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?

Solution 1

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.

Solution 2

If you want to use your own custom navigation elements,

For Owl Carousel 1

var owl = $('.owl-carousel');
owl.owlCarousel();
// Go to the next item
$('.customNextBtn').click(function() {
    owl.trigger('owl.prev');
})
// Go to the previous item
$('.customPrevBtn').click(function() {
    owl.trigger('owl.next');
})

For Owl Carousel 2

var owl = $('.owl-carousel');
owl.owlCarousel();
// Go to the next item
$('.customNextBtn').click(function() {
    owl.trigger('next.owl.carousel');
})
// Go to the previous item
$('.customPrevBtn').click(function() {
    // With optional speed parameter
    // Parameters has to be in square bracket '[]'
    owl.trigger('prev.owl.carousel', [300]);
})

Solution 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')]
 
});

Solution 4

I did it with css, ie: adding classes for arrows, but you can use images as well.

Bellow is an example with fontAwesome:

JS:

owl.owlCarousel({
    ...
    // should be empty otherwise you'll still see prev and next text,
    // which is defined in js
    navText : ["",""],
    rewindNav : true,
    ...
});

CSS

.owl-carousel .owl-nav .owl-prev,
  .owl-carousel .owl-nav .owl-next,
  .owl-carousel .owl-dot {
    font-family: 'fontAwesome';

}
.owl-carousel .owl-nav .owl-prev:before{
    // fa-chevron-left
    content: "\f053";
    margin-right:10px;
}
.owl-carousel .owl-nav .owl-next:after{
    //fa-chevron-right
    content: "\f054";
    margin-right:10px;
}

Using images:

.owl-carousel .owl-nav .owl-prev,
  .owl-carousel .owl-nav .owl-next,
  .owl-carousel .owl-dot {
    //width, height
    width:30px;
    height:30px;
    ...
}
.owl-carousel .owl-nav .owl-prev{
    background: url('left-icon.png') no-repeat;
}
.owl-carousel .owl-nav .owl-next{
    background: url('right-icon.png') no-repeat;
}

Maybe someone will find this helpful :)

Solution 5

The following code works for me on owl carousel .

https://github.com/OwlFonk/OwlCarousel

$(".owl-carousel").owlCarousel({
    items: 1,
    autoplay: true,
    navigation: true,
    navigationText: ["<i class='fa fa-angle-left'></i>", "<i class='fa fa-angle-right'></i>"]
});

For OwlCarousel2

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

 $(".owl-carousel").owlCarousel({
    items: 1,
    autoplay: true,
    nav: true,
    navText: ["<i class='fa fa-angle-left'></i>", "<i class='fa fa-angle-right'></i>"]
});

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