Making a jQuery cycle plugin become responsive to the layout pixels?

Question

This is my markup for a slideshow. As you can see in my stylesheet I am specifying the slideshow's height explicitly, but I would really like to avoid this, so that when I make the browser larger or smaller the slideshow size changes as well.

<section class="contentSlider">
    <section class="contentSliderControls">
        <a href="#" class="controlPrev">Prev</a>
        <a href="#" class="controlNext">Next</a>
        <ul class="controlSlides"></ul>
    </section>
    <ul class="slides">
        <li><img class="sliderImage" src="/images/sliderContent_1.png" alt="" /></li>
        <li><img class="sliderImage" src="/images/sliderContent_1.png" alt="" /></li>
        <li><img class="sliderImage" src="/images/sliderContent_1.png" alt="" /></li>
        <li><img class="sliderImage" src="/images/sliderContent_1.png" alt="" /></li>
        <li><img class="sliderImage" src="/images/sliderContent_1.png" alt="" /></li>
        <li><img class="sliderImage" src="/images/sliderContent_1.png" alt="" /></li>
        <li><img class="sliderImage" src="/images/sliderContent_1.png" alt="" /></li>
        <li><img class="sliderImage" src="/images/sliderContent_1.png" alt="" /></li>
    </ul>

This is my javascript

$(function() {
    $('.slides').cycle({
        fx:      'scrollHorz',
        timeout:  0,
        prev:    '.contentSliderControls > .controlPrev',
        next:    '.contentSliderControls > .controlNext',
        pager:   '.contentSliderControls > .controlSlides',
        pagerAnchorBuilder: pagerFactory
    });

function pagerFactory(idx, slide) {
    return '<li><a href="#">'+(idx+1)+'</a></li>';
    };
});

and my css

/* Content Slider */

.contentSlider {
position: relative;
}

.contentSlider, .contentSlider > .slides {
height: 504px;
}

.controlSlides > li {
float: left;
}

.contentSlider > .slides {
z-index: 1;
}

.sliderImage {
width: 100%;
}

.contentSliderControls {
height: 504px;
position: absolute;
width: 100%;
z-index: 2;
}

.contentSliderControls > .controlPrev {
background-color: #ffffff;
color: #000000;
display: block;
float:left;
height: 504px;
opacity: .5;
width: 10%;
}

.contentSliderControls > .controlNext {
background-color: #ffffff;
color: #000000;
display: block;
float:right;
height: 504px;
opacity: .5;
width: 10%;
}

Any help is greatly appreciated

Answer 1

I've solved this problem like this:

var activeSlide;

$(document).ready(function() {

$('.cycle').cycle({
    containerResize: 1,
    width: 'fit',
    after: function(curr, next, obj) {
        activeSlide = obj.currSlide;
    }
});

$(window).resize(function(){
    $('.cycle').cycle('destroy');
    $('.cycle').each(function(){
        newWidth = $(this).parent('div').width();
        $(this).width(newWidth);
        $(this).height('auto');
        $(this).children('div').width(newWidth);
        $(this).children('div').height('auto');
    });
    $('.cycle').cycle({
        containerResize: 1,
        width: 'fit',
        after: function(curr, next, obj) {
            activeSlide = obj.currSlide;
        },
        startingSlide: activeSlide
    });
});

});