js tutorial . All of the code for my presentation can be viewed on GitHub. Feel free to steal my theme!
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I really love reveal.js. I haven't spoken in a while so I haven't used it. I've always used their themes and never thought about making my own. This is probably super useful for company presentations, too. I'm SO over google slides. Trying to format code in those is a nightmare LOL
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Yeah it is time consuming, but the result is much better
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The best thing in this - and now I'm not being ironic - is that while you work on a not so much technical task - creating a presentation - you still have to code. And the result is nice.
On the other hand, I know what my presentation skills teachers would say. Well, because they said it... :) If you really want to deliver a captivating presentation, don't use slides at all. Use the time to prepare what you want to say.
I'm not that good - yet, but taking their advice, if must I use few slides, with little information on them and with minimal graphical distractions. My goal is to impress them by what I say, not is what behind my head.
I'm going to a new training soon, where the first day we have to deliver a presentation supported by slides at a big auditorium and the next day we have to go back and forget about the slides and just get on stage and speak. I can't wait for it.
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How about github.com/team-fluxion/slide-gazer ?
It's my fourth attempt at creating a simple presentation tool to help one present ideas quickly without having to spend time within a presentation editor like Microsoft PowerPoint. It directly converts markdown documents into elegant presentations with a few features and is still under development.
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- Joined Jan 15, 2019
Yup, RevealJS is awesome !
Previously I either used PPT or Google Slides. One is a paid license and the other requires an internet connection.
The cool thing about it is that since it's just HTML files behind the scenes, the only software you need to view it with is a web browser. Has amazing syntax-highlighting support via PrismJS. And as a web developer, it makes it simple to integrate other npm packages if need be...
I actually just used it to present a talk this week!
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Great article, Emma! I love Reveal and this is a great write up for using it!
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I think its a coincidence 😅 I was just starting to think to use reveal.js and suddenly you see this post 🤩
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Check out slides.com If you want to skip the heavy lifting and/or use a presentation platform based on reveal.js.
Everything is still easy to customize. The platform provides a UI to work from and an easy way to share your stuff.
BTW - I have no affiliation with slides.com, or even a current account. I used the service a few years back when I regularly presented and wanted to get over PowerPoint, Google Slides, Prezi, etc.
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Well I guess you get to look ultra pro by skipping the moment where you have to adjust for display detection and make sure your notes don’t show because you plugged your display connector in 😩 But If the conference has no wifi then we’re screwed I guess
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I like Reveal, but I still have not moved past using Google docs slides because every presentation I do has to be done yesterday. Hoping that I can use Reveal more often this year as I get more time to work on each presentation.
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Well this is nice and I haven't tried it maybe because I haven't spoken much in meet ups but I think PowerPoint is still much better than going all these steps and what if I have network connection issues that day then I'm scrolled right?
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Using Node and Soket.io remote control (meant to be used on phones) for my school's computer science club, it also features some more goodies which are helpful when having multiple presentations. It can be modded to use these styling techniques effortlessly. Feel free to fork!
SBCompSciClub / prez-software
A synchronized role based presentation software using node, prez-software.
TODO: Make system to easily manage multiple presentations Add Hash endocing and decoding for "sudo" key values TODO: Document Code
Run on Dev Server
npm i nodemon app.js Nodemon? - A life saving NPM module that is ran on a system level which automatically runs "node (file.js)" when files are modified. Download nodemon by running npm i -g nodemon
Making a Presentation
- Copy an existing presentation folder
- Change the folder name (which should be located at public/slides) with the name day[num of day] ex(day2)
Making a Slide
Making a slide is pretty simple. Just add a HTML section. <section> <!--slide content--> </section> inside the span with the class of "prez-root". Also keep in mind that you will need to copy and pate the markup inside the prez root to the other pages (viewer & controller).
Adding Text
You may add text however you desire, but for titles use the…
Awesome post! I’m glad I’m not the only one who likes libraries. 😎
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Fantastic post. I just loved it.
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Awesome introduction! I feel like I need to give this a try the next time I create a presentation.
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HTML Presentations Made Easy
Created by Hakim El Hattab / @hakimel
reveal.js is a framework for easily creating beautiful presentations using HTML. You'll need a browser with support for CSS 3D transforms to see it in its full glory.
Vertical Slides
Slides can be nested inside of other slides, try pressing down .
Basement Level 1
Press down or up to navigate.
Basement Level 2
Basement level 3.
That's it, time to go back up.
Not a coder? No problem. There's a fully-featured visual editor for authoring these, try it out at http://slid.es .
Point of View
Press ESC to enter the slide overview.
Hold down alt and click on any element to zoom in on it using zoom.js . Alt + click anywhere to zoom back out.
Works in Mobile Safari
Try it out! You can swipe through the slides and pinch your way to the overview.
Marvelous Unordered List
- No order here
Fantastic Ordered List
- One is smaller than...
- Two is smaller than...
