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Hakim El Hattab authoredHakim El Hattab authored
A framework for easily creating beautiful presentations using HTML. Check out the live demo.
reveal.js comes with a broad range of features including nested slides, markdown contents, PDF export, speaker notes and a JavaScript API. It's best viewed in a browser with support for CSS 3D transforms but fallbacks are available to make sure your presentation can still be viewed elsewhere.
More reading:
- Installation: Step-by-step instructions for getting reveal.js running on your computer.
- Changelog: Up-to-date version history.
- Examples: Presentations created with reveal.js, add your own!
- Browser Support: Explanation of browser support and fallbacks.
Online Editor
Presentations are written using HTML or markdown but there's also an online editor for those of you who prefer a graphical interface. Give it a try at http://slid.es.
Instructions
Markup
Markup hierarchy needs to be <div class="reveal"> <div class="slides"> <section>
where the <section>
represents one slide and can be repeated indefinitely. If you place multiple <section>
's inside of another <section>
they will be shown as vertical slides. The first of the vertical slides is the "root" of the others (at the top), and it will be included in the horizontal sequence. For example:
<div class="reveal">
<div class="slides">
<section>Single Horizontal Slide</section>
<section>
<section>Vertical Slide 1</section>
<section>Vertical Slide 2</section>
</section>
</div>
</div>
Markdown
It's possible to write your slides using Markdown. To enable Markdown, add the data-markdown
attribute to your <section>
elements and wrap the contents in a <script type="text/template">
like the example below.
This is based on data-markdown from Paul Irish modified to use marked to support Github Flavoured Markdown. Sensitive to indentation (avoid mixing tabs and spaces) and line breaks (avoid consecutive breaks).
<section data-markdown>
<script type="text/template">
## Page title
A paragraph with some text and a [link](http://hakim.se).
</script>
</section>
External Markdown
You can write your content as a separate file and have reveal.js load it at runtime. Note the separator arguments which determine how slides are delimited in the external file. The data-charset
attribute is optional and specifies which charset to use when loading the external file.
<section data-markdown="example.md" data-separator="^\n\n\n" data-vertical="^\n\n" data-notes="^Note:" data-charset="iso-8859-15"></section>
Element Attributes
Special syntax (in html comment) is available for adding attributes to Markdown elements. This is useful for fragments, amongst other things.
<section data-markdown>
<script type="text/template">
- Item 1 <!-- .element: class="fragment" data-fragment-index="2" -->
- Item 2 <!-- .element: class="fragment" data-fragment-index="1" -->
</script>
</section>
Slide Attributes
Special syntax (in html comment) is available for adding attributes to the slide <section>
elements generated by your Markdown.
<section data-markdown>
<script type="text/template">
<!-- .slide: data-background="#ff0000" -->
Mardown content
</script>
</section>
Configuration
At the end of your page you need to initialize reveal by running the following code. Note that all config values are optional and will default as specified below.
Reveal.initialize({
// Display controls in the bottom right corner
controls: true,
// Display a presentation progress bar
progress: true,
// Display the page number of the current slide
slideNumber: false,
// Push each slide change to the browser history
history: false,
// Enable keyboard shortcuts for navigation
keyboard: true,
// Enable the slide overview mode
overview: true,
// Vertical centering of slides
center: true,
// Enables touch navigation on devices with touch input
touch: true,
// Loop the presentation
loop: false,
// Change the presentation direction to be RTL
rtl: false,
// Turns fragments on and off globally
fragments: true,
// Flags if the presentation is running in an embedded mode,
// i.e. contained within a limited portion of the screen
embedded: false,
// Number of milliseconds between automatically proceeding to the
// next slide, disabled when set to 0, this value can be overwritten
// by using a data-autoslide attribute on your slides
autoSlide: 0,
// Stop auto-sliding after user input
autoSlideStoppable: true,
// Enable slide navigation via mouse wheel
mouseWheel: false,
// Hides the address bar on mobile devices
hideAddressBar: true,
// Opens links in an iframe preview overlay
previewLinks: false,
// Transition style
transition: 'default', // default/cube/page/concave/zoom/linear/fade/none
// Transition speed
transitionSpeed: 'default', // default/fast/slow
// Transition style for full page slide backgrounds
backgroundTransition: 'default', // default/none/slide/concave/convex/zoom
// Number of slides away from the current that are visible
viewDistance: 3,
// Parallax background image
parallaxBackgroundImage: '', // e.g. "'https://s3.amazonaws.com/hakim-static/reveal-js/reveal-parallax-1.jpg'"
// Parallax background size
parallaxBackgroundSize: '' // CSS syntax, e.g. "2100px 900px"
});
Note that the new default vertical centering option will break compatibility with slides that were using transitions with backgrounds (cube
and page
). To restore the previous behavior, set center
to false
.
