Not able to position Bootstrap/popper dropdown menu to the right
I am learning to use css grid to make layout and use components from bootstrap. To begin with, I just want to be able to make a responsive drop down to the right corner. but it’s not working. I know its a very primitive question, but still not able to get it done. I know there would be many ways to do it. I would like to get to know a generic way using which I can accomplish many other things as well. Code is:
index.html is
<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title> Bootstrap </title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css"> <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.5.0/css/bootstrap.min.css" integrity="sha384-9aIt2nRpC12Uk9gS9baDl411NQApFmC26EwAOH8WgZl5MYYxFfc+NcPb1dKGj7Sk" crossorigin="anonymous"> </head> <body> <div id="mydiv"> <ul> <li class="nav-item dropdown"> <a class="nav-link dropdown-toggle" href="#" id="mydiv" role="button" data-toggle="dropdown" aria-haspopup="true" aria-expanded="false"> Dropdown </a> <div class="dropdown-menu" aria-labelledby="navbarDropdown"> <a class="dropdown-item" href="#">Action</a> <a class="dropdown-item" href="#">Another action</a> <div class="dropdown-divider"></div> <a class="dropdown-item" href="#">Something else here</a> </div> </li> </ul> </div> <script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.5.1.slim.min.js" integrity="sha384-DfXdz2htPH0lsSSs5nCTpuj/zy4C+OGpamoFVy38MVBnE+IbbVYUew+OrCXaRkfj" crossorigin="anonymous"></script> <script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/[email protected]/dist/umd/popper.min.js" integrity="sha384-Q6E9RHvbIyZFJoft+2mJbHaEWldlvI9IOYy5n3zV9zzTtmI3UksdQRVvoxMfooAo" crossorigin="anonymous"></script> <script src="https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.5.0/js/bootstrap.min.js" integrity="sha384-OgVRvuATP1z7JjHLkuOU7Xw704+h835Lr+6QL9UvYjZE3Ipu6Tp75j7Bh/kR0JKI" crossorigin="anonymous"></script> </body> </html> style.css is
.container { display:grid; grid-template-columns: 900px; } Edit: Actually right now my purpose is to learn CSS grid out of interest. I have heard that many things can be accomplished by float,flexbox etc, but since I am new, I don’t want to learn too many things, I just want to learn CSS Grid so well that I can accomplish even basic things using this quickly. And using dropdown from bootstrap library was just a quick way to get dropdown code to learn CSS grid concept to apply on
You need to do 2 things:
- Bootstrap have a class for this
dropdown-menu-right, so just just need add this to your dropdown div:<div class="dropdown-menu dropdown-menu-right" aria-labelledby="navbarDropdown"> - Align the contents of
#mydivto the right so that the "Dropdown" label appears on the right:#mydiv { text-align:right; }
Working snippet to see it in action (note I’ve also added list-style:none; to the <ul> to remove the bullet from before the dropdown):
li.nav-item.dropdown{ text-align:right; list-style:none; }<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.5.0/css/bootstrap.min.css" integrity="sha384-9aIt2nRpC12Uk9gS9baDl411NQApFmC26EwAOH8WgZl5MYYxFfc+NcPb1dKGj7Sk" crossorigin="anonymous"> <div id="mydiv"> <ul> <li class="nav-item dropdown"> <a class="nav-link dropdown-toggle" href="#" id="mydiv" role="button" data-toggle="dropdown" aria-haspopup="true" aria-expanded="false"> Dropdown </a> <div class="dropdown-menu dropdown-menu-right" aria-labelledby="navbarDropdown"> <a class="dropdown-item" href="#">Action</a> <a class="dropdown-item" href="#">Another action</a> <div class="dropdown-divider"></div> <a class="dropdown-item" href="#">Something else here</a> </div> </li> </ul> </div> <script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.5.1.slim.min.js" integrity="sha384-DfXdz2htPH0lsSSs5nCTpuj/zy4C+OGpamoFVy38MVBnE+IbbVYUew+OrCXaRkfj" crossorigin="anonymous"></script> <script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/[email protected]/dist/umd/popper.min.js" integrity="sha384-Q6E9RHvbIyZFJoft+2mJbHaEWldlvI9IOYy5n3zV9zzTtmI3UksdQRVvoxMfooAo" crossorigin="anonymous"></script> <script src="https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.5.0/js/bootstrap.min.js" integrity="sha384-OgVRvuATP1z7JjHLkuOU7Xw704+h835Lr+6QL9UvYjZE3Ipu6Tp75j7Bh/kR0JKI" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
D you need such a result?
.nav-item { display: flex; justify-content: flex-end; }<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title> Bootstrap </title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css"> <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.5.0/css/bootstrap.min.css" integrity="sha384-9aIt2nRpC12Uk9gS9baDl411NQApFmC26EwAOH8WgZl5MYYxFfc+NcPb1dKGj7Sk" crossorigin="anonymous"> </head> <body> <div id="mydiv"> <ul> <li class="nav-item dropdown"> <a class="nav-link dropdown-toggle" href="#" id="mydiv" role="button" data-toggle="dropdown" aria-haspopup="true" aria-expanded="false"> Dropdown </a> <div class="dropdown-menu" aria-labelledby="navbarDropdown"> <a class="dropdown-item" href="#">Action</a> <a class="dropdown-item" href="#">Another action</a> <div class="dropdown-divider"></div> <a class="dropdown-item" href="#">Something else here</a> </div> </li> </ul> </div> <script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.5.1.slim.min.js" integrity="sha384-DfXdz2htPH0lsSSs5nCTpuj/zy4C+OGpamoFVy38MVBnE+IbbVYUew+OrCXaRkfj" crossorigin="anonymous"></script> <script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/[email protected]/dist/umd/popper.min.js" integrity="sha384-Q6E9RHvbIyZFJoft+2mJbHaEWldlvI9IOYy5n3zV9zzTtmI3UksdQRVvoxMfooAo" crossorigin="anonymous"></script> <script src="https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.5.0/js/bootstrap.min.js" integrity="sha384-OgVRvuATP1z7JjHLkuOU7Xw704+h835Lr+6QL9UvYjZE3Ipu6Tp75j7Bh/kR0JKI" crossorigin="anonymous"></script> </body> </html>
