Adding Pagination to your Website

In this article, Solodev will teach you how to add pagination, an excellent way to navigate large amounts of content, to your website using a jQuery Bootstrap Plugin. Pagination allows you to make large amounts of content easy to find and breaks up several entries or web content into multiple pages, allowing you to toggle through content with ease.

Below is the HTML, CSS, and JavaScript required.

Step 1 — Add the HTML below to your web page

//Swap out the content with your own
<div class="container">
   <div class="jumbotron page" id="page1">
      <div class="container">
         <h1 class="display-3">Adding Pagination to your Website</h1><br>
      <p class="lead">In this article we teach you how to add pagination, an excellent way to navigate large amounts of content, to your website using a jQuery Bootstrap Plugin.</p><br>
      <p><a class="btn btn-lg btn-success" href="#" role="button">Learn More</a></p>
      </div>
   </div>
   <div class="jumbotron page" id="page2">
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   </div>
   <div class="jumbotron page" id="page3">
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      <p>
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      </p>
   </div>
   <div class="jumbotron page" id="page4">
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   </div>
   <div class="jumbotron page" id="page5">
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      <p class="lead">
         <a href="#" class="btn btn-lg btn-primary">Learn more</a>
      </p>
   </div>
   <ul id="pagination-demo" class="pagination-lg pull-right"></ul>
</div>

Step 2 — Add the CSS below to the main stylesheet of your website

.container {
  margin-top: 20px;
}
.page {
  display: none;
}
.page-active {
  display: block;
}

Step 3 — Add the JavaScript below to a file called paging.js

$('#pagination-demo').twbsPagination({
totalPages: 5,
// the current page that show on start
startPage: 1,
// maximum visible pages
visiblePages: 5,
initiateStartPageClick: true,
// template for pagination links
href: false,
// variable name in href template for page number
hrefVariable: '{{number}}',
// Text labels
first: 'First',
prev: 'Previous',
next: 'Next',
last: 'Last',
// carousel-style pagination
loop: false,
// callback function
onPageClick: function (event, page) {
        $('.page-active').removeClass('page-active');
  $('#page'+page).addClass('page-active');
},
// pagination Classes
paginationClass: 'pagination',
nextClass: 'next',
prevClass: 'prev',
lastClass: 'last',
firstClass: 'first',
pageClass: 'page',
activeClass: 'active',
disabledClass: 'disabled'
});

Step 4 — Add the includes below to your web page

<link href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.7/css/bootstrap.min.css">
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.12.4/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://www.solodev.com/assets/pagination/jquery.twbsPagination.js"></script>
<script src="paging.js"></script>

Demo on JSFiddle

Download from GitHub

Originally Posted here on the Solodev Web Design Blog

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