Question

The Bootstrap carousel is a strange beast. I’ve tried tweaking $next to prevent infinite looping but end up either breaking it or preventing the slides from going backwards when reaching the end.

I would like the carousel to only slide within the list and not infinitely loop.

Any help would be appreciated.

$next = $next.length ? $next : this.$element.find('.item')[fallback]()
if ($next.hasClass('active')) return
if ($.support.transition && this.$element.hasClass('slide')) {
    this.$element.trigger(e)
    if (e.isDefaultPrevented()) return
    $next.addClass(type)
    $next[0].offsetWidth // force reflow
    $active.addClass(direction)
    $next.addClass(direction)
    this.$element.one($.support.transition.end, function() {
        $next.removeClass([type, direction].join(' ')).addClass('active')
        $active.removeClass(['active', direction].join(' '))
        that.sliding = false
        setTimeout(function() {
            that.$element.trigger('slid')
        }, 0)
    })
} else {
    this.$element.trigger(e)
    if (e.isDefaultPrevented()) return
    $active.removeClass('active')
    $next.addClass('active')
    this.sliding = false
    this.$element.trigger('slid')
}

Update: This is unrelated to “autoplay” I’m specifically referring to manually pressing the left and right buttons.

Answer 1

You could just add some code to the page to hide the appropriate carousel controls after a slid event:

$('#myCarousel').on('slid', '', function() {
  var $this = $(this);

  $this.children('.carousel-control').show();

  if($('.carousel-inner .item:first').hasClass('active')) {
    $this.children('.left.carousel-control').hide();
  } else if($('.carousel-inner .item:last').hasClass('active')) {
    $this.children('.right.carousel-control').hide();
  }

});

This example assumes the markup used on the Twitter Bootstrap example carousel.

Make sure to hide the left one when you open the page.