Disabling Owl Carousel at a specific viewport width

abbas_arezoo picture abbas_arezoo · Jan 31, 2015 · Viewed 32.9k times · Source

I'm currently using Owl Carousel to show a gallery on desktop/laptop sized devices. However on smaller devices I'd like to disable the plugin and show each image stacked underneath one another.

Is this possible? I'm aware you can tweak Owl Carousel to show a certain number of images on screen at certain breakpoints. But I would like to be able to turn it off completely, removing all the divs etc.

Here's a pen of what i'm currently working with at the moment: http://codepen.io/abbasinho/pen/razXdN

HTML:

<div id="carousel">
  <div class="carousel-item" style="background-image: url(http://owlgraphic.com/owlcarousel/demos/assets/owl1.jpg);">
  </div>
  <div class="carousel-item" style="background-image: url(http://owlgraphic.com/owlcarousel/demos/assets/owl2.jpg);">
  </div>
  <div class="carousel-item" style="background-image: url(http://owlgraphic.com/owlcarousel/demos/assets/owl3.jpg);">
  </div>
</div>

CSS:

#carousel {
  width: 100%;
  height: 500px;
}

.carousel-item {
  width: 100%;
  height: 500px;
  background-size: cover;
  background-repeat: no-repeat;
  background-position: center center;
}

jQuery:

$("#carousel").owlCarousel({
      navigation : true,
      slideSpeed : 300,
      paginationSpeed : 400,
      singleItem: true
});

Any help is gratefully received as ever!

Answer

mcmimik picture mcmimik · Oct 18, 2015

I had to disable plugin if the screen width is bigger than 854px. Sure, you can change the code to fit your needs. Here is my solution:

  1. Check the viewport width before call the plugin.
  2. If width is good to call the plugin, call the plugin. Else add the 'off' class to show as if the plugin has already been called and destroyed.
  3. When resizing:
    3.1. If width is good to call the plugin AND the plugin hasn't been called yet or it was destroyed earlier (I use the 'off' class to know it), THEN call the plugin.
    3.2. if width isn't good to call the plugin AND the plugin is active now, THEN destroy it with Owl's trigger event destroy.owl.carousel and remove the unnecessary wrapper element 'owl-stage-outer' after it.
$(function() {
    var owl = $('.owl-carousel'),
        owlOptions = {
            loop: false,
            margin: 10,
            responsive: {
                0: {
                    items: 2
                }
            }
        };

    if ( $(window).width() < 854 ) {
        var owlActive = owl.owlCarousel(owlOptions);
    } else {
        owl.addClass('off');
    }

    $(window).resize(function() {
        if ( $(window).width() < 854 ) {
            if ( $('.owl-carousel').hasClass('off') ) {
                var owlActive = owl.owlCarousel(owlOptions);
                owl.removeClass('off');
            }
        } else {
            if ( !$('.owl-carousel').hasClass('off') ) {
                owl.addClass('off').trigger('destroy.owl.carousel');
                owl.find('.owl-stage-outer').children(':eq(0)').unwrap();
            }
        }
    });
});

And a bit of CSS to show disabled Owl element:

.owl-carousel.off {
    display: block;
}