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How to position carousel indicators in Bootstrap 4


I am trying to move the indicators under the slider image by giving .carousel-indicators a bottom: -50px; but the indicators just disappear. Now I am guessing this has something to do with the overflow:hidden of the slider but I can't figure it out.

Here is my code:

<div id="slider" class="carousel slide" data-ride="carousel">
    <ol class="carousel-indicators">
        <li data-target="#slider" data-slide-to="0" class="active"></li>
        <li data-target="#slider" data-slide-to="1"></li>
        <li data-target="#slider" data-slide-to="2"></li>
        <li data-target="#slider" data-slide-to="3"></li>
        <li data-target="#slider" data-slide-to="4"></li>
    </ol>

    <div class="carousel-inner">
        <div class="carousel-item active">
            <img class="d-block w-100" src="header.jpg">
        </div>
        <div class="carousel-item">
            <img class="d-block w-100" src="slider2.jpg">
        </div>
        <div class="carousel-item">
            <img class="d-block w-100" src="slider3.jpg">
        </div>
        <div class="carousel-item">
            <img class="d-block w-100" src="slider4.jpeg">
        </div>
        <div class="carousel-item">
            <img class="d-block w-100" src="slider5.jpeg">
        </div>
    </div>
</div>

and CSS here:

#slider {
    height: 350px;
    overflow: hidden;
    width: 100%;
}
.carousel-indicators li {
    width: 10px;
    height: 10px;
    border-radius: 100%;
}
.carousel-indicators {
    bottom: -50px;
}

Solution

  • Setting bottom: -50px on .carousel-indicators works fine to move the indicators below the carousel, however the result is not visible because of the overflow: hidden, as you suspected correctly. The indicators are simply clipped, as they get out of the bounding box of the carousel.

    Instead of setting the height and the overflow property of the #slider itself, I would suggest to fix the height via the .carousel-item class like as follows:

    .carousel-item {
        height: 350px;
    }
    
    .carousel-indicators li {
        width: 10px;
        height: 10px;
        border-radius: 100%;
    }
    .carousel-indicators {
        bottom: -50px;
    }
    

    This is not interfering with the positioning of the indicators.

    A working example is available as a Codepen.