Transition Styles
You can select from different transitions, like: Cube - Page - Concave - Zoom - Linear - Fade - None - Default
Reveal.js comes with a few themes built in: Default - Sky - Beige - Simple - Serif - Night Moon - Solarized
* Theme demos are loaded after the presentation which leads to flicker. In production you should load your theme in the <head> using a <link> .
Global State
Set data-state="something" on a slide and "something" will be added as a class to the document element when the slide is open. This lets you apply broader style changes, like switching the background.
Custom Events
Additionally custom events can be triggered on a per slide basis by binding to the data-state name.
Slide Backgrounds
Set data-background="#007777" on a slide to change the full page background to the given color. All CSS color formats are supported.
Image Backgrounds
Repeated image backgrounds, background transitions.
Pass reveal.js the backgroundTransition: 'slide' config argument to make backgrounds slide rather than fade.
Background Transition Override
You can override background transitions per slide by using data-background-transition="slide" .
Clever Quotes
These guys come in two forms, inline: “The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from” and block:
“For years there has been a theory that millions of monkeys typing at random on millions of typewriters would reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. The Internet has proven this theory to be untrue.”
Pretty Code
Courtesy of highlight.js .
Intergalactic Interconnections
You can link between slides internally, like this .
Fragmented Views
Hit the next arrow...
... to step through ...
Fragment Styles
There's a few styles of fragments, like:
highlight-red
highlight-green
highlight-blue
current-visible
highlight-current-blue
Spectacular image!
Export to pdf.
Presentations can be exported to PDF , below is an example that's been uploaded to SlideShare.
Take a Moment
Press b or period on your keyboard to enter the 'paused' mode. This mode is helpful when you want to take distracting slides off the screen during a presentation.
Stellar Links
- Try the online editor
- Source code on GitHub
- Follow me on Twitter
BY Hakim El Hattab / hakim.se
The HTML Presentation Framework
Created by Hakim El Hattab and contributors
Hello There
reveal.js enables you to create beautiful interactive slide decks using HTML. This presentation will show you examples of what it can do.
Vertical Slides
Slides can be nested inside of each other.
Use the Space key to navigate through all slides.
Basement Level 1
Nested slides are useful for adding additional detail underneath a high level horizontal slide.
Basement Level 2
That's it, time to go back up.
Not a coder? Not a problem. There's a fully-featured visual editor for authoring these, try it out at https://slides.com .
Pretty Code
Code syntax highlighting courtesy of highlight.js .
Even Prettier Animations
Point of view.
Press ESC to enter the slide overview.
Hold down the alt key ( ctrl in Linux) and click on any element to zoom towards it using zoom.js . Click again to zoom back out.
(NOTE: Use ctrl + click in Linux.)
Auto-Animate
Automatically animate matching elements across slides with Auto-Animate .
Touch Optimized
Presentations look great on touch devices, like mobile phones and tablets. Simply swipe through your slides.
Add the r-fit-text class to auto-size text
Hit the next arrow...
... to step through ...
... a fragmented slide.
Fragment Styles
There's different types of fragments, like:
fade-right, up, down, left
fade-in-then-out
fade-in-then-semi-out
Highlight red blue green
Transition Styles
You can select from different transitions, like: None - Fade - Slide - Convex - Concave - Zoom
Slide Backgrounds
Set data-background="#dddddd" on a slide to change the background color. All CSS color formats are supported.
Image Backgrounds
Tiled backgrounds, video backgrounds, ... and gifs, background transitions.
Different background transitions are available via the backgroundTransition option. This one's called "zoom".
You can override background transitions per-slide.
Iframe Backgrounds
Since reveal.js runs on the web, you can easily embed other web content. Try interacting with the page in the background.
Marvelous List
- No order here
Fantastic Ordered List
- One is smaller than...
- Two is smaller than...
Tabular Tables
Clever quotes.
These guys come in two forms, inline: The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from and block:
“For years there has been a theory that millions of monkeys typing at random on millions of typewriters would reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. The Internet has proven this theory to be untrue.”
Intergalactic Interconnections
You can link between slides internally, like this .
Speaker View
There's a speaker view . It includes a timer, preview of the upcoming slide as well as your speaker notes.
Press the S key to try it out.
Export to PDF
Presentations can be exported to PDF , here's an example:
Global State
Set data-state="something" on a slide and "something" will be added as a class to the document element when the slide is open. This lets you apply broader style changes, like switching the page background.
State Events
Additionally custom events can be triggered on a per slide basis by binding to the data-state name.
Take a Moment
Press B or . on your keyboard to pause the presentation. This is helpful when you're on stage and want to take distracting slides off the screen.
- Right-to-left support
- Extensive JavaScript API
- Auto-progression
- Parallax backgrounds
- Custom keyboard bindings
- Try the online editor - Source code & documentation
Build and Publish a Presentation with RevealJS and Github
If you've ever given a presentation at a conference, meetup, or even a lunch and learn for your colleagues at work, you probably needed some slides to go along with your talk. The standard tools to make these are Microsoft PowerPoint, Apple Keynote, or Google Slides. These will get the job done, with PowerPoint and Keynote being more feature rich than the free Google Slides.
