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Can't destroy slick - unslick function returns error

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I’m unable to destroy a slick instance. Calling $('.your-slider').unslick(); returns Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'parent' of null on line 575 of slick.js. It would appear $slides is undefined. Is anyone else seeing this issue?

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Created 9 years ago
Comments:59 (6 by maintainers)

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adamhughes86commented, Feb 12, 2015

Not sure if anyone is still looking at this but I was stuck on it for an hour. I realised I have either read the way you call methods wrong or it’s changed.

Instead of carousel.unslick(); you should use carousel.slick("unslick");

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wtrancommented, Sep 17, 2014

In my case I needed to destroy slick at a certain window size. This worked for me:

var $carousel = $('.carousel');

if (breakpoint === 'mobile') {
  if($carousel.hasClass('slick-initialized')) {
    $carousel.unslick();
  }
  $carousel.slick();
} else {
  $carousel.unslick();
}