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Utilities for layout

For faster mobile-friendly and responsive development, Bootstrap includes dozens of utility classes for showing, hiding, aligning, and spacing content.

Changing display

Use our display utilities for responsively toggling common values of the display property. Mix it with our grid system, content, or components to show or hide them across specific viewports.

Flexbox options

Bootstrap is built with flexbox, but not every element’s display has been changed to display: flex as this would add many unnecessary overrides and unexpectedly change key browser behaviors. Most of our components are built with flexbox enabled.

Should you need to add display: flex to an element, do so with .d-flex or one of the responsive variants (e.g., .d-sm-flex). You’ll need this class or display value to allow the use of our extra flexbox utilities for sizing, alignment, spacing, and more.

Margin and padding

Use the margin and padding spacing utilities to control how elements and components are spaced and sized. Bootstrap includes a six-level scale for spacing utilities, based on a 1rem value default $spacer variable. Choose values for all viewports (e.g., .me-3 for margin-right: 1rem in LTR), or pick responsive variants to target specific viewports (e.g., .me-md-3 for margin-right: 1rem —in LTR— starting at the md breakpoint).

Toggle visibility

When toggling display isn’t needed, you can toggle the visibility of an element with our visibility utilities. Invisible elements will still affect the layout of the page, but are visually hidden from visitors.

