Slideshow content container behavior enhancement

[melissaperreault]

Describe the current behavior

It is not easy for merchants to build a content free slideshow. We are currently relying on multiple settings to completely hide the content container.

1. Remove each text input content and button labels from each slide
2. Uncheck [ ] Show container on desktop setting from each slide
3. Uncheck [ ] Show content below images on mobile on the section
4. That's a lot!

It is also not intuitive to find out why we are left with an extra space on mobile.

Describe the expected behavior

We should be able to hide the content container by relying with just number 1 above. There is no benefit at showing an empty box.

Version information (Dawn, browsers and operating systems)

• Dawn Version: 3.0
• Chrome Version 97.0.4692.99
• macOS Version 12.2

Pings here: @wiktoriaswiecicka @danielvan

[danielvan]

Does that mean that doing 1 would by default have the same result as doing 1, 2 and 3?

[bredowmax]

I like this issue! I've also noticed how the Slideshow section isn't useful just as the hero section on top of the main page, but also for a variety of other use cases, such as displaying customer reviews. Adding more flexibility to this section would be very welcome!

My example goes the opposite direction, though - I had to add an image with 4:1 aspect ratio that consists of only white pixels to achieve this section:

@melissaperreault I'd love to be able to build not only content-free slideshows - but also image-free slideshows (without workarounds)

[melissaperreault]

Does that mean that doing 1 would by default have the same result as doing 1, 2 and 3?

@danielvan Exactly!

I'd love to be able to build not only content-free slideshows - but also image-free slideshows (without workarounds)

@bredowmax This is something you can already achieve with Multicolumn section, but only on mobile when you activate Enable swipe on mobile. Thanks for the feedback, I'll share with the team! In the meantime, I encourage you to open an issue to express your thoughts further. 🙏

[danielvan]

I do like the idea of allowing media-free slides though by using our theme colours, as I can see how a merchant could creatively use 1st slide to promote a product, 2nd slide to talk about a review and 3rd slide for collection – with the added value of the multiple layout options from slideshow. @melissaperreault happy to chat on this as I see your point on how it could overlap with multicolumn. Maybe there are use cases for both, or we can prioritise one over the other.

[bredowmax]

Does that mean that doing 1 would by default have the same result as doing 1, 2 and 3?

@danielvan Exactly!

I'd love to be able to build not only content-free slideshows - but also image-free slideshows (without workarounds)

@bredowmax This is something you can already achieve with Multicolumn section, but only on mobile when you activate Enable swipe on mobile. Thanks for the feedback, I'll share with the team! In the meantime, I encourage you to open an issue to express your thoughts further. 🙏

Correct, the Multicolumn section does provide a similar look&feel - but I do prefer the Slideshow section in this case because of the autorotate feature. I noticed in user testing that in a Multicolumn section with "Swipe on Mobile", any but the first column is often overlooked. That's why I'd like to be able to build Slideshow slides without images.