Our latest patch release has arrived to improve our JavaScript plugins, address the / deprecation in Dart Sass, fix a few CSS bugs, and make some documentation improvements.
Sass division
One of the biggest fixes in Bootstrap v5.0.2 patches the deprecation of / for performing division in Sass. The Dart Sass team deprecated it due to the use of / characters in actual CSS (e.g., separating background values). The bad news was this shipped with deprecation notices, which in our case heavily polluted the build process for everyone. Our potential solutions included:
Ignore it entirely and silence the deprecation warnings
Drop implicit support for LibSass and use the Dart Sass math module
Figure out a custom fix to keep the widest possible Sass support
We chose the third option—keeping support for both LibSass and Dart Sass, even though the former is deprecated. There are many projects out there that simply haven’t or cannot update to Dart Sass (including Hugo, which we use to build our docs).
Our solution meant rolling a custom divide() function and replacing division with multiplication wherever possible. We wanted to limit the use of a custom function, so the situations where we used $value / 2 were replaced with $value * .5. This custom function has also been added to the RFS project in a new release. While the precision in our compiled CSS has been reduced by two decimal places, the output remains otherwise unchanged.
If you have any ideas or suggestions on further improvements, please don’t hesitate to open an issue.
Highlights
Here are some highlights from the changelog.
CSS
Fixed deprecation warnings in Sass for / division. Replaced most / division with multiplication and added a custom divide() function to avoid adding Dart Sass modules (as this would negate the usage of LibSass).
Individual .col-* grid classes can now override .row-cols.
Updated line-height for floating forms to fix cut-off select menu text.
Added missing transition to .form-select.
Fixed .dropdowns-menu-* position in RTL.
Decoupled --bs-table-bg and --bs-table-accent-bg to separate table accent highlights.
Improved support for complex expressions in add() and subtract() functions.
Fixed horizontal padding for select elements in Firefox.
Updated border color for popover header to match the outer border.
Fixed offcanvas header alignment for RTL.
JavaScript
Popovers now remove titles or content when they’re empty instead of returning empty HTML elements.
Dropdown items are now automatically selected when using arrow keys.
We now register only one DOMContentLoaded event listener in onDOMContentLoaded utility function.
Fixed arrow keys breaking animation when the carousel sliding.
Fixed handling of transitioned events dispatched by nested elements (e.g., modals didn’t transition when clicking buttons).
Fixed backdrop errors with stale body cause by unnecessary default and removeChild.
Fixed issue where the show.bs.modal event with the .fade class prevented modals from being displayed again.
Fixed isVisible false positives.
Added getOrCreateInstance method in our base component that is applied to all components.
Docs
Documented how to make utilities responsive using the API. Also added !important to the sample output CSS and mentioned the $enable-important-utilities global setting.
Added a mention of the breakpoint mixins changes from v4 to the migration guide.
Added a new example of positioned badges to the docs.
Clarified variable overrides in the Customizing > Sass page.
Our first patch release for Bootstrap 5 has landed with v5.0.1! We’ve fixed a handful of bugs in our CSS and JS while also resolving a few issues with our docs and examples.
Changelog
Fixed an issue where dropdowns wouldn’t close after clicking into an <input>
Validated inputs in .input-groups no longer render behind sibling elements
Prevent accent-bg from leaking in nested tables
Modal backdrops no longer throw Uncaught TypeError when initialized through JS
Refactored disposing properties into the base component
Extracted static DATA_KEY and EVENT_KEY to the base component
Merged transitionend listener callbacks into one method
Popovers and tooltips have a streamlined config property
Toasts no longer automatically hide on focus or hover
No longer redefining $list-group-color in the list group loop
Our docs and examples also received a few updates:
Fixed Sidebars example not rendering correctly in Chrome
Fixed RTLCSS stringMap configuration snippet
Updated offcanvas navbar example to prevent console error
Fixed miscellaneous typos, grammatical errors, and links in the Migration guide
Bootstrap Icons v1.5.0 adds 45 new icons across a few categories as I continue to round out the set. Keep reading to see what’s new!
45 new icons
The primary goal with this release was to round out some of the most requested icons to date. Here’s the lowdown:
First up are large versions of our dash, plus, slash, x, and other alert signage icons. The existing icons are based on their placement in other shapes, so rather than upsize those ones and potentially break things for folks, I’ve added new large options.
Commerce icons have a huge update with new currency options, banks, insert credit card, vaults/safes, and even a couple piggy banks.
For people and identity, we’ve added our first gender icons for female, male, trans, and ambiguous. It’s just the start, as I’m sure there are significant gender and identity roles I’m missing. Please open an issue with feedback if there are improvements I can make here to be more inclusive of everyone.
On the communications side, there’s finally a translate icon and bells with slash.
And to round it out, there’s a new VR headset icon, a couple new geo pin icons, and some new social options like Messenger, Reddit, WhatsApp, and more.
The Figma file is now published to the Figma Community! It’s the same Bootstrap Icons Figma file you’ve seen from previous releases, just a little more accessible to those using the app.
