Bootstrap align navbar items to the right

Css Twitter Bootstrap Bootstrap 4 Flexbox Bootstrap 5

Css Problem Overview

How do I align a navbar item to right?

I want to have the login and register to the right. But everything I try does not seem to work.

This is what I have tried so far:

<div> around the <ul> with the atribute: style="float: right"
<div> around the <ul> with the atribute: style="text-align: right"
tried those two things on the <li> tags
tried all those things again with !important added to the end
changed nav-item to nav-right in the <li>
added a pull-sm-right class to the <li>
added a align-content-end class to the <li>

This is my code:

<div id="app" class="container">
  <nav class="navbar navbar-toggleable-md navbar-light bg-faded">
    <button class="navbar-toggler navbar-toggler-right" type="button" data-toggle="collapse" data-target="#navbarNavDropdown" aria-controls="navbarNavDropdown" aria-expanded="false" aria-label="Toggle navigation">
      <span class="navbar-toggler-icon"></span>
    </button>
    <a class="navbar-brand" href="#">Navbar</a>
    <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="#">Pricingg</a>
      </li>
    </ul>
    <ul class="navbar-nav " >
      <li  class="nav-item">
        <a class="nav-link" href="{{ url('/login') }}">Login</a>
      </li>
      <li  class="nav-item">
        <a class="nav-link" href="{{ url('/register') }}">Register</a>
      </li>
    </ul>
  </nav>
  @yield('content')
</div>

Css Solutions

Solution 1 - Css

Bootstrap 5 (update 2021)

In Bootstrap 5 (see this question), ml-auto has been replaced with ms-auto to represent start instead of left. Since the Navbar is still based on flexbox, auto margins OR flexbox utility classes are still used to align Navbar content.

For example, use me-auto...

<nav class="navbar navbar-expand-lg navbar-light bg-light">
    <div class="container-fluid">
        <a class="navbar-brand" href="#">Brand</a>
        <button class="navbar-toggler" type="button" data-bs-toggle="collapse" data-bs-target="#navbarContent" aria-controls="navbarSupportedContent" aria-expanded="false" aria-label="Toggle navigation">
            <span class="navbar-toggler-icon"></span>
        </button>
        <div class="collapse navbar-collapse" id="navbarContent">
            <ul class="navbar-nav me-auto mb-2 mb-lg-0">
                <li class="nav-item">
                    <a class="nav-link active" href="#">Home</a>
                </li>
                <li class="nav-item">
                    <a class="nav-link" href="#">Link</a>
                </li>
            </ul>
            <ul class="navbar-nav">
                <li class="nav-item dropdown">
                    <a class="nav-link dropdown-toggle" href="#" id="navbarDropdown" role="button" data-bs-toggle="dropdown" aria-expanded="false"> Menu </a>
                    <ul class="dropdown-menu dropdown-menu-end" aria-labelledby="navbarDropdown">
                        <li><a class="dropdown-item" href="#">Action</a></li>
                        <li><a class="dropdown-item" href="#">Another action</a></li>
                    </ul>
                </li>
            </ul>
        </div>
    </div>
</nav>

Bootstrap 5 right align Navbar content

Bootstrap 4 (original answer)

Bootstrap has many different ways to align navbar items. float-right won't work because the navbar is now flexbox.

You can use mr-auto for auto right margin on the 1st (left) navbar-nav. Alternatively, ml-auto could be used on the 2nd (right) navbar-nav , or if you just have a single navbar-nav.

