Does Owl Carousel Really Work without a fixed width? - twitter-bootstrap-3

Question

I have been using owl carousel 1.3 on pages that generally have a wrapper container that sets the width to 1200px.
I started to build responsive sites and don't use a fixed width on any wrappers now, i am also using version 2 of Owl.
I am using the bootstrap grid layout and trying to make my owl carousel responsive. However i can't get this to work and it seems it only works if you set a width on a parent div.
For example if i have this:
<div class="container-fluid">
<div class="row">
<div class="col-md-8">
<div class="owl-carousel">
<div><h2>Item 1</h2></div>
<div><h2>Item 2</h2></div>
<div><h2>Item 3</h2></div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="col-md-4">
<h2> Just a right hand panel</h2>
</div>
</div>
</div>
The owl slider will take up 100% of the screen width, it will ignore the col-md-8 width of 66% so i end up with a broken layout.
Is owl carousel truly responsive or do you have to fix a width to it for it to work?

Answer 1

I know this is old problem but i sloved it with wrapper and little jQ code.
Owl-carousel doesnt support bootstrap class "container-fuild", and when you use this class for owl, will crash width of your page so you need to set width of the wrapper.
Remember add resize event.
My HTML ( div with class owl-wrapper used in jQ ):
<section class="container-fluid">
<div class="owl-wrapper">
<div class="row">
<div class="col-md-8">
<div class="owl-carousel owl-theme ">
<div class="item"></div>
<div class="item"></div>
<div class="item"></div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</section>
jQuery file:
$(document).ready(function($){
var windowWidth = $( window ).width();
$('.owl-wrapper').css('width', windowWidth);
$('.owl-carousel').owlCarousel({
loop:true
});
});

Answer 2

Try putting min-width : 100% on the parent container.