Owl Carousel, making custom navigation

Question

So i have an Owl Carousel that contains three images. I also added custom navigation arrows (.png images) on left and right sides. However, those arrows are currently useless, because I can't find a way to actually make them switch between images of my Owl Carousel. I searched endlessly and can't find the solution. Any ideas?

Answer 1

Complete tutorial here

Demo link

JavaScript

$('.owl-carousel').owlCarousel({
    margin: 10,
    nav: true,
    navText:["<div class='nav-btn prev-slide'></div>","<div class='nav-btn next-slide'></div>"],
    responsive: {
        0: {
            items: 1
        },
        600: {
            items: 3
        },
        1000: {
            items: 5
        }
    }
});

CSS Style for navigation

.owl-carousel .nav-btn{
  height: 47px;
  position: absolute;
  width: 26px;
  cursor: pointer;
  top: 100px !important;
}

.owl-carousel .owl-prev.disabled,
.owl-carousel .owl-next.disabled{
pointer-events: none;
opacity: 0.2;
}

.owl-carousel .prev-slide{
  background: url(nav-icon.png) no-repeat scroll 0 0;
  left: -33px;
}
.owl-carousel .next-slide{
  background: url(nav-icon.png) no-repeat scroll -24px 0px;
  right: -33px;
}
.owl-carousel .prev-slide:hover{
 background-position: 0px -53px;
}
.owl-carousel .next-slide:hover{
background-position: -24px -53px;
}   

Answer 2

my solution is

navigationText: ["", ""]

full code is below:

    var owl1 = $("#main-demo");
    owl1.owlCarousel({
        navigation: true, // Show next and prev buttons
        slideSpeed: 300,
        pagination:false,
        singleItem: true, transitionStyle: "fade",
        navigationText: ["", ""]
    });// Custom Navigation Events

    owl1.trigger('owl.play', 4500);

Answer 3

Create your custom navigation and give them classes you want, then you are ready to go. it's simple as that.

Let's see an example:

<div class="owl-carousel">
      <div class="single_img"><img src="1.png" alt=""></div>
      <div class="single_img"><img src="2.png" alt=""></div>
      <div class="single_img"><img src="3.png" alt=""></div>
      <div class="single_img"><img src="4.png" alt=""></div>
</div>
		
<div class="slider_nav">
	<button class="am-next">Next</button>
	<button class="am-prev">Previous</button>
</div>

In your js file you can do the following:

 $(".owl-carousel").owlCarousel({
    // you can use jQuery selector
    navText: [$('.am-next'),$('.am-prev')]
 
});

Answer 4

You can use a JS and SCSS/Fontawesome combination for the Prev/Next buttons.

In your JS (this includes screenreader only/accessibility classes with Zurb Foundation):

$('.whatever-carousel').owlCarousel({
    ... ...
    navText: ["<span class='show-for-sr'>Previous</span>","<span class='show-for-sr'>Next</span>"]
    ... ...
})

In your SCSS this:

.owl-theme {

    .owl-nav {
        .owl-prev,
        .owl-next {
            font-family: FontAwesome;
            //border-radius: 50%;
            //padding: whatever-to-get-a-circle;
            transition: all, .2s, ease;
        }
        .owl-prev {
            &::before {
                content: "\f104";
            }
        }
        .owl-next {
            &::before {
                content: "\f105";
            }
        }
    }
}

For the FontAwesome font-family I happen to use the embed code in the document header:

<script src="//use.fontawesome.com/123456whatever.js"></script>

There are various ways to include FA, strokes/folks, but I find this is pretty fast and as I'm using webpack I can just about live with that 1 extra js server call.

And to update this - there's also this JS option for slightly more complex arrows, still with accessibility in mind:

$('.whatever-carousel').owlCarousel({
    navText: ["<span class=\"fa-stack fa-lg\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span class=\"show-for-sr\">Previous</span><i class=\"fa fa-circle fa-stack-2x\"></i><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-left fa-stack-1x fa-inverse\" aria-hidden=\"true\"></i></span>","<span class=\"fa-stack fa-lg\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span class=\"show-for-sr\">Next</span><i class=\"fa fa-circle fa-stack-2x\"></i><i class=\"fa fa-chevron-right fa-stack-1x fa-inverse\" aria-hidden=\"true\"></i></span>"]
})

Loads of escaping there, use single quotes instead if preferred.

And in the SCSS just comment out the ::before attrs:

.owl-prev {
        //&::before { content: "\f104"; }
    }
    .owl-next {
        //&::before { content: "\f105"; }
    }

Answer 5

You need to enable navigation and edit navigationText:

> Assuming this is version 1.3.2

owlgraphic.com/owlcarousel/#customizing

Note: It appears the site for Owl 1.3 is now down, so here is a forked Codepen example.

$("#owl-example").owlCarousel({
  navigation: true,
  navigationText: ["<img src='myprevimage.png'>","<img src='mynextimage.png'>"]
});

> Assuming it's version 2:

https://owlcarousel2.github.io/OwlCarousel2/docs/api-options.html#nav

$("#owl-example").owlCarousel({
  nav: true,
  navText: ["<img src='myprevimage.png'>","<img src='mynextimage.png'>"]
});

---

Personal suggestion: Use Slick over Owl

Personal suggestion update: Tiny slider is great too.

Answer 6

In owl carousel 2 you can use font-awesome icons or any custom images in navText option like this:

$(".category-wrapper").owlCarousel({
     items: 4,
     loop: true,
     margin: 30,
     nav: true,
     smartSpeed: 900,
     navText: ["<i class='fa fa-chevron-left'></i>","<i class='fa fa-chevron-right'></i>"]
});