However, if you're a web developer, there is another option. RevealJS is a JavaScript framework that allows you to leverage your HTML, CSS, and JavaScript skills to build beautiful and polished presentations. Some benefits this has over the standard software packages include being able to use version control (since the presentation is just html, css, and js files rather than a proprietary binary format), collaborate with others, and the sheer joy of using your favorite web technologies and text editor.
This post will walk you through how to get started with RevealJS, build a simple presentation, and publish it to Github Pages so you can share it with the world. If you want a quick "reveal" so to speak, here is the sample presentation we're going to be building and the source .
Getting Started
The build tooling for RevealJS uses Node.js so make sure you have that installed. I like to be on the latest LTS version.
Start by cloning the RevealJS repo from Github, installing the dependencies, then run the dev server:
At this point, you should be able to navigate to http://0.0.0.0:8000 and view the simple presentation that comes with the repo. Use the left/right arrow keys to navigate back and forth, or click on the caret icons displayed on the bottom of the slide. As you navigate the slides, notice the url changes, eg: http://0.0.0.0:8000/#/1 and a blue progress bar animates across the bottom of the page. All these features are configurable as we'll learn later.
Now we're ready to start building the presentation.
Open the demo-presentation project (or whatever you called it in the Getting Started step earlier) in your editor of choice. I'll be using VS Code.
Open the file index.html - this is where you'll be making the majority of changes. The entire presentation is contained in a div with a class of slides , which is contained in another div with a class of reveal . Each <section>content...</section> element denotes a slide.
Right now it looks as follows:
Delete the two <section> elements that came with the repo, and replace them with some content as shown below:
As soon as you save the changes, the presentation should refresh in the browser. The auto-refresh feature is provided by the development server that comes with the project. At this point, there are still two slides but the content has changed. Notice the default styles that get applied for <h1> , <h2> , and <p> elements. Don't worry if you don't exactly like these styles, everything's customizable.
Also notice how everything is centered and pleasing to look at. Try resizing the browser window or use Device Mode in Chrome devtools. Mobile/responsive design is already built into the presentation styles, nice!
Vertical Slides
Generally a presentation progresses linearly from left to right across each slide. But sometimes, the content needs to go off on a tangent, say to explain some point in more detail before moving on with the rest of the presentation. Vertical slides are a great way to organize this type of content. To try this out, nest a <section> element inside another element like this:
Save the changes, then navigate to the third slide in the presentation. Notice there's now a down caret in addition to the left pointing caret. Click it (or press the down arrow), the slides will now start to transition according to the nested <section> elements. This only works one level deep, do not try to nest any deeper. At any point the usual left/right key or arrow navigation still works to move to the previous or next slides.
With a lot of vertical slides, it can be useful to jump out and get a bird's eye view of the entire presentation. To do this, press the o key from any slide. It should look something like this:
Press the esc key to return to regular slide mode.
To add images to the presentation, make an images directory in the project root and place any image(s) you'd like in this directory. Then simply use the standard html <img> tag to display the image centered in the slide, don't forget the alt tag:
Note: The framework is not opinionated about where the images are placed so feel free to name this directory anything you like or even to place the images in project root if there's not too many of them.
Of course you can also simply link to an image from the internet, for example:
Full Screen Background
By default, all the slide content is contained within a portion of the screen to fit any display and scale. But if you want to break outside of this container to use up the entire background, this can be done with the data-background attribute on any <section> element.
For example, to have an animated gif take up the entire slide:
Animate in Visibility
Fragments are used to animate content in a slide, one element at a time. This is useful when you don't want all the content to show up at once. A classic example is a bullet point list where you want to talk to each point one at a time. To add visibility animation to any element, simply add class="fragment" .
For example:
Use the left/right arrow keys to have the elements animate in, or click on the caret icon at the bottom of the presentation.
By default, fragments will animate in the same order that they appear in the DOM. The order can be controlled by adding data-fragment-index to any element that has a class="fragment" . For example, to display a list in reverse order:
The default animation is for elements to fade in. But there are a number of other animations available such as fade up, down, left, right, changing color etc. To use these other effects, add the appropriate class to the fragment. For example:
The RevealJS docs list all the possible fragment animation classes .
The framework comes with a lot of built in styles for headers, paragraphs, lists etc. It's possible to customize any of these by adding the data-state attribute to any <section> element.
The data-state attribute causes the value, in this example my-style to be added as a class on the <body> element. This allows for overriding of the framework styles by using a selector such as .my-style p .
