Owl Carousel 2 Nav on Sides

Question

Hi I'm using Owl Carousel version 2 and can't find an example to put the navigation on the sides of the carousel like right and left chevrons or arrows. How do you do it?

Answer 1

I just did this yesterday:)

Firstly make sure nav is turned on in the config

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

   $('#_samewidth_images').owlCarousel({
      margin:10,
      autoWidth:false,
      nav:true,
      items:4,
      navText : ['<i class="fa fa-angle-left" aria-hidden="true"></i>','<i class="fa fa-angle-right" aria-hidden="true"></i>']
  })

This will inject the controls into the DOM, see

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

<div class="owl-carousel owl-theme owl-loaded">
    <div class="owl-stage-outer">
        <div class="owl-stage">
            <div class="owl-item">...</div>
            <div class="owl-item">...</div>
            <div class="owl-item">...</div>
        </div>
    </div>
    <div class="owl-controls">
        <div class="owl-nav">
            <div class="owl-prev">prev</div>
            <div class="owl-next">next</div>
        </div>
        <div class="owl-dots">
            <div class="owl-dot active"><span></span></div>
            <div class="owl-dot"><span></span></div>
            <div class="owl-dot"><span></span></div>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>

Next use CSS to position the Next and Prev controls, this is what I used:

.owl-prev {
    width: 15px;
    height: 100px;
    position: absolute;
    top: 40%;
    margin-left: -20px;
    display: block !important;
    border:0px solid black;
}

.owl-next {
    width: 15px;
    height: 100px;
    position: absolute;
    top: 40%;
    right: -25px;
    display: block !important;
    border:0px solid black;
}
.owl-prev i, .owl-next i {transform : scale(1,6); color: #ccc;}

For my icons I used Font Awesome but you could use anything similar. Note the navText in the javascript code, this is where you put your custom HTML. I guess you could use an image too (or put it in the background of the .owl-next and .owl-prev divs. Note I used transform to make my arrows higher.