` const jsSnippetContent = jsSnippet ? '\/\/ NOTICE!!! Initially embedded in our docs this JavaScript\n\/\/ file contains elements that can help you create reproducible\n\/\/ use cases in StackBlitz for instance\.\n\/\/ In a real project please adapt this content to your needs\.\n\/\/ \u002b\u002b\u002b\u002b\u002b\u002b\u002b\u002b\u002b\u002b\u002b\u002b\u002b\u002b\u002b\u002b\u002b\u002b\u002b\u002b\u002b\u002b\u002b\u002b\u002b\u002b\u002b\u002b\u002b\u002b\u002b\u002b\u002b\u002b\u002b\u002b\u002b\u002b\u002b\u002b\u002b\u002b\n\n\/\*!\n \* JavaScript for Bootstrap\u0027s docs \(https:\/\/getbootstrap\.com\/\)\n \* Copyright 2011\-2022 The Bootstrap Authors\n \* Copyright 2011\-2022 Twitter, Inc\.\n \* Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3\.0 Unported License\.\n \* For details, see https:\/\/creativecommons\.org\/licenses\/by\/3\.0\/\.\n \*\/\n\n\/\* global bootstrap: false \*\/\n\n\(\(\) =\u003e \{\n \u0027use strict\u0027\n\n \/\/ \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\n \/\/ Tooltips\n \/\/ \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\n \/\/ Instantiate all tooltips in a docs or StackBlitz page\n document\.querySelectorAll\(\u0027\[data\-bs\-toggle=\u0022tooltip\u0022\]\u0027\)\n \.forEach\(tooltip =\u003e \{\n new bootstrap\.Tooltip\(tooltip\)\n \}\)\n\n \/\/ \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\n \/\/ Popovers\n \/\/ \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\n \/\/ Instantiate all popovers in a docs or StackBlitz page\n document\.querySelectorAll\(\u0027\[data\-bs\-toggle=\u0022popover\u0022\]\u0027\)\n \.forEach\(popover =\u003e \{\n new bootstrap\.Popover\(popover\)\n \}\)\n\n \/\/ \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\n \/\/ Toasts\n \/\/ \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\n \/\/ Used by \u0027Placement\u0027 example in docs or StackBlitz\n const toastPlacement = document\.getElementById\(\u0027toastPlacement\u0027\)\n if \(toastPlacement\) \{\n document\.getElementById\(\u0027selectToastPlacement\u0027\)\.addEventListener\(\u0027change\u0027, function \(\) \{\n if \(!toastPlacement\.dataset\.originalClass\) \{\n toastPlacement\.dataset\.originalClass = toastPlacement\.className\n \}\n\n toastPlacement\.className = `\$\{toastPlacement\.dataset\.originalClass\} \$\{this\.value\}`\n \}\)\n \}\n\n \/\/ Instantiate all toasts in a docs page only\n document\.querySelectorAll\(\u0027\.bd\-example \.toast\u0027\)\n \.forEach\(toastNode =\u003e \{\n const toast = new bootstrap\.Toast\(toastNode, \{\n autohide: false\n \}\)\n\n toast\.show\(\)\n \}\)\n\n \/\/ Instantiate all toasts in a docs page only\n const toastTrigger = document\.getElementById\(\u0027liveToastBtn\u0027\)\n const toastLiveExample = document\.getElementById\(\u0027liveToast\u0027\)\n if \(toastTrigger\) \{\n toastTrigger\.addEventListener\(\u0027click\u0027, \(\) =\u003e \{\n const toast = new bootstrap\.Toast\(toastLiveExample\)\n\n toast\.show\(\)\n \}\)\n \}\n\n \/\/ \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\n \/\/ Alerts\n \/\/ \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\n \/\/ Used in \u0027Show live toast\u0027 example in docs or StackBlitz\n const alertPlaceholder = document\.getElementById\(\u0027liveAlertPlaceholder\u0027\)\n const alertTrigger = document\.getElementById\(\u0027liveAlertBtn\u0027\)\n\n const appendAlert = \(message, type\) =\u003e \{\n const wrapper = document\.createElement\(\u0027div\u0027\)\n wrapper\.innerHTML = \[\n `\u003cdiv class=\u0022alert alert\-\$\{type\} alert\-dismissible\u0022 role=\u0022alert\u0022\u003e`,\n ` \u003cdiv\u003e\$\{message\}\u003c\/div\u003e`,\n \u0027 \u003cbutton type=\u0022button\u0022 class=\u0022btn\-close\u0022 data\-bs\-dismiss=\u0022alert\u0022 aria\-label=\u0022Close\u0022\u003e\u003c\/button\u003e\u0027,\n \u0027\u003c\/div\u003e\u0027\n \]\.join\(\u0027\u0027\)\n\n alertPlaceholder\.append\(wrapper\)\n \}\n\n if \(alertTrigger\) \{\n alertTrigger\.addEventListener\(\u0027click\u0027, \(\) =\u003e \{\n appendAlert\(\u0027Nice, you triggered this alert message!\u0027, \u0027success\u0027\)\n \}\)\n \}\n\n \/\/ \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\n \/\/ Checks \u0026 Radios\n \/\/ \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\n \/\/ Indeterminate checkbox example in docs and StackBlitz\n document\.querySelectorAll\(\u0027\.bd\-example\-indeterminate \[type=\u0022checkbox\u0022\]\u0027\)\n \.forEach\(checkbox =\u003e \{\n if \(checkbox\.id\.includes\(\u0027Indeterminate\u0027\)\) \{\n checkbox\.indeterminate = true\n \}\n \}\)\n\n \/\/ \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\n \/\/ Links\n \/\/ \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\n \/\/ Disable empty links in docs examples only\n document\.querySelectorAll\(\u0027\.bd\-content \[href=\u0022#\u0022\]\u0027\)\n \.forEach\(link =\u003e \{\n link\.addEventListener\(\u0027click\u0027, event =\u003e \{\n event\.preventDefault\(\)\n \}\)\n \}\)\n\n \/\/ \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\n \/\/ Modal\n \/\/ \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\n \/\/ Modal \u0027Varying modal content\u0027 example in docs and StackBlitz\n const exampleModal = document\.getElementById\(\u0027exampleModal\u0027\)\n if \(exampleModal\) \{\n exampleModal\.addEventListener\(\u0027show\.bs\.modal\u0027, event =\u003e \{\n \/\/ Button that triggered the modal\n const button = event\.relatedTarget\n \/\/ Extract info from data\-bs\-\* attributes\n const recipient = button\.getAttribute\(\u0027data\-bs\-whatever\u0027\)\n\n \/\/ Update the modal\u0027s content\.\n const modalTitle = exampleModal\.querySelector\(\u0027\.modal\-title\u0027\)\n const modalBodyInput = exampleModal\.querySelector\(\u0027\.modal\-body input\u0027\)\n\n modalTitle\.textContent = `New message to \$\{recipient\}`\n modalBodyInput\.value = recipient\n \}\)\n \}\n\n \/\/ \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\n \/\/ Offcanvas\n \/\/ \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\n \/\/ \u0027Offcanvas components\u0027 example in docs only\n const myOffcanvas = document\.querySelectorAll\(\u0027\.bd\-example\-offcanvas \.offcanvas\u0027\)\n if \(myOffcanvas\) \{\n myOffcanvas\.forEach\(offcanvas =\u003e \{\n offcanvas\.addEventListener\(\u0027show\.bs\.offcanvas\u0027, event =\u003e \{\n event\.preventDefault\(\)\n \}, false\)\n \}\)\n \}\n\}\)\(\)\n' : null const project = { files: { 'index.html': markup, 'index.js': jsSnippetContent }, title: 'Bootstrap Example', description: `Official example from ${window.location.href}`, template: jsSnippet ? 'javascript' : 'html', tags: ['bootstrap'] } StackBlitzSDK.openProject(project, { openFile: 'index.html' }) }