Two additional ways of controlling a slider could be by scrolling and using the arrow keys on a keyboard while the mouse cursor hovers over a slider. I personally use the arrow keys often on sliders whenever possible.
Hi @JvP,
Thanks! We are going to experiment with using scrolling as an option in addition to dragging. We may be adding this, but I don’t know just yet. Arrow keys was meant to be working, but looks like it isn’t anymore. We’ll look into what’s going on there.
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Hey @alexander, arrow key navigation now works in the RC, but you have to click on the slider first before you can use the arrow keys. Is that intentional behavior or could it also be made so that simply hovering over the slider allows arrow key navigation?
Scrolling hasn’t been implemented (yet)? I was looking for some examples and found this one: https://smartslider3.com/fullsize/
That slider can be controlled by scrolling, and after the last slide, you can scroll further down the page. It’s a cool effect that currently can’t be replicated with the new Slider element as far as I can tell.
Hi @JvP,
Yes, we opted to only invoke the arrow keys if the slider has been interacted with. This does include if any of the elements are focused. Scrolling should be working, but you need to enable Drag interactions first.
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Hey @alexander,
Unless I’m misunderstanding how the scrolling is supposed to work, I can’t seem to control a slider using the scroll wheel no matter what.
Regarding the arrow keys, sounds good 
It’s linked to native horizontal scrolling behavior of the browser. If you’re using a trackpad or a mouse that has multi axis scrolling like Apple’s Magic Mouse it should just work. If it’s a mouse with a scroll wheel, you may need to hold ctrl to flip the scroll axis.
Can’t get this to work. Holding control and scrolling zooms the browser in and out.
I’m sorry, it’s “shift” to swap the scroll axis of mouse wheels natively.
Pressing down on the scroll wheel works for navigation but scrolling the mouse wheel up or down doesn’t. Is that just not supported and I’m misunderstanding how this feature is supposed to work? The slider on the page I linked to earlier (https://smartslider3.com/fullsize/) let’s you scroll the mouse wheel up / down for navigation.
Hi @JvP,
It might not work on all devices then. We built it primarily so it would work with trackpads. We might revisit it in the future and add some options in the builder to enable scrolling, but for now we’re just going to go with the current implementation.
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Alright, that’s fine. For what it’s worth, I’m using a good old fashioned mouse with a scroll wheel 
Mouse wheel to move between slides is a must now. I am really surprised that Theme.co has not implemented this. As much as I love your Theme.co, which I have been using for over a decade, I start having the feeling that it’s falling behind compared to other dominant theme brands.
Hey @catinahat
In what areas do you think Pro is lacking compared to the competititon?
Personally I think Pro is pretty feature rich and robust and very flexible. Of course there’s always room for improvement. If you give @charlie a little list of things you may just see it added in a future update.
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Sliders has been one of those things for me, where I think it’d be better long term solution to implement a feature rich slider library into our sliders as opposed to continuing our home-brewed slider library. Similar to the Twig integration, as opposed to me recreating Twig with our Dynamic Content. That would explain why they have been a bit stagnant.
There is some scroll code in our sliders, although I can tell this code would never work. I’ll try to release a fix for what we have in 6.7.0. Have a great day.
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