Text only carousel

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

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Also see: Vertically center text in Bootstrap carousel