Ticks in JavaScript (ES5) Range Slider control

23 Mar 2023 / 2 minutes to read

The Ticks in Slider supports you to easily identify the current value/values of the Slider. It contains smallStep and largeStep. The value of the major ticks alone will be displayed in the slider. In order to enable/disable the small ticks, use the showSmallTicks property.

Source

Preview

index.js

index.html

index.css

// Initialize Slider component
var sliderObj = new ej.inputs.Slider({
    tooltip: { placement: 'Before', isVisible: true, showOn: 'Always' },
    value: 30,
    // Slider ticks customization
    ticks: { placement: 'After', largeStep: 20, smallStep: 10, showSmallTicks: true }
});
// Render initialized Slider
sliderObj.appendTo('#slider');

<!DOCTYPE html><html lang="en"><head>
            
    <title>Essential JS 2 Slider</title>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
    <meta name="description" content="Essential JS 2 Slider Component">
    <meta name="author" content="Syncfusion">
    <link href="index.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.1.35/ej2-base/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.1.35/ej2-inputs/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.1.35/ej2-popups/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.1.35/ej2-buttons/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    
    
<script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.1.35/dist/ej2.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</head>
<body>
    
    <div id="container">
        <div class="wrap">
          <div id="slider">
          </div>
        </div>
    </div>

<script>
var ele = document.getElementById('container');
if(ele) {
    ele.style.visibility = "visible";
 }   
        </script>
<script src="index.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</body></html>

#container {
  visibility: hidden;
}

#loader {
  color: #008cff;
  font-family: 'Helvetica Neue','calibiri';
  font-size: 14px;
  height: 40px;
  left: 45%;
  position: absolute;
  top: 45%;
  width: 30%;
}

.wrap {
  box-sizing: border-box;
  height: 260px;
  margin: 0 auto;
  padding: 30px 10px;
  width: 260px;
}

Step

When the Slider is moved, it increases/decreases the value based on the step value. By default, the value is increased/decreased by 1. Use the step property to change the increment step value.

Source

Preview

index.js

index.html

index.css

// Initialize Slider component
var rangeObj = new ej.inputs.Slider({
    ticks: { placement: 'After', largeStep: 20, smallStep: 10, showSmallTicks: true },
    tooltip: { placement: 'Before', isVisible: true, showOn: 'Always' },
    value: 30,
    // Enables step
    step: 10
});
// Render initialized Slider
rangeObj.appendTo('#slider');

<!DOCTYPE html><html lang="en"><head>
            
    <title>Essential JS 2 Slider</title>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
    <meta name="description" content="Essential JS 2 Slider Component">
    <meta name="author" content="Syncfusion">
    <link href="index.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.1.35/ej2-base/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.1.35/ej2-inputs/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.1.35/ej2-popups/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.1.35/ej2-buttons/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    
    
<script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.1.35/dist/ej2.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</head>
<body>
    
    <div id="container">
        <div class="wrap">
          <div id="slider">
          </div>
        </div>
    </div>

<script>
var ele = document.getElementById('container');
if(ele) {
    ele.style.visibility = "visible";
 }   
        </script>
<script src="index.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</body></html>

#container {
  visibility: hidden;
}

#loader {
  color: #008cff;
  font-family: 'Helvetica Neue','calibiri';
  font-size: 14px;
  height: 40px;
  left: 45%;
  position: absolute;
  top: 45%;
  width: 30%;
}

.wrap {
  box-sizing: border-box;
  height: 260px;
  margin: 0 auto;
  padding: 30px 10px;
  width: 260px;
}

Min and Max

Enables the minimum/starting and maximum/ending value of the Slider, by using the min and max property. By default, the minimum value is 1 and maximum value is 100. In the following sample the slider is rendered with the min value as 100 and max value as 1000.

Source

Preview

index.js

index.html

index.css

// Initialize Slider component
var rangeObj = new ej.inputs.Slider({
    ticks: { placement: 'After', largeStep: 200, smallStep: 100, showSmallTicks: true },
    tooltip: { placement: 'Before', isVisible: true, showOn: 'Always' },
    // Minimum value
    min: 100,
    // Maximum value
    max: 1100,
    // Slider current value
    value: 400
});
// Render initialized Slider
rangeObj.appendTo('#slider');

<!DOCTYPE html><html lang="en"><head>
            
    <title>Essential JS 2 Slider</title>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
    <meta name="description" content="Essential JS 2 Slider Component">
    <meta name="author" content="Syncfusion">
    <link href="index.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.1.35/ej2-base/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.1.35/ej2-inputs/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.1.35/ej2-popups/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.1.35/ej2-buttons/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    
    
<script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.1.35/dist/ej2.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</head>
<body>
    
    <div id="container">
        <div class="wrap">
          <div id="slider">
          </div>
        </div>
    </div>

<script>
var ele = document.getElementById('container');
if(ele) {
    ele.style.visibility = "visible";
 }   
        </script>
<script src="index.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</body></html>

#container {
  visibility: hidden;
}

#loader {
  color: #008cff;
  font-family: 'Helvetica Neue','calibiri';
  font-size: 14px;
  height: 40px;
  left: 45%;
  position: absolute;
  top: 45%;
  width: 30%;
}

.wrap {
  box-sizing: border-box;
  height: 260px;
  margin: 0 auto;
  padding: 30px 10px;
  width: 260px;
}

Contents

Step
Min and Max

Contents

Step
Min and Max