owl carousel flashing on page load

Question

I have several owl carousels running. When it first loads the carousel flashes at full width until the jquery kicks in and then resizes everything. Is there anyway to stop this? Here's my code:

Html

 <?php $k='1'; do { ?>
 <div id="owlslide<?php echo $k;?>">
     <?php do { ?>
       <div class="owlItem ">
         <-- some other stuff -->
       </div>
     <?php  } while();?>
 </div>
 <?php $i++; } while();?>

Jquery (owl)

 $(document).ready(function(){
<?php $i='1'; do { ?>
 $("#owlslide<?php echo $i;?>").owlCarousel({
  autoPlay: false, //Set AutoPlay to 3 seconds
  paginationNumbers: true,
   itemsCustom : [
    [0, 1],
    [450, 1],
    [600, 2],
    [700, 2],
    [1000, 3],
    [1200, 4],
    [1400, 4],
    [1600, 5]
  ],        
  });
<?php $i++; }while($cara = mysql_fetch_assoc($catCara)); ?>

});

Answer 1

You can hide the carousel items with display: none; in your CSS, then show them after the carousel has initialized by binding a handler to the initialized.owl.carousel event. I find it's best to combine it with a placeholder that has a loader gif to further reduce page jump.

var carousel = $('#owlslide');
carousel.on({

    'initialized.owl.carousel': function () {
         carousel.find('.item').show();
         carousel.find('.loading-placeholder').hide();
    }

}).owlCarousel(options);

Note that you have to bind the handler before you initialize the carousel.