Codeigniter 3.1.0 & Bootstrap Pagination Links
<p>On my codeigniter pagination links I am using bootstrap 3 + </p>

<p>When I am on the very first link it hides the &lt;&lt; which goes back to start when I click on it.</p>

<pre><code>1 2 &gt;&gt;
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  <p><strong>Question</strong> How can I make the codeigniter pagination all ways display <code>&lt;&lt;</code>   <code>&gt;&gt;</code> I have tried <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16027480/always-show-previous-next-links-using-codeigniter-pagination-class">Always show Previous &amp; Next links using CodeIgniter Pagination Class</a> but is for CI2 </p>
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<pre><code>$config['base_url'] = base_url('forum/?fid=' . $this-&gt;input-&gt;get('fid') . $url);
$config['total_rows'] = $this-&gt;thread_model-&gt;total_threads($this-&gt;input-&gt;get('fid'));
$config['per_page'] = $this-&gt;config-&gt;item('config_limit_admin');
$config['page_query_string'] = TRUE;

$config["full_tag_open"] = '&lt;ul class="pagination"&gt;';
$config["full_tag_close"] = '&lt;/ul&gt;';    
$config["first_link"] = "&amp;laquo;";
$config["first_tag_open"] = "&lt;li&gt;";
$config["first_tag_close"] = "&lt;/li&gt;";
$config["last_link"] = "&amp;raquo;";
$config["last_tag_open"] = "&lt;li&gt;";
$config["last_tag_close"] = "&lt;/li&gt;";
$config['next_link'] = '&amp;raquo;';
$config['next_tag_open'] = '&lt;li&gt;';
$config['next_tag_close'] = '&lt;li&gt;';
$config['prev_link'] = '&amp;laquo;';
$config['prev_tag_open'] = '&lt;li&gt;';
$config['prev_tag_close'] = '&lt;li&gt;';
$config['cur_tag_open'] = '&lt;li class="active"&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt;';
$config['cur_tag_close'] = '&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;';
$config['num_tag_open'] = '&lt;li&gt;';
$config['num_tag_close'] = '&lt;/li&gt;';

$this-&gt;pagination-&gt;initialize($config);

$data['pagination'] = $this-&gt;pagination-&gt;create_links();
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