Bootstrap 5 has officially landed! After three alphas, three betas, and several months of hard work, we’re shipping the first stable release of our new major version. It’s been a wild ride made possible by our maintainers and the amazing community that uses and contributes to Bootstrap. Thanks to all who have helped us get here!
Keep reading for details on what’s new compared to v4 and what’s coming for subsequent releases. Want to get right to it? Head to the new v5 docs or fly by the seat of your pants and just npm i bootstrap.
One of the biggest changes with v5 came with our redesigned logo and updated docs design. Inspired by the work we’ve done in Bootstrap Icons, our new logo is a callback to CSS’s curly braces and our longstanding B icon. It’s a small upgrade, but a fun one nonetheless, and one that we feel helps set the tone for this new major release. Still the same Bootstrap, just slightly refined. 😅
And the new docs are brighter, better organized with new content sections, and also feature improved navigation.
New offcanvas component
One of our big new component additions is the all-new offcanvas!
Built on and sharing fundamental pieces of our modals, our new offcanvas component comes with a configurable backdrop, body scroll, and placement. Offcanvas components can be placed on the top, right, bottom, or left of the viewport. Configure these options with data attributes or via the JavaScript APIs.
New accordion
We’ve replaced our .card accordion component with a brand new .accordion component, solving several bugs in the process. Our new accordion still uses the Collapse JavaScript plugin, but with custom HTML and CSS to support it, it’s better and easier than ever to use.
The new accordion includes Bootstrap Icons as chevron icons indicating state and click-ability. We’ve included support for a flush accordion (add .accordion-flush) to remove the outer borders, allowing for easier placement inside parent elements.
We’ve overhauled our Forms documentation and components. We’ve consolidated all our forms styles into a new Forms section (including the input group component) to give them the emphasis they deserve.
Alongside new docs pages, we’ve redesigned and de-duped all our form controls. In v4 we introduced an extensive suite of custom form controls—checks, radios, switches, files, and more—but those were in addition to whatever defaults each browser provided. With v5, we’ve gone fully custom.
Checks and radios
If you’re familiar with v4’s form markup, this shouldn’t look too far off for you. With a single set of form controls and a focus on redesigning existing elements vs generating new ones via pseudo-elements, we have a much more consistent look and feel.
Every checkbox, radio, select, file, range, and more includes a custom appearance to unify the style and behavior of form controls across OS and browser. These new form controls are all built on completely semantic, standard form controls—no more superfluous markup, just form controls and labels.
Floating labels
Floating labels include support for textual inputs, selects, and textareas. We have one limitation with textareas where multiple lines of text can be obscured by the floating label. We’re working on fixes for this, so if you have ideas, please let us know!
New file input
We’ve dropped our custom .form-file class for additional styles on the .form-control class. This means we no longer require additional JavaScript to make our file input styles functional—the new form file is all CSS!
Simplified layout
Using our new grid updates, form layout has never been easier. We’ve dropped the .form-group, .form-row, and .form-inline for the grid system.
Five new RTL Examples that show our new RTL CSS in action, converting our Album, Checkout, Carousel, Blog, and Dashboard examples into all-new right-to-left equivalents.
Our approach is built on RTLCSS, an awesome project that helps reprocess an existing LTR stylesheet for RTL. We’ve classified it as an experimental feature for now, anticipating that we’ll get some of this wrong. We’re looking to the community to help us round out the feature as we wrap up some remaining todos.
Overhauled utilities
Given the love utility-driven frameworks have garnered the last few years, we’ve invested in adding more utilities to Bootstrap along with a new method of managing them across your projects.
New utilities API
We’ve implemented a brand new utility API into Bootstrap 5 as the primary way to extend Bootstrap’s default utility classes. Easily generate and customize utilities with support for custom class names, support for generating state-based classes like :hover, print versions, and more.
Ever since utilities become a preferred way to build, we’ve been working to find the right balance to implement them in Bootstrap while providing control and customization. In v4, we did this with global $enable-* classes, and we’ve even carried that forward in v5. But with an API-based approach, we’ve created a language and syntax in Sass to create your own utilities on the fly while also being able to modify or remove those we provide.
Part of our approach to adding RTL to Bootstrap was to add it in a way that felt future-friendly to ourselves and the web at large. As such, we’ve embraced the spirit of CSS logical properties and have renamed several classes and variables. It’s a risky change because of the size and impact of the change, but we hope you’ll appreciate it overall!
Most of you have already interacted with logical properties thanks to our flex utilities—they replace direction properties like left and right in favor start and end. Things like align-items-end have been welcomed additions. This makes horizontal directional class names appropriate for LTR and RTL without any additional overhead moving forward.
For example, in a LTR context, instead of .ml-3 for margin-left, use .ms-3. Be sure to read the RTL Migration guide for a full list of renamed classes and variables.
New snippet examples
We’ve added four brand new snippet-heavy examples and refreshed a few other examples while we were at it. These new snippet examples feature several variations of common components, served up in different ways for you to easily copy and paste.
