Carousel
A row of slides you move through one at a time with arrows, dots, or a swipe.
What it is
A carousel shows one item (or a few) from a longer row and lets you move left and right through the rest. Dots or a counter show where you are.
Carousels suit photos of a single thing, like a listing's images, or a short set of featured items on mobile where horizontal swiping feels natural. They're a poor home for important content: most people never get past the first slide.
Say whether it should auto-advance (often annoying) and whether it loops back to the start.
How to ask for it
“Show the house photos where you can go through them.”
“Show the listing photos in a carousel: one photo at a time at 16:9, left/right arrows on hover, dots underneath, and swipe on mobile. No auto-advance, and it doesn't loop.”
"Go through them" could be a grid or a lightbox; "carousel" names a one-at-a-time slider and the prompt settles controls and looping.
You've seen this in
- AListing photos on Airbnb
- IMulti-photo posts on Instagram
- NThe "Up next" row on Netflix