Carol Skelly
Posted on April 9, 2020
Just when I thought I had the answer for every possible Navbar scenario in Bootstrap 4, up pops another StackOverflow question, on "How can I make a Navbar that... ?"
In this case I want to make a Navbar that has icons & text. The text will be centered below each icon, and on mobile only the icons will display.
Mobile view
Large view
For the icons I used Font Awesome, but of course there are many other alternatives including the new icons from Bootstrap😏. The Navbar structure is standard, with the exception of using the nav-justified
and w-100
classes to on the navbar-nav
to make items space evenly on the page:
<nav class="navbar navbar-dark navbar-expand justify-content-center">
<div class="container">
<ul class="navbar-nav nav-justified w-100 text-center">
... (repeat nav items here)
</ul>
</div>
</nav>
For each nav-item
, I used flexbox (d-flex flex-column
) to make the icon & text stack vertically. Using Bootstrap's responsive display classes, the text is hidden on mobile (d-none d-sm-inline
).
Take a closer look at each nav-item
🧐...
<li class="nav-item">
<a href="#" class="nav-link d-flex flex-column">
<i class="fab fa-bootstrap"></i>
<span class="d-none d-sm-inline">home</span>
</a>
</li>
And that's all there is to it ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Posted on April 9, 2020
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