inline styles

Hi,

The styles added on slider container and slides are used for animation and to set the slider size from the settings. They can’t be removed unfortunately. If I may ask, what styles do you want to change?

As a note, you could create a custom slider theme that uses a custom script of your choice (like we did with theme Nivo slider).

I wanted a custom layout and the thing kept resizing everything. I know how to make images the right size so I don’t need any resizing unless to make it responsive. And I much prefer a straight css approach to responsive. I’ve done sliders from “scratch” for none wp sites and I don’t recall them needing to use inline styles. Its over kill.

I understand. The default slider theme works like that, nothing that can be done about it.
If you’re interested, since you mentioned you developed sliders before and since you need your custom solution, you could create your own slider theme (I mentioned this in my previous reply). It’s not very difficult and you can create your own customized output and script for your exact needs.

I know I can create my own slider theme. The whole point of WP is to avoid inventing the wheel.

There seems to be a major flaw in everyone’s approach in WP. They get too detailed in their designs which means anyone that wants to customize something has to waste lots of time overriding the defaults. My favorite example is themes that reset the font family over and over and over and over again rather than set it once at the “top” allow it be inherited.

I’ll look at the nivo slider again.