One thing I couldn't find in the docs was where to place custom styles. The quickest way for now is to add a file in the dist dir such as dist/custom.css and then add a link to it in the <head> section of index.html , after all the framework css is loaded:
Now edit custom.css - adding a class for the value in data-state , for example, to make the paragraph text bright pink and pop out:
Speaker Notes
One really helpful feature when giving a talk is the ability to have speaker notes displayed in a separate window from the presentation. RevealJS makes it easy to add these. Add an <aside class="notes"> element anywhere in a <section> element (i.e. slide), then that content will not be displayed in the slide, for example:
From the browser where the presentation is being displayed, press s to reveal the speaker notes in a new browser window. This window also conveniently has a timer, and displays the current and upcoming slide to help keep you on track. It looks something like this:
By now you'll have noticed there's some common styling applied to all the slides such as a black background and blocky white text. These styles come from the black theme stylesheet that is referenced in the head section of index.html :
This can be changed to any of the built-in themes RevealJS comes with, which are listed in the dist/theme directory. To change, simply swap out black.css for any other theme, for example, I like moon theme, which has a dark blue background and thick grey text:
Here's one of the slides from our presentation now with moon theme applied:
It's also possible to create a custom theme .
Slide Transitions
Up until now, we've been dealing with the HTML and CSS. But to further customize the presentation, there's a <script> section at the bottom of index.html where the framework gets initialized. Here you can control many features of how the presentation will behave. For example, by default, the slides transition with a slide animation going from right to left. This can be changed by specifying the transition property of the object passed to the Reveal.initialize function.
For example, to use a convex transition:
Further Customization
Besides slide transitions, many more features of the framework can be controlled through configuration. Just to list a few examples:
Read about all the configuration options in the RevealJS docs.
Publish to Github Pages
It's time to share our presentation with the world. To do this, we'll use Github Pages , which is free static web site hosting provided by Github. In order to do this, we need to create a new git repository with a branch named gh-pages , then create a corresponding repository on Github, and push the project files to this branch.
Start in a terminal at the project root and run the following commands:
Now login to your Github account and create a new repository. At the time of this writing, the new repo menu button is located at the top right of the Github landing page, given that you're logged in:
Make the repository name the same as your project. For example, mine will is demo-presentation . Optionally add a description. Make sure Public option is checked. Leave all the other checkboxes blank because we're going to be pushing up the project files in the next step:
Now, Github will display a page with instructions for how to push your code up, normally you could just copy paste this, but that will create a default main branch. This case is a little different because we want gh-pages branch for static hosting. Run the following replacing yourGithubUserName and your-repo-name :
After the push has completed, go back to Github in your browser and refresh the project page. The code you just pushed should be displayed.
And now, to finally see your presentation published on the web, click on Settings from your repository page:
Then scroll down to the "GitHub Pages" section. It should show something like the following:
Go ahead and click on the "Your site is published at" link. The presentation is now publicly available at that url, which in general will look like https://yourGithubUserName.github.io/your-repo-name/ .
Of course you're not limited to Github Pages for deployment. Since the project is just html, css, and javascript, it can be deployed to any static web site host.
This post has just barely scratched the surface of all the features that RevealJS provides. Checkout the documentation to learn more about it. There's also a rich ecosystem of plugins in case you need some behavior that's not provided by the framework. I hope you'll give this a try next time you're giving a talk and good luck with your presentation!
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Frequently asked questions (faqs) about html5 presentation systems.
I have a lot of respect for Microsoft PowerPoint. It may be over-used and encourages people to create shocking slide shows, but it’s powerful and fun. I have just one criticism: all PowerPoint presentations look the same. It doesn’t matter how you change the colors, backgrounds, fonts or transitions — everyone can spot a PPT from a mile away. Fortunately, we now have another option: HTML5. Or, more specifically, HTML5 templates powered by JavaScript with CSS3 2D/3D transitions and animations. The benefits include:
- it’s quicker to add a few HTML tags than use a WYSIWYG interface
- you can update a presentation using a basic text editor on any device
- files can be hosted on the web; you need never lose a PPT again
- you can easily distribute a presentation without viewing software
- it’s not PowerPoint and your audience will be amazed by your technical prowess.
- you require web coding skills
- positioning, effects and transitions are more limited
- few systems offer slide notes (it’s a little awkward to show them separately)
- it’s more difficult to print handouts
- S5 — A Simple Standards-Based Slide Show System ( download )
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- HTML5Rocks (no direct downloads, but you can copy the source)
What are the key features to look for in an HTML5 presentation system?
When choosing an HTML5 presentation system, consider features such as ease of use, customization options, and compatibility with various devices. The system should have an intuitive interface that allows you to create presentations without any coding knowledge. Customization options are important for personalizing your presentation to match your brand or style. Additionally, the system should be compatible with different devices, including desktops, laptops, tablets, and smartphones, to ensure your audience can view your presentation without any issues.
How does HTML5 improve the presentation experience compared to traditional methods?
HTML5 enhances the presentation experience by offering interactive and dynamic content. Unlike traditional methods, HTML5 allows for the integration of multimedia elements like videos, audio, and animations directly into the presentation. This makes the presentation more engaging and interactive for the audience. Additionally, HTML5 presentations are web-based, meaning they can be accessed from any device with an internet connection, providing convenience and flexibility for both the presenter and the audience.
Are HTML5 presentations compatible with all browsers?
HTML5 presentations are generally compatible with all modern web browsers, including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Safari, and Microsoft Edge. However, there may be slight variations in how different browsers render HTML5 content. Therefore, it’s always a good idea to test your presentation on multiple browsers to ensure it displays correctly.
