Add custom buttons on Slick Carousel

Question

How do I apply custom prev and next buttons to slick carousel? I have tried a background image on the .slick-prev and .slick-next css classes. I ha

Answer 1

If you are using sass you can simply set below mentioned variables to use icons provided by other fonts,

$slick-font-family:FontAwesome;
$slick-prev-character: "\f053";
$slick-next-character: "\f054";

These will change the font family used by slick's theme css and also the unicode for prev and next button. This example will use FontAwesome's chevron-left and chevron-right icons.

Other sass variables which can be configured are given in Slick Github page

Answer 2

That's because they use an icon font for the buttons. They use "Slick" font as you can see in this image:

Basically, the make the letter "A" the form of an icon, the letter "B" the form of another one and so on.

For example:

If you want to know more about icon fonts click here

If you want to change the icons, you need to replace the whole button code or you can go to www.fontastic.me and create your own icon font. After that, replace the font file for the current one and you'll have your own icon.

Answer 3

If you're using Bootstrap 3, you can use the Glyphicons.

.slick-prev:before, .slick-next:before {
    font-family: "Glyphicons Halflings", "slick", sans-serif;
    font-size: 40px;
}

.slick-prev:before { content: "\e257"; }
.slick-next:before { content: "\e258"; }

Answer 4

its very easy. Use the bellow code, Its works for me. Here I have used fontawesome icon but you can use anything as image or any other Icon's code.

$(document).ready(function(){
    $('.slider').slick({
        autoplay:true,
        arrows: true,
        prevArrow:"<button type='button' class='slick-prev pull-left'><i class='fa fa-angle-left' aria-hidden='true'></i></button>",
        nextArrow:"<button type='button' class='slick-next pull-right'><i class='fa fa-angle-right' aria-hidden='true'></i></button>"
    });
});

Answer 5

I know this is an old question, but maybe I can be of help to someone, bc this also stumped me until I read the documentation a bit more:

prevArrow string (html|jQuery selector) | object (DOM node|jQuery object) Previous Allows you to select a node or customize the HTML for the "Previous" arrow.

nextArrow string (html|jQuery selector) | object (DOM node|jQuery object) Next Allows you to select a node or customize the HTML for the "Next" arrow.

this is how i changed my buttons.. worked perfectly.

  $('.carousel-content').slick({
      prevArrow:"<img class='a-left control-c prev slick-prev' src='../images/shoe_story/arrow-left.png'>",
      nextArrow:"<img class='a-right control-c next slick-next' src='../images/shoe_story/arrow-right.png'>"
  });

Answer 6

if you want to use icons from any icon font library, you can try this in the option while calling the slider in your js file.

prevArrow: '<div class="class-to-style"><span class="fa fa-angle-left"></span><span class="sr-only">Prev</span></div>',

nextArrow: '<div class="class-to-style"><span class="fa fa-angle-right"></span><span class="sr-only">Next</span></div>'

Here "fa" comes from FontAwesome icon font library.