These new snippets will continue to grow with new additions over time, showing just how fun and easy it is to build with Bootstrap.
We’ve also updated our starter template with a refreshed design and more resources.
Grid and layout
Our grid system and layout options saw some changes to streamline and improve things, namely:
Column classes can now be used as width utilities (e.g., .col-6 is width: 50%) as padding is no longer applied outside a .row.
New gutter utilities can responsively customize horizontal and vertical grid gutters. The gutter width has also been reduced to 1.5rem.
Removed position: relative from column classes
Dropped the .media component for utilities
We also updated our layout documentation to break apart the exceptionally long pages into more focused topics. We’ve also added a clarified explanation of breakpoints, containers, and more.
Across the board we’ve made a number of other enhancements and changes to key components:
We’ve overhauled the JavaScript and positioning for our dropdowns as part of our adoption of Popper 2. You can see all the options in a new example in our docs and new CSS selectors and data attributes used to position them.
Dropdown menus now have a new .dropdown-menu-dark modifier class.
Similarly, carousels now have a new .carousel-dark modifier class to invert the controls, text, and indicators.
We’ve hunkered down and improved our documentation in several places, giving more explanation, removing ambiguity, and providing much more support for extending Bootstrap. It all starts with a whole new Customize section.
v5’s Customize docs expand on v4’s Theming page with more content and code snippets for building on top of Bootstrap’s source Sass files. We’ve fleshed out more content here and even provided a starter npm project for you to get started with faster and easier. It’s also available as a template repo on GitHub, so you can freely fork and go.
We’ve expanded our color palette in v5, too. With an extensive color system built-in, you can more easily customize the look and feel of your app without ever leaving the codebase. We’ve also done some work to improve color contrast, and even provided color contrast metrics in our Color docs. Hopefully, this will continue to help make Bootstrap-powered sites more accessible to folks all over.
We’ve also added new sections to most of our pages to document the source Sass code that powers each component. Variables, mixins, loops, and maps are all rendered and kept up to date in each page, making it easier to reference and customize values as you build.
Dart Sass
We’ve switched to Dart Sass with LibSass being deprecated. We’ve been testing our builds with Dart Sass for a while and decided to make the switch with LibSass being deprecated just a couple of weeks ago. We’re holding on to the Sass modules for now. We’re still not using the new module system for compatibility concerns and a greater gap for folks upgrading from v4.
Browser support
We’ve dropped a ton of older browsers in this update, making it one of our biggest leaps in a while:
Dropped Microsoft Edge Legacy
Dropped Internet Explorer 10 and 11
Dropped Firefox < 60
Dropped Safari < 10
Dropped iOS Safari < 10
Dropped Chrome < 60
Dropped Android < 6
You can find the full browser and device support in our .browserslistrc.
JavaScript
The biggest change to our JavaScript has been the removal of jQuery, but we’ve also made a number of enhancements beyond that as well.
No more jQuery!
All plugins can now accept a CSS selector as the first argument.
Updated to Popper 2!
Data attributes for all JavaScript plugins are now namespaced with bs. For example, we use data-bs-toggle instead of data-toggle.
We overhauled dropdown, popover, and tooltip placement with the arrival of Popper v2.
Toast positioning was also overhauled and now leverages our new position utilities.
Added ability to use custom classes for tooltips and popovers.
Made various optimizations to better share code across components.
Changed dropdowns to emit events on .dropdown-toggle instead of .dropdown.
Removed underscore from public static methods like _getInstance() to getInstance().
Renamed whiteList to allowList in popovers and tooltips`
Migration guide
We’ve updated our migration guide page to consolidate all our changes across the six pre-releases into a single set of changes. We’ve condensed much of the content this way and added Breaking change labels throughout to help draw you attention to potential gotchas while upgrading.
We still think there’s more to do here—including tutorial-like guidance on the code changes, diffs and code snippets for our dependencies, etc. If you have suggestions or want to contribute, please open an issue or pull request.
Head to https://getbootstrap.com to explore the new release. We’ve also published this update as our new latest release on npm, so if you’re feeling bold or are curious about what’s new, you can pull the latest in that way.
Feel free to open issues or pull requests if you have any additional ideas for upcoming releases!
v5.1.0 preview
While we were polishing up this release, we also had our eyes towards the future to ship a few minor releases. Here’s a quick look at what’s coming in our next minor release, v5.1.0:
Our latest Bootstrap Icons update has arrived to fix a few bugs and improve our build tooling. Keep reading for what’s new.
Key changes
Here are the highlights from this release:
Updated: PowerPoint icons now look more capitalized
Fixed: skip-forward and skip-backward icons are now properly named
Fixed: mic and record icons no longer appear filled
Fixed: Codepoints for icon font will no longer change between versions
Upgraded SVGO to v2.3.0, bringing some minor SVG optimizations to ~200 icons
The update to codepoints is the most important change in this release. It ensures the content property values for each icon doesn’t change. This gives our icon font more stability between versions, allowing for easier upgrades and maintenance.
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June 22, 2021
