Using bootstrap.js version 2.02
I'm trying to get the Twitter Bootstrap Carousel to automatically cycle as soon as someone visits my site. Right now, the auto cycling works only after you click one of the cycle buttons at least once.
I want the carousel to begin cycling at the interval right away.
Does anyone know how to do this?
My site is hotairraccoon.com
You'll see how after you click the carousel once, it begins to cycle every 5 seconds or so, but I don't want the click to be required to reveal carousel content.
Thanks!
You can simply use the data-interval attribute of the carousel class. It's default value is set to data-interval="3000" i.e 3seconds. All you need to do is set it to your desired requirements.
The Data-interval attribute is used to set the interval time between two carousel item by default its value is 3000 milliseconds.
Via data attributes The data-ride="carousel" attribute is used to mark a carousel as animating starting at page load.
Note: As mentioned in the comments this solution will work correctly for Bootstrap 2. Refer to MattZ's answer for instructions on how to accomplish the same behavior on Bootstrap 3.
I had the same issue as you and all I had to do to fix it was call the carousel('cycle') method after I had initialized the carousel:
<script type="text/javascript"> $(document).ready(function () { $('.carousel').carousel({ interval: 3000 }); $('.carousel').carousel('cycle'); }); </script>
I realize this question is old but I was googling tonight trying to figure it out myself and saw noone had properly answered it. Top voted answer will not automatically start the carousel, it will only cycle once a button has been pressed which is not what the OP was looking for.
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