Sliding/fading background-image

Question

I have a background image on a container on all pages of a site, but the home page has two images and they would like these images to scroll/fade.

I have used the answer from this post here: CSS background-image slideshow and produced the following:

<script>
var images=new Array('imageurl1','imageurl2');
var nextimage=0;
doSlideshow();

function doSlideshow(){
    if(nextimage>=images.length){nextimage=0;}
    $('.hometopcontentarea')
    .css('background','url("'+images[nextimage++]+'") no-repeat center')
    .fadeIn(500,function(){
        setTimeout(doSlideshow,1000);
    });
}
</script>
        <div class="hometopcontentarea col-xs-12 col-sm-12" style="height: 624px; margin-bottom: 20px;">

The image paths are correct when looking at the source but unfortuately nothing is happening and the images aren't loading.

What could I be doing wrong?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

i think you're looking for this:

var images = [
      "http://www.independent.ie/incoming/article29989530.ece/ALTERNATES/h342/Li%20Ann%20Smal%20-App.jpg",
      "http://im.rediff.com/news/2015/dec/24tpoty20.jpg"
    ]
    var nextimage = 0;
    function doSlideshow(){
        if(nextimage>=images.length){nextimage=0;}
        $('.hometopcontentarea')
        .css({
          background: 'url('+ images[nextimage++]+') no-repeat center',
          opacity:0,
        })
        .fadeTo('slow',1);
      setTimeout(doSlideshow,4000);

    }

    doSlideshow();

( demo )

the problem with the fadeIn function is that you can't fade in 1 element 2 times. once it's already visible, you need to reset the opacity to allow a second fade-in.