I am unable to have a carousel with only text without any img. The text seems to be colliding with the controls. Every example I've found uses the <img>. I have tried to use d-flex class, block and even the carousel-caption. Nothing has worked so far.
<div id="carouselContent" class="carousel slide" data-ride="carousel">
<div class="carousel-inner" role="listbox">
<div class="carousel-item active">
<p>lorem ipsum (imagine longer text)</p>
</div>
<div class="carousel-item">
<p>lorem ipsum (imagine longer text)</p>
</div>
</div>
<a class="carousel-control-prev" href="#carouselContent" role="button" data-slide="prev">
<span class="carousel-control-prev-icon" aria-hidden="true"></span>
<span class="sr-only">Previous</span>
</a>
<a class="carousel-control-next" href="#carouselContent" role="button" data-slide="next">
<span class="carousel-control-next-icon" aria-hidden="true"></span>
<span class="sr-only">Next</span>
</a>
</div>
I think the carousel-controls are designed to overlay the content, whether it's text or images. It would seem that text-center would be a good option to center the text of each item.
However, as of BS alpha 6, the .carousel-item is display:flex; which limits some of the positioning you can do with the contents of carousel-item. There is an open issue for this:
https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/issues/21611
As a workaround, you could use text-center and override display:block for the active carousel item:
<div class="carousel-item text-center p-4">
<p>lorem ipsum (imagine longer text)</p>
</div>
.carousel-item.active {
display:block;
}
Demo: http://www.codeply.com/go/OJHdvdXimm