How to make Bootstrap carousel slider use mobile left/right swipe

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  <div class="col-md-4">
          <!--Carousel-->
          <div id="sidebar-carousel-1" class="carousel slide" data-ride="carousel">
            <ol class="carousel-indicators grey">
              <li data-target="#sidebar-carousel-1" data-slide-to="0" class="active"></li>
              <li data-target="#sidebar-carousel-1" data-slide-to="1"></li>
              <li data-target="#sidebar-carousel-1" data-slide-to="2"></li>
            </ol>
            <div class="carousel-inner">
              <div class="item active">
                <a href="" data-lightbox="image-1" title="">
                <img src="http://shrani.si/f/3D/13b/1rt3lPab/2/img1.jpg" alt="...">
                </a>
              </div>
              <div class="item">
                <a href="" data-lightbox="image-1" title="">
                <img src="http://shrani.si/f/S/jE/UcTuhZ6/1/img2.jpg" alt="...">
                </a>                  </div>
              <div class="item">
                <a href="" data-lightbox="image-1" title="">
                <img src="http://shrani.si/f/h/To/1yjUEZbP/img3.jpg" alt="...">
                </a>                  </div>
            </div>
             <!-- Controls -->
        <a class="left carousel-control" href="#sidebar-carousel-1" data-slide="prev">
          <span class="glyphicon glyphicon-chevron-left"></span>
        </a>
        <a class="right carousel-control" href="#sidebar-carousel-1" data-slide="next">
          <span class="glyphicon glyphicon-chevron-right"></span>
        </a>
                  </div><!--/Carousel--></div>

What I want to do is to add left/right touch swipe functionality for mobile devices only. How can I do that?

Also, how do I make prev/next buttons, that appear on hover, smaller for mobile/ipad versions?

Thanks

I'm a bit late to the party, but here's a bit of jQuery I've been using:

$('.carousel').on('touchstart', function(event){
	const xClick = event.originalEvent.touches[0].pageX;
	$(this).one('touchmove', function(event){
		const xMove = event.originalEvent.touches[0].pageX;
        const sensitivityInPx = 5;

		if( Math.floor(xClick - xMove) > sensitivityInPx ){
		    $(this).carousel('next');
        }
		else if( Math.floor(xClick - xMove) < -sensitivityInPx ){
			$(this).carousel('prev');
        }
	});
	$(this).on('touchend', function(){
		$(this).off('touchmove');
	});
});

No need for jQuery mobile or any other plugins. If you need to adjust the sensitivity of the swipe adjust the 5 and -5. Hope this helps someone.

I needed to add this functionality to a project I was working on recently and adding jQuery Mobile just to solve this problem seemed like overkill, so I came up with a solution and put it on github: bcSwipe (Bootstrap Carousel Swipe).

It's a lightweight jQuery plugin (~600 bytes minified vs jQuery Mobile touch events at 8kb), and it's been tested on Android and iOS.

This is how you use it:

$('.carousel').bcSwipe({ threshold: 50 });

UPDATE:

I came up with this solution when I was pretty new to web design. Now that I am older and wiser, the answer Liam gave seems to be a better option. See the next top answer; it is a more productive solution.

I worked on a project recently and this example worked perfectly. I am giving you the link below.

First you have to add jQuery mobile:

http://jquerymobile.com/

This adds the touch functionality, and then you just have to make events such as swipe:

<script>
$(document).ready(function() {
   $("#myCarousel").swiperight(function() {
      $(this).carousel('prev');
    });
   $("#myCarousel").swipeleft(function() {
      $(this).carousel('next');
   });
});
</script>

The link is below, where you can find the tutorial I used:

http://lazcreative.com/blog/how-to/how-to-adding-swipe-support-to-bootstraps-carousel/

With bootstrap 4.2 its now very easy, you just need to pass the touch option in the carousel div as data-touch="true", as it accepts Boolean value only.

As in your case update bootstrap to 4.2 and paste(Or download source files) the following in exact order :

    <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.3.1/css/bootstrap.min.css" integrity="sha384-ggOyR0iXCbMQv3Xipma34MD+dH/1fQ784/j6cY/iJTQUOhcWr7x9JvoRxT2MZw1T" crossorigin="anonymous">
    <script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.3.1.slim.min.js" integrity="sha384-q8i/X+965DzO0rT7abK41JStQIAqVgRVzpbzo5smXKp4YfRvH+8abtTE1Pi6jizo" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
    <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/popper.js/1.14.7/umd/popper.min.js" integrity="sha384-UO2eT0CpHqdSJQ6hJty5KVphtPhzWj9WO1clHTMGa3JDZwrnQq4sF86dIHNDz0W1" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
    <script src="https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.3.1/js/bootstrap.min.js" integrity="sha384-JjSmVgyd0p3pXB1rRibZUAYoIIy6OrQ6VrjIEaFf/nJGzIxFDsf4x0xIM+B07jRM" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>

and then add the touch option in your bootstrap carousel div

    <div id="sidebar-carousel-1" class="carousel slide" data-ride="carousel" data-touch="true">

See this solution: Bootstrap TouchCarousel. A drop-in perfection for Twitter Bootstrap's Carousel (v3) to enable gestures on touch devices. http://ixisio.github.io/bootstrap-touch-carousel/

If you don't want to use jQuery mobile as like me. You can use Hammer.js

It's mostly like jQuery Mobile without unnecessary code.

