Navs
Documentation and examples for how to use Bootstrap’s included navigation components.
Available styles #
Change the style of .navs component with
modifiers and utilities. Mix and match
as needed, or build your own.
Horizontal alignment #
Change the horizontal alignment of your nav with flexbox utilities . By default, navs are left-aligned, but you can easily change them to center or right aligned.
Centered with .justify-content-center:
<ul class="nav justify-content-center">
<li class="nav-item">
<a class="nav-link active" href="#">Active</a>
</li>
<li class="nav-item">
<a class="nav-link" href="#">Link</a>
</li>
<li class="nav-item">
<a class="nav-link" href="#">Link</a>
</li>
<li class="nav-item">
<a class="nav-link disabled" href="#">Disabled</a>
</li>
</ul>Right-aligned with .justify-content-end:
<ul class="nav justify-content-end">
<li class="nav-item">
<a class="nav-link active" href="#">Active</a>
</li>
<li class="nav-item">
<a class="nav-link" href="#">Link</a>
</li>
<li class="nav-item">
<a class="nav-link" href="#">Link</a>
</li>
<li class="nav-item">
<a class="nav-link disabled" href="#">Disabled</a>
</li>
</ul>Vertical #
Stack your navigation by changing the flex item direction with the .flex-column
utility. Need to stack them on some viewports but not others? Use the responsive
versions (e.g., .flex-sm-column).
<ul class="nav flex-column">
<li class="nav-item">
<a class="nav-link active" href="#">Active</a>
</li>
<li class="nav-item">
<a class="nav-link" href="#">Link</a>
</li>
<li class="nav-item">
<a class="nav-link" href="#">Link</a>
</li>
<li class="nav-item">
<a class="nav-link disabled" href="#">Disabled</a>
</li>
</ul>As always, vertical navigation is possible without <ul> s, too.
<nav class="nav flex-column">
<a class="nav-link active" href="#">Active</a>
<a class="nav-link" href="#">Link</a>
<a class="nav-link" href="#">Link</a>
<a class="nav-link disabled" href="#">Disabled</a>
</nav>Tabs #
Takes the basic nav from above and adds the .nav-tabs
class to generate a tabbed
interface.
<ul class="nav nav-tabs">
<li class="nav-item">
<a class="nav-link active" href="#">Active</a>
</li>
<li class="nav-item">
<a class="nav-link" href="#">Link</a>
</li>
<li class="nav-item">
<a class="nav-link" href="#">Link</a>
</li>
<li class="nav-item">
<a class="nav-link disabled" href="#">Disabled</a>
</li>
</ul>Pills #
Take that same HTML, but use .nav-pills
instead:
<ul class="nav nav-pills">
<li class="nav-item">
<a class="nav-link active" href="#">Active</a>
</li>
<li class="nav-item">
<a class="nav-link" href="#">Link</a>
</li>
<li class="nav-item">
<a class="nav-link" href="#">Link</a>
</li>
<li class="nav-item">
<a class="nav-link disabled" href="#">Disabled</a>
</li>
</ul>Classic #
Take that same HTML, but use .nav-classic
instead:
<ul class="nav nav-classic">
<li class="nav-item">
<a class="nav-link active" href="#">Active</a>
</li>
<li class="nav-item">
<a class="nav-link" href="#">Link</a>
</li>
<li class="nav-item">
<a class="nav-link" href="#">Link</a>
</li>
<li class="nav-item">
<a class="nav-link disabled" href="#">Disabled</a>
</li>
</ul>Disable the border wrapper with .nav-borderless class:
<ul class="nav nav-classic nav-borderless">
<li class="nav-item">
<a class="nav-link active" href="#">Active</a>
</li>
<li class="nav-item">
<a class="nav-link" href="#">Link</a>
</li>
<li class="nav-item">
<a class="nav-link" href="#">Link</a>
</li>
<li class="nav-item">
<a class="nav-link disabled" href="#">Disabled</a>
</li>
</ul>Fill and justify #
Force your .nav’s contents to extend the
full available width one of two modifier
classes. To proportionately fill all available space with your .nav-items, use
.nav-fill. Notice that all horizontal
space is occupied, but not every nav item
has the same width.
<ul class="nav nav-pills nav-fill">
<li class="nav-item">
<a class="nav-link active" href="#">Active</a>
</li>
<li class="nav-item">
<a class="nav-link" href="#">Link</a>
</li>
<li class="nav-item">
<a class="nav-link" href="#">Link</a>
</li>
<li class="nav-item">
<a class="nav-link disabled" href="#">Disabled</a>
</li>
</ul>When using a
<nav> -based navigation, be sure to
include .nav-item on the anchors.
<nav class="nav nav-pills nav-fill">
<a class="nav-item nav-link active" href="#">Active</a>
<a class="nav-item nav-link" href="#">Link</a>
<a class="nav-item nav-link" href="#">Link</a>
<a class="nav-item nav-link disabled" href="#">Disabled</a>
</nav>For equal-width elements, use .nav-justified. All horizontal space will
be
occupied by nav links, but unlike the .nav-fill above, every nav item will be
the same width.
<nav class="nav nav-pills nav-justified">
<a class="nav-link active" href="#">Active</a>
<a class="nav-link" href="#">Longer nav link</a>
<a class="nav-link" href="#">Link</a>
<a class="nav-link disabled" href="#">Disabled</a>
</nav>Similar to the .nav-fill example using a
<nav> -based navigation, be sure to
include .nav-item on the anchors.
<nav class="nav nav-pills nav-justified">
<a class="nav-item nav-link active" href="#">Active</a>
<a class="nav-item nav-link" href="#">Link</a>
<a class="nav-item nav-link" href="#">Link</a>
<a class="nav-item nav-link disabled" href="#">Disabled</a>
</nav>Working with flex utilities #
If you need responsive nav variations, consider using a series of flexbox utilities . While more verbose, these utilities offer greater customization across responsive breakpoints. In the example below, our nav will be stacked on the lowest breakpoint, then adapt to a horizontal layout that fills the available width starting from the small breakpoint.
<nav class="nav nav-pills flex-column flex-sm-row">
<a class="flex-sm-fill text-sm-center nav-link active" href="#">Active</a>
<a class="flex-sm-fill text-sm-center nav-link" href="#">Link</a>
<a class="flex-sm-fill text-sm-center nav-link" href="#">Link</a>
<a class="flex-sm-fill text-sm-center nav-link disabled" href="#">Disabled</a>
</nav>Regarding accessibility #
If you’re using navs to provide a navigation bar, be sure to add a
role="navigation" to the most logical
parent container of the
<ul> , or wrap a
<nav> element around the whole
navigation. Do not add the role to the
<ul> itself, as this would prevent
it from being announced as an actual list
by assistive technologies.
Note that navigation bars, even if visually styled as tabs with the .nav-tabs
class, should not be given role="tablist",
role="tab" or role="tabpanel"
attributes. These are only appropriate for dynamic tabbed interfaces, as
described in the WAI
ARIA Authoring Practices .