Initialization

To initialize dhtmlxSlider on a page, you need to take the following simple steps:

Download the Slider package and unpack it into a folder of your project
Include source files
Create a container
Initialize Slider with the object constructor

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    <head>
        <title>How to Start with dhtmlxSlider</title>         
        <script type="text/javascript" src="../../codebase/slider.js"></script>
        <link rel="stylesheet" href="../../codebase/slider.css">
    </head>
    <body>
        <div id="slider_container"></div>
        <script>            // creating dhtmlxSlider 
            var slider = new dhx.Slider("slider_container", {
                min: 0,
                max: 100,
                step: 1,
                value: 30
            });
        </script>
    </body>
</html>

Include source files

Create an HTML file and place full paths to CSS and JS files of dhtmlxSlider into the header of the created HTML file. The files are:

slider.js
slider.css

<script type="text/javascript" src="../../codebase/slider.js"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="../../codebase/slider.css">

Create container

Add a container for Slider and give it an id, for example "slider_container":

slider.html

<div id="slider_container"></div>

Initialize Slider

Initialize Slider with the dhx.Slider object constructor. The constructor has two parameters:

the HTML container for Slider,
optional, an object with configuration properties (see the full list below). If this argument is not passed to the constructor, the settings will be default.

slider.html

// creating dhtmlxSlider
var slider = new dhx.Slider("slider_container", {
    min: 0,
    max: 100,
    step: 1
});

There is a set of properties you can specify for Slider to optimize its configuration for your needs. Read the details below.

Configuration properties

You can specify the following properties in the configuration object of Slider:

min - (number) the minimal value of slider, 0 by default
max - (number) the maximal value of slider, 100 by default
step - (number) the step the slider thumb will be moved with, 1 by default
mode - (string) the direction of the Slider scale, "horizontal" by default
thumbLabel - (boolean) enables prompt messages with ticks values on hovering over the slider thumb, true by default
range - (boolean) enables/disables the possibility to select a range of values on the slider
value - (number) the value the thumb will be set at on initialization of the slider
inverse - (boolean) enables/disables the inverse slider mode
tick - (number) sets the interval of steps for rendering the slider scale
majorTick - (number) sets interval of rendering numeric values on the slider scale
tickTemplate - (function) sets a template for rendering values on the scale
label - (string) specifies the label of a slider
labelInline - (boolean) defines whether the label of a slider is rendered on the same level with the trackbar or above it
labelWidth - (string) sets the width of a label
css - (string) adds style classes for the component

The detailed information on configuration options can be found in the Configuration article.