The configuration can be updated after initialization using the configure
method:
// Turn autoSlide off
Reveal.configure({ autoSlide: 0 });
// Start auto-sliding every 5s
Reveal.configure({ autoSlide: 5000 });
Dependencies
Reveal.js doesn't rely on any third party scripts to work but a few optional libraries are included by default. These libraries are loaded as dependencies in the order they appear, for example:
Reveal.initialize({
dependencies: [
// Cross-browser shim that fully implements classList - https://github.com/eligrey/classList.js/
{ src: 'lib/js/classList.js', condition: function() { return !document.body.classList; } },
// Interpret Markdown in <section> elements
{ src: 'plugin/markdown/marked.js', condition: function() { return !!document.querySelector( '[data-markdown]' ); } },
{ src: 'plugin/markdown/markdown.js', condition: function() { return !!document.querySelector( '[data-markdown]' ); } },
// Syntax highlight for <code> elements
{ src: 'plugin/highlight/highlight.js', async: true, callback: function() { hljs.initHighlightingOnLoad(); } },
// Zoom in and out with Alt+click
{ src: 'plugin/zoom-js/zoom.js', async: true, condition: function() { return !!document.body.classList; } },
// Speaker notes
{ src: 'plugin/notes/notes.js', async: true, condition: function() { return !!document.body.classList; } },
// Remote control your reveal.js presentation using a touch device
{ src: 'plugin/remotes/remotes.js', async: true, condition: function() { return !!document.body.classList; } },
// MathJax
{ src: 'plugin/math/math.js', async: true }
]
});
You can add your own extensions using the same syntax. The following properties are available for each dependency object:
- src: Path to the script to load
- async: [optional] Flags if the script should load after reveal.js has started, defaults to false
- callback: [optional] Function to execute when the script has loaded
- condition: [optional] Function which must return true for the script to be loaded
Presentation Size
All presentations have a normal size, that is the resolution at which they are authored. The framework will automatically scale presentations uniformly based on this size to ensure that everything fits on any given display or viewport.
See below for a list of configuration options related to sizing, including default values:
Reveal.initialize({
...
// The "normal" size of the presentation, aspect ratio will be preserved
// when the presentation is scaled to fit different resolutions. Can be
// specified using percentage units.
width: 960,
height: 700,
// Factor of the display size that should remain empty around the content
margin: 0.1,
// Bounds for smallest/largest possible scale to apply to content
minScale: 0.2,
maxScale: 1.0
});
Auto-sliding
Presentations can be configure to progress through slides automatically, without any user input. To enable this you will need to tell the framework how many milliseconds it should wait between slides:
// Slide every five seconds
Reveal.configure({
autoSlide: 5000
});
When this is turned on a control element will appear that enables users to pause and resume auto-sliding. Sliding is also paused automatically as soon as the user starts navigating. You can disable these controls by specifying autoSlideStoppable: false
in your reveal.js config.
You can also override the slide duration for individual slides by using the data-autoslide
attribute on individual sections:
<section data-autoslide="10000">This will remain on screen for 10 seconds</section>
Keyboard Bindings
If you're unhappy with any of the default keyboard bindings you can override them using the keyboard
config option:
Reveal.configure({
keyboard: {
13: 'next', // go to the next slide when the ENTER key is pressed
27: function() {}, // do something custom when ESC is pressed
32: null // don't do anything when SPACE is pressed (i.e. disable a reveal.js default binding)
}
});
API
The Reveal
class provides a JavaScript API for controlling navigation and reading state: