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Bootstrap Icons v1.4.0 adds over 60 new icons as part of a brand new weather category. Also included are some long requested improvements to vertical alignment and a handful of updates to tags and categories.

Keep reading for a preview of the new icons and how icon alignment has changed.

60+ weather icons

The new weather category includes over 60 icons for various weather and atmospheric conditions. From fog and haze to rainstorms and hurricanes, we now have icons for just about every weather situation. We undoubtedly have some more work to do to refine and add to this new category, but it’s a pretty big addition to the project. Let us know what you think and what’s missing so we can keep adding to it over time.

Alignment changes

Also new in v1.4.0 are some alignment changes—before and after are shown above. Previously we used vertical-align: text-top in our CSS to aligning individual icons. This wasn’t as much of an issue when we only had SVGs, but with the addition of icon fonts and their generated CSS in v1.2.0, we had to make some changes.

New in this release is a change to vertical-align: -.125em. This new alignment is similar to that found in the tried and true Font Awesome project. This change essentially raises icons up about 1px to better vertically center them with nearby text.

It may not be perfect in all implementations, so additional changes might still be needed, but this should give you a stronger baseline to start (pun intended). Should you still run into issues, please don’t hesitate to open an issue on GitHub.

And more…

We’ve also made several updates under the hood, from dependencies to build tools. This has resulted in improved speeds for our development scripts and more resilient tooling for packaging our icons. We’ve also included category names into the fuzzy search on the homepage, making it a lot easier to search for groups of icons.

We still have some work to do on our docs and search, so stay tuned as we’ll eventually add category pages and more for easier browsing and navigating. If you’re reading this and want to help improve the Bootstrap Icons docs, please consider opening a PR anytime.

Install

To get started, install via npm:

npm i bootstrap-icons

You can also download the release from GitHub, or download just the SVGs and fonts (without the rest of the repository files).

Figma

For the Figma users out there, you can also snag the icons from Figma.

Our second beta has arrived for Bootstrap 5! We delayed its release to iron out some issues with third-party libraries and stabilize our major changes. We’ve also once again shipped some awesome updates to our documentation.

Next up is our final beta, which we may even promote to a stable release depending on how development proceeds. Stay tuned for that!

Dropdowns

Dropdowns saw a lot of work in Beta 2 because of how much has changed in both our JavaScript and in Popper.js (which we depend on for most dropdown, popover, and toolip positioning). We’ve modified our dropdown plugin to add a new data attribute to help separate our own positioning styles with that of Popper’s. The issues we saw—like a .dropstart menu overlapping a button or an incorrect responsive .dropdown-menu-end class—were largely the result of competing positioning.

Now when dropdown menus have data-bs-display="static", we’ll add data-bs-popper="static" via JavaScript to their associated .dropdown-menu. When dropdowns are in our navbars, their menus will have data-bs-popper="none" added. This separates two different positioning libraries, ours and Poppers, and ensures all behaviors are supported. You can see all the options in a new example in our docs. We updated our CSS selectors to use these new data attributes, too.

In addition, we’ve removed the initial margins from dropdowns and popovers, instead of relying on Popper’s offsets. These also conflicted with the default styling for elements positioned by Popper.js. Relatedly, there was a bug in how popover arrows were aligned that has now been resolved.

Color utility docs

We’ve overhauled our color utility documentation, separating the text color classes from our background-color ones. We’ve also made extensive use of our scss-docs shortcode to include tons more code snippets in our docs.

• Text color utilities remain on their existing page.
• Background utilities have moved to a new page.

Both pages now include a new Sass section, showing relevant snippets of our source code that are related to each set of utilities. We list all our available color variables, our theme color variables and maps, associated mixins and loops, and even where these utilities are generated in the utilities API.

Expect this kind of documentation improvements to continue into our next release. Follow along in the draft pull request that adds Sass docs to all our components on GitHub.

JS updates

We’ve spent a significant amount of time in Beta 2 improving our JavaScript plugins to fix bugs and improve behaviors since dropping jQuery.

• Dropdown now emits events on the .dropdown-toggle instead of the .dropdown.
• Restored the offset option for dropdowns.
• Fixed modal toggling when clicking on data-bs-toggle="modal".
• We now build our base component as a separate .js file.
• We now prevent getSelector from returning URLs as selector which caused errors in dropdown and scrollspy plugins.
• Refactored components to use a utility function to define jQuery plugins

Miscellaneous updates

Across the board, we’ve made a few small changes to other components that are worth a brief mention here.

• Navbars:

Added a new .navbar-nav-scroll class to enable vertical scrolling when a collapsed navbar is opened. It’s customizable via Sass and a CSS variable. Read more in the docs. We’ve re-added flex-grow to the .navbar-collapse to restore the flexbox behaviors from v4 and prevent some content from being inadvertently squished.

• Forms:

Removed vertical-align from .form-select Form validation mixin updated with additional parameters Fixed validation icon placement in .form-select Checkboxes and radio buttons are aligned better in input groups

• Buttons:

Added variables for tinting and shading button state colors Suppressed the default focus outline for buttons in Chromium

• Toasts:

Added word-break to .toast-body Added a live example to the docs to trigger a real toast

• Bundles:

Added our helpers to the utilities CSS bundle

• Carousels:

Updated docs examples to use <button>s wherever possible instead of <a> elements. CSS selectors changed for using <button>s as indicators (from .carousel-indicators li to .carousel-indicators [data-bs-target]).

For a more complete list of changes, check out the v5 Beta 2 project board or list of issues and PRs in this release.

Get started

Head to https://getbootstrap.com to explore the new release. We’ve also published this updated as a pre-release to npm, so if you’re feeling bold or are curious about what’s new, you can pull the latest in that way.

npm i bootstrap@next

What’s next

We have three releases coming up next for the team:

• Bootstrap v5.0.0-beta3 (possibly promoted to v5 stable)
• Bootstrap v4.6.1 (bringing in some more bugfixes and alignment with the latest in v5)
• Bootstrap Icons v1.4.0

Our v5 Beta 3 will continue to focus on JavaScript issues and documentation improvements. Tooltips in particular need some attention after our fixes to dropdowns and popovers. After v5 goes stable, we’ll look to adding some of the awesome features we’ve built up in our backlog. Check out the v5.1 project for an idea of what’s being planned.

Support the team

Visit our Open Collective page or our team members’ GitHub profiles to help support the maintainers contributing to Bootstrap.