<nav class="navbar navbar-expand-md navbar-light bg-light">
    <a class="navbar-brand" href="#">Navbar</a>
    <button class="navbar-toggler" type="button" data-toggle="collapse" data-target="#navbarNav">
        <span class="navbar-toggler-icon"></span>
    </button>
    <div class="collapse navbar-collapse" id="navbarNav">
        <ul class="navbar-nav mr-auto">
            <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>
        </ul>
        <ul class="navbar-nav">
            <li class="nav-item">
                <a class="nav-link" href="#">Login</a>
            </li>
            <li class="nav-item">
                <a class="nav-link" href="#">Register</a>
            </li>
        </ul>
    </div>
</nav>

https://codeply.com/go/P0G393rzfm

There are also flexbox utils. For example use justify-content-end on the collapse menu:

<nav class="navbar navbar-expand-lg navbar-dark bg-dark">
  <div class="container-fluid">
    <a class="navbar-brand" href="#">Brand</a>
    <button class="navbar-toggler" type="button" data-bs-toggle="collapse" data-bs-target="#navbarNav">
      <span class="navbar-toggler-icon"></span>
    </button>
    <div class="collapse navbar-collapse justify-content-end" id="navbarNav">
      <ul class="navbar-nav">
        <li class="nav-item">
          <a class="nav-link active" aria-current="page" href="#">Contact</a>
        </li>
        <li class="nav-item">
          <a class="nav-link" href="#">Pricing</a>
        </li>
        <li class="nav-item">
          <a class="nav-link" href="#">Download</a>
        </li>
      </ul>
    </div>
  </div>
</nav>

Or when you have 2 navbar-navs, use justify-content-between in navbar-collapse would work to even the space between the navbar-navs:

 <div class="navbar-collapse collapse justify-content-between">
     <ul class="navbar-nav mr-auto">
               ..
     </ul>
     <ul class="navbar-nav">
           ..
     </ul>
 </div>

Update for Bootstrap 4.0 and newer

As of Bootstrap 4 beta, ml-auto will still work to push items to the right. Just be aware the the navbar-toggleable- classes have changed to navbar-expand-*

Updated navbar right for Bootstrap 4

Another frequent Bootstrap 4 Navbar right alignment scenario includes a button on the right that remains outside the mobile collapse nav so that it is always shown at all widths.

Right align button that is always visible

Solution 2 - Css

In my case, I wanted just one set of navigation buttons / options and found that this will work:

<div class="collapse navbar-collapse justify-content-end" id="navbarCollapse">
  <ul class="navbar-nav">
    <li class="nav-item">
      <a class="nav-link" href="#">Sign Out</a>
    </li>
  </ul>
</div>

So, you will add justify-content-end to the div and omit mr-auto on the list.

Here is a working example.

Solution 3 - Css

For those who is still struggling with this issue in BS4 simply try below code -

<ul class="navbar-nav ml-auto">

Solution 4 - Css

On Bootstrap 4

If you want to align brand to your left and all the navbar-items to right, change the default mr-auto to ml-auto

<ul class="navbar-nav ml-auto">

Solution 5 - Css

On Bootsrap 4.0.0-beta.2, none of the answers listed here worked for me. Finally, the Bootstrap site gave me the solution, not via its doc but via its page source code...

Getbootstrap.com align their right navbar-nav to the right with the help of the following class: ml-md-auto.

Solution 6 - Css

Use this code to move items to the right.

<div class="collapse navbar-collapse justify-content-end">

Solution 7 - Css

Use ml-auto instead of mr-auto after applying nav justify-content-end to the ul

Solution 8 - Css

Just add mr-auto class at ul:

<ul class="nav navbar-nav mr-auto">

If you have menu list in both side you can do something like this:

<ul class="navbar-nav mr-auto">
  <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="#">Link</a>
  </li>
  <li class="nav-item">
    <a class="nav-link disabled" href="#">Disabled</a>
  </li>
</ul>
<ul class="navbar-nav ml-auto">
  <li class="nav-item active">
    <a class="nav-link" href="#">left 1</a>
  </li>
  <li class="nav-item">
    <a class="nav-link" href="#">left 2</a>
  </li>
  <li class="nav-item">
    <a class="nav-link disabled" href="#">left disable</a>
  </li>
</ul>

Solution 9 - Css

If you want Home, Features and Pricing on left immediately after your nav-brand, and then login and register on right then wrap the two lists in <div> and use .justify-content-between:

<div class="collapse navbar-collapse justify-content-between">
<ul>....</ul>
<ul>...</ul>
</div>

