Hello all :)
This is my first official blog post here as an aspiring front-end dev.
Today's topic is on how to position any number of nav-items in a Bootstrap navbar (within the ul) using Flexbox which is already enabled in Boostrap.
Let's start with the code required for the full navbar first.
<nav class="navbar navbar-expand-lg navbar-light bg-light">
<a class="navbar-brand" href="#">Navbar</a>
<button class="navbar-toggler" type="button" data-toggle="collapse" data-target="#navbarNav" aria-controls="navbarNav" aria-expanded="false" aria-label="Toggle navigation">
<span class="navbar-toggler-icon"></span>
</button>
<div class="collapse navbar-collapse" id="navbarNav">
<ul class="navbar-nav">
<li class="nav-item active">
<a class="nav-link" href="#">Home <span class="sr-only">(current)</span></a>
</li>
<li class="nav-item">
<a class="nav-link" href="#">Features</a>
</li>
<li class="nav-item">
<a class="nav-link" href="#">Pricing</a>
</li>
<li class="nav-item">
<a class="nav-link disabled" href="#" tabindex="-1" aria-disabled="true">Disabled</a>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</nav>
}
So the basic navbar I have looks like this
If you need a navbar with more features (a search bar perhaps?) check the Boostrap docs out here.
Centering the nav-items
To center the nav-items as you see above all you have to is enter "justify-content-center" into your code with the id="navbarNav". See below for actual code.
<div class="collapse navbar-collapse justify-content-center" id="navbarNav">
Right-aligning the nav-items
Again all you have to do is "justify-content-center" to "justify-content-end".
And that's it!
BONUS- when the items are in the center you can space them apart by playing with the margin property in bootstrap. See what I did to get the below.
By inserting mr-4 (margin-right-4) into each nav-item class we can make our nav items get more space for each other making our navbar look like
to this
That's it folks! I dream of becoming a great front-end dev soon and hope that this little piece of information can help you as it helped me :)
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