Getting Index of Current Item in JCarousel

Question

I am attempting to get the index of the current item in a JCarousel so that I can display the current position within the Carousel to the user. For example, \'13/20\'.

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Answer 1

You can hook into the 'jcarousel:animate' event, and grab the current slide as a jQuery Object.

$('#mycarousel').on('jcarousel:animate', function(event, carousel) {
  console.log(carousel._target); // this outputs your current slide as jQuery object.
});