Solution 10 - Css

In bootstrap v4.3 just add ml-auto in <ul class="navbar-nav"> Ex:<ul class="navbar-nav ml-auto">

Solution 11 - Css

use the flex-row-reverse class

<nav class="navbar navbar-toggleable-md navbar-light">
    <div class="container">
        <button class="navbar-toggler navbar-toggler-right" type="button" data-toggle="collapse" data-target="#navbarNavAltMarkup" aria-controls="navbarNavAltMarkup" aria-expanded="false"
          aria-label="Toggle navigation">
            <span class="navbar-toggler-icon"></span>
        </button>
        <a class="navbar-brand" href="#">
            <i class="fa fa-hospital-o fa-2x" aria-hidden="true"></i>
        </a>
        <div class="collapse navbar-collapse flex-row-reverse" id="navbarNavAltMarkup">
            <ul class="navbar-nav">
                <li><a class="nav-item nav-link active" href="#" style="background-color:#666">Home <span class="sr-only">(current)</span></a</li>
                <li><a class="nav-item nav-link" href="#">Doctors</a></li>
                <li><a class="nav-item nav-link" href="#">Specialists</a></li>
                <li><a class="nav-item nav-link" href="#">About</a></li>
            </ul>
        </div>
    </div>
</nav>

Solution 12 - Css

It's little change in boostrap 4. To align navbar to right side, you've to make only two changes. they are:

in navbar-nav class add w-100 as navbar-nav w-100 to make width as 100
in nav-item dropdown class add ml-auto as nav-item dropdown ml-auto to make margin left as auto.

If you didn't understand, please refer the image that i've attached to this.

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Full source code

<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="#navbarNavDropdown" aria-controls="navbarNavDropdown" aria-expanded="false" aria-label="Toggle navigation">
    <span class="navbar-toggler-icon"></span>
  </button>
  <div class="collapse navbar-collapse" id="navbarNavDropdown">
    <ul class="navbar-nav w-100">
      <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 dropdown ml-auto">
        <a class="nav-link dropdown-toggle" href="#" id="navbarDropdownMenuLink" data-toggle="dropdown" aria-haspopup="true" aria-expanded="false">
          Dropdown link
        </a>
        <div class="dropdown-menu" aria-labelledby="navbarDropdownMenuLink">
          <a class="dropdown-item" href="#">Action</a>
          <a class="dropdown-item" href="#">Another action</a>
          <a class="dropdown-item" href="#">Something else here</a>
        </div>
      </li>
    </ul>  
  </div>
</nav>

Solution 13 - Css

For bootstrap 4.3.1, I was using nav-pills and nothing worked for me except this:

    <ul class="nav nav-pills justify-content-end ml-auto">
	<li ....</li>
	</ul>

Solution 14 - Css

In my case Bootstrap v5, I wanted just one set of navigation options to the right side:

> just add "ms-auto" in ul.

And it helped me.

<div class="collapse navbar-collapse" id="navbarCollapse">
    <ul class="navbar-nav ms-auto mb-2 mb-md-0">
      <li class="nav-item">
        <a class="nav-link " aria-current="page" href="index.php">Home</a>
      </li>
      <li class="nav-item">
        <a class="nav-link " href="services.php" tabindex="-1" aria-disabled="true">Services</a>
      </li>
      <li class="nav-item">
        <a class="nav-link" href="aboutus.php">About Us</a>
      </li>
      <li class="nav-item">
        <a class="nav-link" href="Portfolio.php">Portfolio</a>
      </li>
    </ul>
    
  </div>

Solution 15 - Css

The above answers surprisingly didn't work for me so here is my approach. To align the login and register navigation bar items to the right you can make use of either of these two ways:

pull-right: Modify the unordered list tag for login and register as

<ul class="navbar-nav pull-right">
navbar-right: Modify the unordered list tag for login and register as

<ul class="navbar-nav navbar-right">

Solution 16 - Css

I am running Angular 4 (v.4.0.0) and ng-bootstrap (Bootstrap 4). This code won't all be relevant but hoping people can pick and choose what works. It took me sometime to find a solution to get my items to justify right, collapse properly and to implement a dropdown off my google (using OAuth) profile picture.