Can I use HTML5 presentation systems for professional purposes?
Yes, HTML5 presentation systems are suitable for a variety of professional purposes. They can be used for business presentations, educational lectures, product demonstrations, and more. The ability to incorporate multimedia elements and interactive features makes HTML5 presentations a powerful tool for conveying complex information in an engaging and understandable way.
How can I make my HTML5 presentation accessible to all users?
To make your HTML5 presentation accessible, ensure that all content is readable and navigable for users with different abilities. This includes providing alternative text for images, captions for videos, and using clear and simple language. Additionally, make sure your presentation is responsive, meaning it adjusts to fit different screen sizes and orientations.
Can I convert my existing PowerPoint presentations to HTML5?
Yes, many HTML5 presentation systems offer the ability to import and convert PowerPoint presentations. This allows you to leverage your existing content while benefiting from the enhanced features and capabilities of HTML5.
Do I need to know how to code to use HTML5 presentation systems?
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HTML5 presentations are as secure as any other web content. However, it’s important to follow best practices for web security, such as using secure hosting platforms and regularly updating your software to protect against potential vulnerabilities.
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Reveal.js is an open-source HTML presentation framework. Anyone with a web browser can use it to make attractive presentations for free. The program allows anyone with a web browser to create fully-featured and interactive presentations that support CSS 3D transforms , nested slides, and a variety of other capabilities. It is recommended for those interested in programmable techniques and web technology.
It has lots of benefits. Some of these consist of the following:
- Responsive design: Reveal.js presentations scale to fit the user’s screen, making them compatible with a wide range of devices.
- Interactive elements: Reveal.js supports these elements, which can improve user experience and make presentations more interesting. Interactive elements include links, images, and videos.
- Themes can be readily modified to reflect the user’s brand or tastes to make a presentation look more attractive when the theme matches the content in a slide.
- Simple and intuitive user interface: Reveal.js enables users to build and edit presentations with minimal technical expertise.
- Open-source: Reveal.js is free to use, and its source code is available for users to examine and edit.
React Reveal vs. Reveal.js: what’s the difference?
The distinction between React Reveal and Reveal.js will be demonstrated in this section:
- HTML, CSS, and JavaScript are the foundations on which Reveal.js is constructed, but React Reveal requires React.
- Reveal.js is the way to go if you want to make static presentations and need to deal with a vanilla JavaScript-based project. React Reveal is the greatest option for creating interactive presentations if you are working with React.
- You can make interactive slides with Reveal.js, which has a number of features like slides and transitions. You can also make interactive slides with React Reveal, but you can also do so while using React components .
- Additional capabilities offered by React Reveal include a higher degree of customization and support for animations.
Alternatives to Reveal.js
Many Reveal.js alternatives may be utilized to make engaging presentations with eye-catching visuals. Several well-liked choices include:
- Impress.js , a JavaScript library that enables the creation of 3D presentations with a range of transitional effects.
- Prezi : An online presentation tool that lets users zoom in and out of slides to make dynamic, interactive presentations.
- PhotoSwipe : An open-source JavaScript picture gallery and lightbox, PhotoSwipe. It is modular, independent of frameworks, and made for desktop and mobile devices.
- Owl Carousel 2 : Owl Carousel 2 is a jQuery carousel plugin with full customization and touch and drag functionality.
- FlexSlider is a fantastic, totally responsive jQuery slider plugin. It offers designers and developers a quick way to launch a slideshow, carousel, or image slider.
- Keynote : Apple’s PowerPoint-like presentation software for Mac and iOS devices.
- Haiku Deck : A web-based application that enables users to design minimalistic presentations with spectacular visual effects.
Getting Started
In this session, we’ll use Reveal.js to create spectacular presentations by utilizing JavaScript. In this section, we’ll learn everything we need to know to get Reveal.js running on our project. To write code to create stunning presentations, let’s first understand the basic setup and installations before using Reveal.
Installations
The best way to install Reveal.js is to clone the source code on GitHub. Utilizing this is extremely simple for you. Just use the code below in your terminal to clone the GitHub repository.
Run the following command to install all the necessary packages and start Reveal.js after you’ve cloned the repository for it in your working directory.
Furthermore, once Reveal.js has been successfully installed in your project, you must start the Reveal.js server on port 8000 (the default port) by executing the following code:
Please use the code below if you decide to run the Reveal.js server on a different port:
You can easily install Reveal.js manually using npm or yarn if you don’t want to clone the GitHub repository:
You may easily include the Reveal.js file as an ES6 module once it has been installed in your front-end framework, such as React:
Folder Structure
This section will go over Reveal.js’ folder structure. When changes are made, the folder structure might change, but this won’t affect how Reveal.js is utilized in our project.
Since we are not the original developers, we won’t be explaining every file in Reveal.js. I’ll go over the most significant directories and files first:
- CSS files that describe how a presentation should appear and be organized are stored in the CSS folder.
- The JS folder houses the JS files that provide interaction and other functionality.
- The presentation begins with a file called index.html that also contains the HTML markup for the slides.
