[jquery] Owl Carousel, making custom navigation

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?

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]);
})

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"; }
    }

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);

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>"]
});

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">_x000D_
      <div class="single_img"><img src="1.png" alt=""></div>_x000D_
      <div class="single_img"><img src="2.png" alt=""></div>_x000D_
      <div class="single_img"><img src="3.png" alt=""></div>_x000D_
      <div class="single_img"><img src="4.png" alt=""></div>_x000D_
</div>_x000D_
  _x000D_
<div class="slider_nav">_x000D_
 <button class="am-next">Next</button>_x000D_
 <button class="am-prev">Previous</button>_x000D_
</div>

In your js file you can do the following:

 $(".owl-carousel").owlCarousel({_x000D_
    // you can use jQuery selector_x000D_
    navText: [$('.am-next'),$('.am-prev')]_x000D_
 _x000D_
});

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>"]
});

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;
}   

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 :)