<div id="header" class="header">
  <nav class="navbar navbar-toggleable-sm navbar-inverse bg-faded fixed-top">
    <button class="navbar-toggler navbar-toggler-right" type="button" data-toggle="collapse" data-target="#navbarSupportedContent"
      aria-controls="navbarSupportedContent" aria-expanded="false" aria-label="Toggle navigation">
    <span class="navbar-toggler-icon"></span>
  </button>
    <a class="navbar-brand" href="#">
          <img alt='Brand' src='../assets/images/logo-white.png' class='navbar-logo-img d-inline-block align-top '>
          <span class="navbar-logo-text">Oncoscape</span>
        </a>
    <div class="collapse navbar-collapse justify-content-end" id="navbarSupportedContent">
      <ul class="navbar-nav float-left">
        <a class="navbar-items nav-item nav-link active " *ngIf='authenticated' (click)='goDashboard()'>
          <span class="fa fa-dashboard"></span>Dashboard
        </a>
        <a class="nav-item nav-link navbar-items active" href="http://resources.sttrcancer.org/oncoscape-contact">
          <span class="fa fa-comments"></span>Feedback
        </a>
        <li class="nav-item dropdown">
          <a class="nav-link dropdown-toggle" id="navbarDropdownMenuLink" data-toggle="dropdown" aria-haspopup="true" aria-expanded="false">
            <img *ngIf='user && authenticated'  class="navbar-pic" src={{user.thumbnail}} alt="Smiley face">
          </a>
          <div *ngIf='user && authenticated' class="dropdown-menu " aria-labelledby="navbarDropdownMenuLink">
            <a class="dropdown-item" (click)="toProfile()">Account</a>
            <div class="dropdown-item">
              <app-login></app-login>
            </div>
          </div>
        </li>
      </ul>
    </div>
  </nav>
</div>
<router-outlet></router-outlet>

Solution 17 - Css

For Bootstrap 4 beta, sample navbar with elements aligned to the right side is:

<div id="app" class="container">
  <nav class="navbar navbar-expand-md navbar-light bg-faded">
    <button class="navbar-toggler navbar-toggler-right" type="button" data-toggle="collapse" data-target="#navbarNavDropdown" aria-controls="navbarNavDropdown" aria-expanded="false" aria-label="Toggle navigation">
      <span class="navbar-toggler-icon"></span>
    </button>
    <a class="navbar-brand" href="#">Navbar</a>
    <ul class="navbar-nav mr-auto">
      <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="#">Pricingg</a>
      </li>
    </ul>
    <ul class="navbar-nav">
      <li class="nav-item">
        <a class="nav-link" href="{{ url('/login') }}">Login</a>
      </li>
      <li class="nav-item">
        <a class="nav-link" href="{{ url('/register') }}">Register</a>
      </li>
    </ul>
  </nav>
</div>

Solution 18 - Css

Using the bootstrap flex box helps us to control the placement and alignment of your navigation element. for the problem above adding mr-auto is a better solution to it .

<div id="app" class="container">
  <nav class="navbar navbar-toggleable-md navbar-light bg-faded">
    <button class="navbar-toggler navbar-toggler-right" type="button" data-toggle="collapse" data-target="#navbarNavDropdown" aria-controls="navbarNavDropdown" aria-expanded="false" aria-label="Toggle navigation">
      <span class="navbar-toggler-icon"></span>
    </button>
    <a class="navbar-brand" href="#">Navbar</a>
    <ul class="navbar-nav mr-auto">
      <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="#">Pricingg</a>
      </li>
    </ul>
    <ul class="navbar-nav  " >
      <li  class="nav-item">
        <a class="nav-link" href="{{ url('/login') }}">Login</a>
      </li>
      <li  class="nav-item">
        <a class="nav-link" href="{{ url('/register') }}">Register</a>
      </li>
    </ul>
  </nav>
  @yield('content')
</div>

other placement may include

fixed- top
	fixed bottom
	sticky-top

Solution 19 - Css

The working example for BS v4.0.0-beta.2:

