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Building Impressive Presentations with impress.js

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Product type Book
Published in Mar 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849696487
Pages 124 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters

Building Impressive Presentations with impress.js
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Getting Started with Impressive Presentations 2. Exploring Impress Visualization Effects 3. Diving into the Core of impress.js 4. Presenting on Different Viewports 5. Creating Personal Websites 6. Troubleshooting Impress Tools and Resources Index

impress.js step events


JavaScript provides a list of in-built events and we can also use event listener functions on those events. Likewise, we can also create our own custom events. impress.js provides two custom events for handling step transition functionality. stepenter and stepleave is used in the core code to handle these events. Let's take a look at the implementation in the impress.js file:

root.addEventListener("impress:stepenter", function (event) {
    event.target.classList.remove("past");
    event.target.classList.remove("future");
    event.target.classList.add("present");
}, false);

root.addEventListener("impress:stepleave", function (event) {
    event.target.classList.remove("present");
    event.target.classList.add("past");
}, false);

In each step transition, the stepleave event of the current step is fired first, followed by the stepenter event of the next step. Inside the stepenter event, we remove the past and future classes and add the present class to make it an active...

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