- A reveal.js file contains reveal.js’ setup parameters.
Reveal.js’s folder structure is shown in the image below:
As you can see in the screenshot above, I installed Reveal.js in the opened terminal and launched it by typing npm start .
Starter Template
The starter template is just what is loaded in the index.html page of the Reveal.js folder structure, which we mentioned in the section labeled “Folder Structure” above.
Launch your browser and navigate to the following URLs: http://localhost:8000 The link takes you to the active running page where our presentations will appear in the browser:
This section will concentrate on the contents of Reveal.js. On Reveal Web Presentation, the contents are the components of a responsive presentation. We can use Reveal.js on any project once we have worked with all the components that go into making responsive, stunning presentations, covering Markup, Markdown, Backgrounds, Media, Code Math, Fragments, Links, and Layout.
Markup is the first step in getting started with Reveal.js, and you must use the section element to build markups in Reveal.js. Please remember that the parent class will have the class name . reveal , and the reveal class div will have a child element with the class name .slide . If you place the section element line by line, as in the code below, you will have a slider that moves horizontally.
To make a vertically moving slide, add sections within a section; this is a simple technique; see the code below:
Just use the up and down arrows to view the previous and next slides.
Please use the code below to add a horizontal and vertical sliding format. It’s really simple; the horizontal section of our code will stand alone and not be inside of any section; however, the vertical section will have sections inside of a section.
Backgrounds
It’s simple to add a background color to a slider in Reveal.js; all you have to do is include an attribute that initializes the color for a specific area. You can use the data-background-color attribute to add a background color to a section and specify the value to any color name you choose. View a responsible slider with background colors by referring to the code and outputs below.
Click here to read more about background colors in Reveal.js.
In Reveal.js, media can be used as a presentation. We’ll be showing a video as a presentation in this section. The data-autoplay autoplay attribute must be included in the video tag as an attribute to make the video play when its slide section is open. Code:
You can present codes on the slide and have the code highlighted using Reveal.js. Highlight.js is the only thing that powers the code highlight. You will always use the <code> element when presenting code in Reveal.js, and all you need to do to make HTML escape the default behavior and treat the content as genuine code. Add the data-line-numbers attribute to the <code> element and specify values that will represent the line of code that will be highlighted, as shown below.
In Reveal.js, mathematical expressions can be displayed. To use math in your presentation, you must include the RevealMath.KaTeX plugin, which will reflect the math in your presentation.
Let’s run The Lorenz Equations as a presentation:
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On a slide, fragments are utilized to draw attention to or gradually reveal specific parts. Before moving on to the next slide, each element with the class fragment will be stepped through.
Please include the data-fragment-index attribute and set its value to a number if you wish to use fragments. The number value indexed 1 will appear first, followed by the number 2, in that order.
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While watching slides, Reveal.js also simplified things for us. The following slide in a presentation can be easily reached by clicking a link , and the previous slide can likewise be reached by doing the same.
If you want to navigate to a slider, be sure that the portion of the slider you are visiting has an Id that matches the value of the “href” attribute on the HTML anchor element that is now being clicked.
To instantly navigate to the first page of the slide without passing through any intermediary sections, add ”#/0” (0 == first-slide) to the clickable link that will take you to the first page of the slide.
This section will go over the layout in Reveal.js. You can change the text size, and you can also construct a slide by showing an item on top of the previous item; this is known as staking.
Let’s practice stacking by simply laying images on top of one another.
Now that we understand how stacking works, let’s spend some time working with FIT TEXT. We’ll display some text in a responsive large format in this part under layout by simply utilizing the class name r-fit-text. Below is a code sample of big text applied to Session Replay:
Please note that you can move forward and backward with the arrow keys.
Customization
In this section, we’ll customize some of Reveal.js’s presentations, focusing on Themes and Transitions, the two most significant things to consider while working with Reveal.js.
Theming is essential for creating anything on the internet. In Reveal.js, you can integrate some theme collections supplied by Reveal.js developers.
To use a theme of your choice, import the theme’s CSS styles into your project. The default theme is black when you install reveal.js or clone the Reveal.js repository. A line of code for incorporating a theme into your project is provided below:
Look closely at the code above; you can see where I wrote theme-name ; please replace it with any of the theme names listed below:
- Black (default)
Below, I used a theme name titled sky on a slide:
Utilizing the dracula theme produces the theme below:
Now that we’ve learned more about theming , I’d like you to experiment with different theme names to see how they look on your web presentation slide.
Transitions
Reveal.js provides us with some amazing transition effects to use while making a presentation on the web. It is quite simple to use these transition effects , and some of these transition effects include:
To use these effects, insert a data-transition attribute into your HTML element and set the attribute’s value to the name of the transition effect listed above.
That’s all for transitions in this section; if you want to learn more about Reveal.js transitions, please click here .
We’ll go through presentation features in Reveal.js, such as vertical slides and auto-slide in this section, and since we’ve already covered the implementation largely on vertical slides, we’ll go over more in depth. Let’s get started.
Vertical Slides
Moving between slides by default employs a horizontal sliding transition. These horizontal slides are the main or top-level slides in your presentation. We can’t rely on just one direction in a presentation, and the usage of presenting on slide vertically is critical. We learned how to design a slide that uses vertical direction earlier in this article.
Below is a code sample on utilizing vertical slides:
Auto-Animate
Reveal.js supports auto animation . The auto animate plays a vital role in web presentation. Auto animation applies smooth transition to a slide content, which is noticeable when viewing a presentation. For example, when you set margin-top: 40px to a section, you will see the smooth animation on how the second section comes down slowly. We’ll be implementing some examples here in this section.
To initiate the auto-animate to a section, add the data-auto-animate attribute to the two or multiple sections you want to integrate the auto-animate effect.
The code output above shows that we added margin-top: 100px to the section child (h1) using data-auto-animate , and you can see the effect applied smoothly and removing the default slide horizontal direction to a slightly vertical direction. Please remember that the element in this example is internally hidden but moved using the margin-top attribute. JavaScript will use a CSS transform to achieve fluid movement. Most CSS attributes may be animated and transitioned using the same technique, allowing you to modify positions, font-size, line-height, color, padding, and margin.
We’ll be working on auto-slide in a slide in this section. This is relatively straightforward to accomplish; simply look at our JavaScript code at the bottom of our HTML page and add the autoSlide duration as an integer and set the Boolean value of a loop to true :
JavaScript:
A play/pause icon can be found in the bottom left corner of the slide, as shown in the output above. A round loader describes the progress of the timing function in the icon. The following code is for the output presentation:
Slide Numbers
Numbering is important in slides, and you may add a slider number in two ways: obtain the current slide number and get the slide number and the overall slide count (X/X).
Set slideNumber to true in the config section at the bottom of the HTML page to obtain the real slide number.
Slide Code:
If you look closely at the output above, you will notice a page number counter in the bottom right corner of the screen. When I reached the vertical part while sliding horizontally, the counter format changed to 3.1, which indicates 3 represents the last horizontal slide page and 1 represents the first vertical slide.
To set a slide number in (X/X) format, set your config to the code below:
Please look closely at the bottom right corner of the screen; you will see the page numbering in X/X format. See the code for the output below:
Please, click here to learn more about slide numbers.
Useful hints and guidelines for Reveal.js
In this section, we’ll discover valuable hints and guidelines for working with Reveal.js, which will greatly improve our experience working with Reveal.js for presentation:
- Use keyboard shortcuts to navigate through slides: Use arrow keys or the space bar to move ahead and back through slides.
- Personalize the appearance and feel of your presentation: You can alter the theme, font, and background color of your slides with Reveal.js.
- To add background images to presentations, use the data-background attribute: You can change a slide’s background image by adding the data-background attribute to the slide’ element.
- To set the transition effect between slides, use the data-transition attribute: Transition effects such as ‘slide,’ ‘fade,’ ‘convex,’ and ‘concave’ are available.
I hope you enjoyed this article; we covered everything we needed to know to get started with Reveal.js. We also learned about how to use Reveal.js in our project. There are many more features in Reveal.js, and you can learn more by visiting Reveal’s official website . You may also begin integrating presentations into client’s projects or your project by using Reveal.js; this will help you grow your experience utilizing Reveal.js.
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An awesome jQuery plugin that provides an amazing way to present Html contents in carousel like presentations. You can customize the CSS3 powered animations for each Html element using Html5 data-* attributes.
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Beautiful html presentation library - reveal.js.
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The Presentation API lets a user agent (such as a Web browser) effectively display web content through large presentation devices such as projectors and network-connected televisions. Supported types of multimedia devices include both displays which are wired using HDMI, DVI, or the like, or wireless, using DLNA , Chromecast , AirPlay , or Miracast .
In general, a web page uses the Presentation Controller API to specify the web content to be rendered on presentation device and initiate the presentation session. With Presentation Receiver API, the presenting web content obtains the session status. With providing both the controller page and the receiver one with a messaged-based channel, a Web developer can implement the interaction between these two pages.
Depending on the connection mechanism provided by the presentation device, any controller- and receiver page can be rendered by the same user agent, or by separated user agents.
- For 1-UA mode devices, both pages are loaded by the same user agent. However, rendering result of the receiver page will be sent to the presentation device via supported remote rendering protocol.
- For 2-UAs mode device, the receiver page is loaded directly on the presentation device. Controlling user agent communicates with presentation device via supported presentation control protocol, to control the presentation session and to transmit the message between two pages.
In controlling browsing context, the Presentation interface provides a mechanism to override the browser default behavior of launching presentation to external screen. In receiving browsing context, Presentation interface provides the access to the available presentation connections.
Initiates or reconnects to a presentation made by a controlling browsing context.
A PresentationAvailability object is associated with available presentation displays and represents the presentation display availability for a presentation request.
The PresentationConnectionAvailableEvent is fired on a PresentationRequest when a connection associated with the object is created.
Each presentation connection is represented by a PresentationConnection object.
A PresentationConnectionCloseEvent is fired when a presentation connection enters a closed state.