<body>
    <nav class="navbar navbar-expand-md navbar-dark bg-dark">
      <a class="navbar-brand" href="#">Navbar</a>
      <button class="navbar-toggler" type="button" data-toggle="collapse" data-target="#navbarNavDropdown" aria-controls="navbarNavDropdown" aria-expanded="false" aria-label="Toggle navigation">
        <span class="navbar-toggler-icon"></span>
      </button>

      <div class="collapse navbar-collapse" id="navbarNavDropdown">
        <ul class="navbar-nav mr-auto">
          <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="#">Pricingg</a>
          </li>
        </ul>
        <ul class="navbar-nav">
          <li class="nav-item">
            <a class="nav-link" href="#">Login</a>
          </li>
          <li class="nav-item">
            <a class="nav-link" href="#">Register</a>
          </li>
        </ul>
      </div>
    </nav>


    <div class="container-fluid">
      container content
    </div>

    <!-- Optional JavaScript -->
    <!-- jQuery first, then Popper.js, then Bootstrap JS -->
    <script src="node_modules/jquery/dist/jquery.slim.min.js"></script>
    <script src="node_modules/popper.js/dist/umd/popper.min.js"></script>
    <script src="node_modules/bootstrap/dist/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
  </body>

Solution 20 - Css

If all above fails, I added 100% width to the navbar class in CSS. Until then mr auto wasn't working for me on this project using 4.1.

Solution 21 - Css

Find the 69 line in the verndor-prefixes.less and write it following:

.panel {
    margin-bottom: 20px;
    height: 100px;
    background-color: #fff;
    border: 1px solid transparent;
    border-radius: 4px;
    -webkit-box-shadow: 0 1px 1px rgba(0,0,0,.05);
    box-shadow: 0 1px 1px rgba(0,0,0,.05);
}

Solution 22 - Css

Just copied this from one of the getbootstrap pages for the released version 4 which worked much better than the above

<div class="d-none d-xl-block col-xl-2 bd-toc float-md-right">
    <ul class="section-nav">
         <li class="toc-entry toc-h2"><a href="#overview">Overview</a></li>
         <li class="toc-entry toc-h2"><a href="#classes">Classes</a></li>
         <li class="toc-entry toc-h2"><a href="#mixins">Mixins</a></li>
         <li class="toc-entry toc-h2"><a href="#responsive">Responsive</a></li>
    </ul>
</div>

Solution 23 - Css

I'm new to stack overflow and new to front end development. This is what worked for me. So I did not want list items to be displayed.

.hidden {
  display:none;
  } 
  
 #loginButton{
 
 margin-right:2px;
 
 }

<nav class="navbar navbar-toggleable-md navbar-light bg-faded fixed-top">
  <button class="navbar-toggler navbar-toggler-right" type="button" data-toggle="collapse" data-target="#navbarSupportedContent" aria-controls="navbarSupportedContent" aria-expanded="false" aria-label="Toggle navigation">
    <span class="navbar-toggler-icon"></span>
  </button>
  <a class="navbar-brand" href="#">NavBar</a>

  <div class="collapse navbar-collapse" id="navbarSupportedContent">
    <ul class="navbar-nav mr-auto">
      <li class="nav-item active hidden">
        <a class="nav-link" href="#">Home <span class="sr-only">(current)</span></a>
      </li>
      <li class="nav-item hidden">
        <a class="nav-link" href="#">Link</a>
      </li>
      <li class="nav-item hidden">
        <a class="nav-link disabled" href="#">Disabled</a>
      </li>
    </ul>
    <form class="form-inline my-2 my-lg-0">
      <button class="btn btn-outline-success my-2 my-sm-0" type="submit" id="loginButton"><a href="#">Log In</a></button>
      <button class="btn btn-outline-success my-2 my-sm-0" type="submit"><a href="#">Register</a></button>
    </form>
  </div>
</nav>

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