Buttons
Use Bootstrap’s custom button styles for actions in forms, dialogs, and more with support for multiple sizes, states, and more.
Examples
Bootstrap includes several predefined button styles, each serving its own semantic purpose, with a few extras thrown in for more control.
type="button" class="btn btn-primary">Primary type="button" class="btn btn-secondary">Secondary type="button" class="btn btn-success">Success type="button" class="btn btn-danger">Danger type="button" class="btn btn-warning">Warning type="button" class="btn btn-info">Info type="button" class="btn btn-light">Light type="button" class="btn btn-dark">Dark type="button" class="btn btn-link">Link
Conveying meaning to assistive technologies
Using color to add meaning only provides a visual indication, which will not be conveyed to users of assistive technologies – such as screen readers. Ensure that information denoted by the color is either obvious from the content itself (e.g. the visible text), or is included through alternative means, such as additional text hidden with the .sr-only class.
Disable text wrapping
If you don’t want the button text to wrap, you can add the .text-nowrap class to the button. In Sass, you can set $btn-white-space: nowrap to disable text wrapping for each button.
Button tags
The .btn classes are designed to be used with the element. However, you can also use these classes on or elements (though some browsers may apply a slightly different rendering).
class="btn btn-primary" href="#" role="button">Link class="btn btn-primary" type="submit">Button class="btn btn-primary" type="button" value="Input"> class="btn btn-primary" type="submit" value="Submit"> class="btn btn-primary" type="reset" value="Reset">
Outline buttons
In need of a button, but not the hefty background colors they bring? Replace the default modifier classes with the .btn-outline-* ones to remove all background images and colors on any button.
type="button" class="btn btn-outline-primary">Primary type="button" class="btn btn-outline-secondary">Secondary type="button" class="btn btn-outline-success">Success type="button" class="btn btn-outline-danger">Danger type="button" class="btn btn-outline-warning">Warning type="button" class="btn btn-outline-info">Info type="button" class="btn btn-outline-light">Light type="button" class="btn btn-outline-dark">Dark
Sizes
Fancy larger or smaller buttons? Add .btn-lg or .btn-sm for additional sizes.
type="button" class="btn btn-primary btn-lg">Large button type="button" class="btn btn-secondary btn-lg">Large button
type="button" class="btn btn-primary btn-sm">Small button type="button" class="btn btn-secondary btn-sm">Small button
Create block level buttons—those that span the full width of a parent—by adding .btn-block .
type="button" class="btn btn-primary btn-lg btn-block">Block level button type="button" class="btn btn-secondary btn-lg btn-block">Block level button
Active state
Buttons will appear pressed (with a darker background, darker border, and inset shadow) when active. There’s no need to add a class to s as they use a pseudo-class. However, you can still force the same active appearance with .active (and include the aria-pressed=»true» attribute) should you need to replicate the state programmatically.
href="#" class="btn btn-primary btn-lg active" role="button" aria-pressed="true">Primary link href="#" class="btn btn-secondary btn-lg active" role="button" aria-pressed="true">Link
Disabled state
Make buttons look inactive by adding the disabled boolean attribute to any element.
type="button" class="btn btn-lg btn-primary" disabled>Primary button type="button" class="btn btn-secondary btn-lg" disabled>Button
href="#" class="btn btn-primary btn-lg disabled" tabindex="-1" role="button" aria-disabled="true">Primary link href="#" class="btn btn-secondary btn-lg disabled" tabindex="-1" role="button" aria-disabled="true">Link
Link functionality caveat
Button plugin
Do more with buttons. Control button states or create groups of buttons for more components like toolbars.
Toggle states
Add data-toggle=»button» to toggle a button’s active state. If you’re pre-toggling a button, you must manually add the .active class and aria-pressed=»true» to the .
type="button" class="btn btn-primary" data-toggle="button" aria-pressed="false"> Single toggle
Checkbox and radio buttons
Bootstrap’s .button styles can be applied to other elements, such as s, to provide checkbox or radio style button toggling. Add data-toggle=»buttons» to a .btn-group containing those modified buttons to enable their toggling behavior via JavaScript and add .btn-group-toggle to style the s within your buttons. Note that you can create single input-powered buttons or groups of them.
The checked state for these buttons is only updated via click event on the button. If you use another method to update the input—e.g., with or by manually applying the input’s checked property—you’ll need to toggle .active on the manually.
Note that pre-checked buttons require you to manually add the .active class to the input’s .
class="btn-group-toggle" data-toggle="buttons"> class="btn btn-secondary active"> type="checkbox" checked> Checked
class="btn-group btn-group-toggle" data-toggle="buttons"> class="btn btn-secondary active"> type="radio" name="options" id="option1" checked> Active class="btn btn-secondary"> type="radio" name="options" id="option2"> Radio class="btn btn-secondary"> type="radio" name="options" id="option3"> Radio
Methods
Method | Description |
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$().button(‘toggle’) | Toggles push state. Gives the button the appearance that it has been activated. |
$().button(‘dispose’) | Destroys an element’s button. |
Bootstrap class: .btn-success
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More in Bootstrap Buttons
- btn-secondary
- btn-info
- btn-primary
- btn-warning
- btn-light
- btn-link
- btn-danger
- btn-outline-primary
- btn-outline-secondary
- btn-outline-success
- btn-outline-warning
- btn-outline-danger
- btn-outline-light
- btn-outline-dark
- btn-dark
- btn-outline-info
- btn
- btn-close
- btn-close-white
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