JSFiddle - React, Tailwind, and code Playground
HTML
<link rel="stylesheet" href="//netdna.bootstrapcdn.com/twitter-bootstrap/2.3.2/css/bootstrap-combined.min.css">
<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.10.0.min.js"></script>
<script src="http://netdna.bootstrapcdn.com/twitter-bootstrap/2.3.2/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
<div id="content" class="carousel slide" data-interval="false">
<div class="carousel-inner">
<div class="item active">Slide 1</div>
<div class="item">Slide 2</div>
<div class="item">Slide 3</div>
</div>
<a class="carousel-control left" href="#content" data-slide="prev">‹</a>
<a class="carousel-control right" href="#content" data-slide="next">›</a>
</div>
<a href="" class="clicky">clicky</a>
<p>xxx</p>
CSS
.item {
background-color: grey;
height: 150px;
}
JavaScript
$('.clicky').click(function speel() {
$('#content').carousel(1);
return false;
});