$(document).ready(function() {
  Hammer(myCarousel).on("swipeleft", function(){
    $(this).carousel('next');
  });
  Hammer(myCarousel).on("swiperight", function(){
    $(this).carousel('prev');
  });
});

Checked solution is not accurate, sometimes mouse-right-click triggers right-swipe. after trying different plugins for swipe i found an almost perfect one.

touchSwipe

i said "almost" because this plugin does not support future elements. so we would have to reinitialize the swipe call when the swipe content is changed by ajax or something. this plugin have lots of options to play with touch events like multi-finger-touch,pinch etc.

http://labs.rampinteractive.co.uk/touchSwipe/demos/index.html

solution 1 :

$("#myCarousel").swipe( {
            swipe:function(event, direction, distance, duration, fingerCount, fingerData) {

                if(direction=='left'){
                    $(this).carousel('next');
                }else if(direction=='right'){
                    $(this).carousel('prev');
                }

            }
        });

solution 2:(for future element case)

function addSwipeTo(selector){
            $(selector).swipe("destroy");
            $(selector).swipe( {
                swipe:function(event, direction, distance, duration, fingerCount, fingerData) {
                    if(direction=='left'){
                        $(this).carousel('next');
                    }else if(direction=='right'){
                        $(this).carousel('prev');
                    }
                }
            });
}
addSwipeTo("#myCarousel");

For anyone finding this, swipe on carousel appears to be native as of about 5 days ago (20 Oct 2018) as per
https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/pull/25776

https://deploy-preview-25776--twbs-bootstrap4.netlify.com/docs/4.1/components/carousel/

Same functionality I prefer than using much heavy jQuery mobile is Carousel Swipe. I suggest directly jump in to source code on github, and copy file carousel-swipe.js in to your project directory.

Use swiper events as bellow:

$('#carousel-example-generic').carousel({
      interval: false 
  });

If anyone is looking for the angular version of this answer then I would suggest creating a directive would be a great idea.

NOTE: ngx-bootstrap is used.

import { Directive, Host, Self, Optional, Input, Renderer2, OnInit, ElementRef } from '@angular/core';
import { CarouselComponent } from 'ngx-bootstrap/carousel';

@Directive({
  selector: '[appCarouselSwipe]'
})
export class AppCarouselSwipeDirective implements OnInit {
  @Input() swipeThreshold = 50;
  private start: number;
  private stillMoving: boolean;
  private moveListener: Function;

  constructor(
    @Host() @Self() @Optional() private carousel: CarouselComponent,
    private renderer: Renderer2,
    private element: ElementRef
  ) {
  }

  ngOnInit(): void {
    if ('ontouchstart' in document.documentElement) {
      this.renderer.listen(this.element.nativeElement, 'touchstart', this.onTouchStart.bind(this));
      this.renderer.listen(this.element.nativeElement, 'touchend', this.onTouchEnd.bind(this));
    }
  }

  private onTouchStart(e: TouchEvent): void {
    if (e.touches.length === 1) {
      this.start = e.touches[0].pageX;
      this.stillMoving = true;
      this.moveListener = this.renderer.listen(this.element.nativeElement, 'touchmove', this.onTouchMove.bind(this));
    }
  }

  private onTouchMove(e: TouchEvent): void {
    if (this.stillMoving) {
      const x = e.touches[0].pageX;
      const difference = this.start - x;
      if (Math.abs(difference) >= this.swipeThreshold) {
        this.cancelTouch();
        if (difference > 0) {
          if (this.carousel.activeSlide < this.carousel.slides.length - 1) {
            this.carousel.activeSlide = this.carousel.activeSlide + 1;
          }
        } else {
          if (this.carousel.activeSlide > 0) {
            this.carousel.activeSlide = this.carousel.activeSlide - 1;
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }

  private onTouchEnd(e: TouchEvent): void {
    this.cancelTouch();
  }

  private cancelTouch() {
    if (this.moveListener) {
      this.moveListener();
      this.moveListener = undefined;
    }
    this.start = null;
    this.stillMoving = false;
  }
}

in html:

<carousel appCarouselSwipe>

    ...

</carousel>

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