margin-top for carousel indicator not working bootstrap - html

Question

I made a carousel with bootstrap 4 like the following:
{% if events %}
<div class="text-center my-3">
<h3 class="font-weight-bold pb-4 mb-0 text-center">Events</h3>
<div class="carousel slide my-4" data-interval="false" id="carousel-1">
<div class="carousel-inner">
{% for item in events %}
<div
{% if forloop.counter0 == 0 %}
class="carousel-item active "
{% else %}
class="carousel-item "
{% endif %}>
<div class="row">
<div class="col-xs-12 col-sm-12 col-md-5 col-lg-5 col-xl-5 ml-auto">
<div class="text-right ">
<a class="text-dark" href="{% url 'events' %}">
<div>
<h3 class="text-dark" >{{ item.title }}</h3>
<p class="text-dark" style="color: #F4F4F4;" > {{item.date}} </p>
<p class="text-dark" > {{item.description|safe}} </p>
</div>
</a>
</div>
</div>
<div class="col-xs-12 col-sm-12 col-md-5 col-lg-5 col-xl-5 mr-auto">
<img class="img-fluid text-center" style="max-height: 25vh;" src="{{ item.cover.url }}" alt="image cap">
</div>
</div>
</div>
{% endfor %}
</div>
<div>
<a class="carousel-control-prev" href="#carousel-1" role="button" data-slide="prev">
<span class="carousel-control-prev-icon" aria-hidden="true"><i class="text-dark fas fa-chevron-left"></i></span>
<span class="sr-only">Previous</span>
</a>
<a class="carousel-control-next" href="#carousel-1" role="button" data-slide="next">
<span class="carousel-control-next-icon" aria-hidden="true"><i class="text-dark fas fa-chevron-right"></i></span>
<span class="sr-only">Next</span>
</a>
</div>
<ol class="carousel-indicators">
{% for item in events %}
<li data-target="#carousel-1" data-slide-to="{{ forloop.counter0 }}"
{% if forloop.counter0 == 0 %}
class="active text-dark"
{% else %}
class="text-dark"
{% endif %}
></li>
{% endfor%}
</ol>
</div>
</div>
{% endif %}
I want the carousel-indicator to have a top margin so that it doesn't overlap over the content. since I'm not showing images, the indicators are not suitable if they lay over the content.
I added
<style>
.carousel-indicators{
margin-top: 50px;
}
</style>
but it is not working.
I also tried to add margin-top to bootstrap.min.css, but it didn't work either.
any ideas?

Answer 1

The .carousel-indicators element is absolute positioned at the bottom of the .carousel so top margin will do nothing. Instead override the bottom value of 0 with a negative value to move it below the .carousel
.carousel-indicators{
bottom: -50px;
}