The PresentationReceiver allows a receiving browsing context to access the controlling browsing contexts and communicate with them.
PresentationConnectionList represents the collection of non-terminated presentation connections. It is also a monitor for the event of new available presentation connection.
Example codes below highlight the usage of main features of the Presentation API: controller.html implements the controller and presentation.html implements the presentation. Both pages are served from the domain https://example.org ( https://example.org/controller.html and https://example.org/presentation.html ). These examples assume that the controlling page is managing one presentation at a time. Please refer to the comments in the code examples for further details.
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Transcript. HTML and XHTML are the foundation of all web development. HTML is used as the graphical user interface in client-side programs written in JavaScript. Server-side languages like PHP and Java also receive data from web pages and use HTML as the output mechanism.
In the function moveToLeftSlide, we basically access the previous sibling element (i.e. the previous slide), remove the .show class on the current slide, and add it to that sibling. This will move the presentation to the previous slide. We do the exact opposite of this in the function moveToRightSlide.Because nextElementSibling is the opposite of previousElementSibling, we'll be getting the ...
Making a Presentation. Copy an existing presentation folder; Change the folder name (which should be located at public/slides) with the name day[num of day] ex(day2) Making a Slide. Making a slide is pretty simple. Just add a HTML section. <section> <!--slide content--> </section> inside the span with the class of "prez-root". Also keep in mind ...
A framework for easily creating beautiful presentations using HTML. Reveal.js HTML Presentations Made Easy. Created by Hakim El Hattab / @hakimel. ... Presentations can be exported to PDF, below is an example that's been uploaded to SlideShare.
The HTML Presentation Framework. Created by Hakim El Hattab and contributors. Sponsored by. Hello There. reveal.js enables you to create beautiful interactive slide decks using HTML. This presentation will show you examples of what it can do. Vertical Slides. Slides can be nested inside of each other. Use the Space key to navigate through all ...
But to further customize the presentation, there's a <script> section at the bottom of index.html where the framework gets initialized. Here you can control many features of how the presentation will behave. For example, by default, the slides transition with a slide animation going from right to left.
Google Slides Template. As you'd expect, Google has their own HTML5 presentation template (as well as the one offered in Google Docs ). It's fairly basic when compared to Reveal.js or Impress ...
WebSlides is the easiest way to make HTML presentations. Just choose a demo and customize it in minutes. 120+ slides ready to use. Good karma. WebSlides is a beautiful solution for telling stories. ... HTML and CSS as narrative elements. Work better, faster. Designers, marketers, and journalists can now focus on the content. Simply choose a ...
WebSlides is a cute solution for making HTML presentations, landings, and portfolios. Put content wherever you want, add background images, videos... How easy is WebSlides? You can create your own presentation instantly. Just a basic knowledge of HTML and CSS is required. Simply choose a demo and customize it.
reveal.js is an open source HTML presentation framework. It enables anyone with a web browser to create beautiful presentations for free. Check out the live demo at revealjs.com.. The framework comes with a powerful feature set including nested slides, Markdown support, Auto-Animate, PDF export, speaker notes, LaTeX typesetting, syntax highlighted code and an extensive API.
Reveal.js is an open-source HTML presentation framework. Anyone with a web browser can use it to make attractive presentations for free. The program allows anyone with a web browser to create fully-featured and interactive presentations that support CSS 3D transforms, nested slides, and a variety of other capabilities.It is recommended for those interested in programmable techniques and web ...
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Best Vanilla JS HTML Presentation Frameworks. reveal.js is an open source HTML presentation framework. It's a tool that enables anyone with a web browser to create fully-featured and beautiful presentations for free. Presentations made with reveal.js are built on open web technologies.
Some rules about HTML: It uses XML syntax (tags with attributes, can contain other tags). < tag_name attribute="value" > content </ tag_name > It stores all the information that must be shown to the user. There are different HTML elements for different types of information and behaviour.; The information is stored in a tree-like structure (nodes that contain nodes inside) called DOM (Document ...
reveal.js enables you at create beautiful interactive slide decks using HTML. This presentation wants show thee examples of what it can do. Vertical Slips. Slides can be nested inside for each others. Use which Space keypad to navigate through view slides. Basement Level 1
This demo by Ivaylo Gerchev accompanies an article for SitePoint and illustrates how to create an HTML and CSS presentation about SVG using WebSlides. ... Pen Settings. HTML CSS JS Behavior Editor HTML. HTML Preprocessor About HTML Preprocessors. HTML preprocessors can make writing HTML more powerful or convenient. For instance, Markdown is ...
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Today I'm starting a series of short videos on Reveal.js, an HTML Presentation Framework for making beautiful web presentations. In this first video, we'll l...
The Presentation API lets a user agent (such as a Web browser) effectively display web content through large presentation devices such as projectors and network-connected televisions. Supported types of multimedia devices include both displays which are wired using HDMI, DVI, or the like, or wireless, using DLNA, Chromecast, AirPlay, or Miracast.. In general, a web page uses the Presentation ...