Slick slider custom dots

Question

I was wondering if there is a way to use custom slick slider dots. When I search, all I can finds is examples on how to change the dots into thumbnails from the slides, however this is not what I'm trying to accomplish. I just want to use my own png pictures for the active and non-active dot navigation. I tried this:

    $('.slick-dots li').html('<a href="#"><img src="slide-dot.png" /></a>');
    $('.slick-dots li.slick-active').html('<a href="#"><img src="slide-dot-active.png" /></a>');

But that didn't work, though I recall I did something like that before. Am I missing something here ?

Thanks!

Answer 1

This can be done when initializing slick as one of the options:

JS

$(".slider").slick({
    dots: true,
    customPaging : function(slider, i) {
        return '<a href="#"><img src="slide-dot.png" /><img src="slide-dot-active.png" /></a>';
    },
});

Then you can display the image you want based on the active state with CSS

<!-- language: lang-css -->

.slick-dots li img:nth-child(1) {
    display: block;
}

.slick-dots li img:nth-child(2) {
    display: none;
}

.slick-dots li.slick-active img:nth-child(1) {
    display: none;
}

.slick-dots li.slick-active img:nth-child(2) {
    display: block;
}