Slideshow with Pause on Hover in jQuery

I searched and I could not find something similar already out there, so here is a simple slideshow that will pause when you mouseover. With JavaScript disabled only the contents of the div inside the slideshow will be displayed.

Multiple slideshows per page are supported.

JS

var slideshow = {};

$(document).ready(function(){
  slideshowStart('#slideshow1');
  slideshowStart('#slideshow2',4000,true);
});

function slideshowStart(e,delay,random) {
  delay = (delay==null) ? 2000 : delay;
  random = (random==null) ? false : random;
  $(e).find('a').hide();

  var id = $(e).attr('id');
  slideshow[id] = {}
  slideshow[id].items = $(e).find('a');
  slideshow[id].delay = delay;
  slideshow[id].random = random;
  var s = slideshow[id];

  $(e).find('a').hover(function(){
    s.pause = true;
  },function(){
    s.pause = false;
    slideshowHide(id,$(s.items[s.i]));
  });

  slideshowShow(id);
}

function slideshowShow(id) {
  var s = slideshow[id];
  if (s.pause) return;

  if (s.random)
    s.i = Math.floor(Math.random()*s.items.length);
  else
    (s.i==null || s.i+1 >= s.items.length) ? s.i=0 : s.i++;

  $(s.items[s.i]).fadeIn('slow').animate({opacity: 1.0}, s.delay, function(){
    if (!s.pause) {
      slideshowHide(id,$(s.items[s.i]));
    }
  });
}

function slideshowHide(id,e) {
  var s = slideshow[id];
  if (s.fade) return;
  s.fade = true;
  $(e).fadeOut('slow',function(){
    s.fade = false;
    (s.pause) ? $(e).fadeIn('fast') : slideshowShow(id);
  });
}

CSS

#slideshow1 a {
  display: none;
}
#slideshow1 div a {
  display: block;
}

#slideshow2 a {
  display: none;
}
#slideshow2 div a {
  display: block;
}

HTML

<div id="slideshow1">
  <div>
    <a href="#1"><div style="width:100;height:100;background-color:red;"></div></a>
  </div>
  <a href="#2"><div style="width:100;height:100;background-color:green;"></div></a>
  <a href="#3"><div style="width:100;height:100;background-color:blue;"></div></a>
  <a href="#4"><div style="width:100;height:100;background-color:orange;"></div></a>
  <a href="#5"><div style="width:100;height:100;background-color:pink;"></div></a>
  <a href="#6"><div style="width:100;height:100;background-color:purple;"></div></a>
  <a href="#7"><div style="width:100;height:100;background-color:black;"></div></a>
</div>

<div id="slideshow2">
  <div>
    <a href="#1"><div style="width:250;height:250;background-color:red;"></div></a>
  </div>
  <a href="#2"><div style="width:250;height:250;background-color:green;"></div></a>
  <a href="#3"><div style="width:250;height:250;background-color:blue;"></div></a>
  <a href="#4"><div style="width:250;height:250;background-color:orange;"></div></a>
  <a href="#5"><div style="width:250;height:250;background-color:pink;"></div></a>
  <a href="#6"><div style="width:250;height:250;background-color:purple;"></div></a>
  <a href="#7"><div style="width:250;height:250;background-color:black;"></div></a>
</div>

demo

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