tl;dr - TWBSColor - Generate your own Bootstrap navbar
Version notes:
- Online tool: Bootstrap 3.3.2+ / 4.0.0+
- This answer: Bootstrap 3.0.x
Available navbars
You've got two basic navbars:
<!-- A light one -->
<nav class="navbar navbar-default" role="navigation"></nav>
<!-- A dark one -->
<nav class="navbar navbar-inverse" role="navigation"></nav>
Default color usage
Here are the main colors and their usage:
#F8F8F8
: navbar background
#E7E7E7
: navbar border
#777
: default color
#333
: hover color (#5E5E5E
for .nav-brand
)
#555
: active color
#D5D5D5
: active background
Default style
If you want to put some custom style, here's the CSS you need to change:
/* navbar */
.navbar-default {
background-color: #F8F8F8;
border-color: #E7E7E7;
}
/* Title */
.navbar-default .navbar-brand {
color: #777;
}
.navbar-default .navbar-brand:hover,
.navbar-default .navbar-brand:focus {
color: #5E5E5E;
}
/* Link */
.navbar-default .navbar-nav > li > a {
color: #777;
}
.navbar-default .navbar-nav > li > a:hover,
.navbar-default .navbar-nav > li > a:focus {
color: #333;
}
.navbar-default .navbar-nav > .active > a,
.navbar-default .navbar-nav > .active > a:hover,
.navbar-default .navbar-nav > .active > a:focus {
color: #555;
background-color: #E7E7E7;
}
.navbar-default .navbar-nav > .open > a,
.navbar-default .navbar-nav > .open > a:hover,
.navbar-default .navbar-nav > .open > a:focus {
color: #555;
background-color: #D5D5D5;
}
/* Caret */
.navbar-default .navbar-nav > .dropdown > a .caret {
border-top-color: #777;
border-bottom-color: #777;
}
.navbar-default .navbar-nav > .dropdown > a:hover .caret,
.navbar-default .navbar-nav > .dropdown > a:focus .caret {
border-top-color: #333;
border-bottom-color: #333;
}
.navbar-default .navbar-nav > .open > a .caret,
.navbar-default .navbar-nav > .open > a:hover .caret,
.navbar-default .navbar-nav > .open > a:focus .caret {
border-top-color: #555;
border-bottom-color: #555;
}
/* Mobile version */
.navbar-default .navbar-toggle {
border-color: #DDD;
}
.navbar-default .navbar-toggle:hover,
.navbar-default .navbar-toggle:focus {
background-color: #DDD;
}
.navbar-default .navbar-toggle .icon-bar {
background-color: #CCC;
}
@media (max-width: 767px) {
.navbar-default .navbar-nav .open .dropdown-menu > li > a {
color: #777;
}
.navbar-default .navbar-nav .open .dropdown-menu > li > a:hover,
.navbar-default .navbar-nav .open .dropdown-menu > li > a:focus {
color: #333;
}
}
Custom colored navbar examples
Here are four examples of a custom colored navbar:
And the SCSS code:
$bgDefault : #e74c3c;
$bgHighlight : #c0392b;
$colDefault : #ecf0f1;
$colHighlight: #ffbbbc;
.navbar-default {
background-color: $bgDefault;
border-color: $bgHighlight;
.navbar-brand {
color: $colDefault;
&:hover, &:focus {
color: $colHighlight; }}
.navbar-text {
color: $colDefault; }
.navbar-nav {
> li {
> a {
color: $colDefault;
&:hover, &:focus {
color: $colHighlight; }}}
> .active {
> a, > a:hover, > a:focus {
color: $colHighlight;
background-color: $bgHighlight; }}
> .open {
> a, > a:hover, > a:focus {
color: $colHighlight;
background-color: $bgHighlight; }}}
.navbar-toggle {
border-color: $bgHighlight;
&:hover, &:focus {
background-color: $bgHighlight; }
.icon-bar {
background-color: $colDefault; }}
.navbar-collapse,
.navbar-form {
border-color: $colDefault; }
.navbar-link {
color: $colDefault;
&:hover {
color: $colHighlight; }}}
@media (max-width: 767px) {
.navbar-default .navbar-nav .open .dropdown-menu {
> li > a {
color: $colDefault;
&:hover, &:focus {
color: $colHighlight; }}
> .active {
> a, > a:hover, > a:focus, {
color: $colHighlight;
background-color: $bgHighlight; }}}
}
And finally, a little gift
I've just made a script which will allow you to generate your theme:
TWBSColor - Generate your own Bootstrap navbar
[Update]: TWBSColor now generates SCSS/SASS/Less/CSS code.
[Update]: From now, you can use Less as the default language provided by TWBSColor
[Update]: TWBSColor now supports drop down menus colorization
[Update]: TWBSColor now allows to choose your version (Bootstrap 4 support added)
ng-bootstrap and ngx-bootstrap are two different projects by two different project teams that are trying to accomplish more or less the same thing - allowing you to use Bootstrap in Angular (2+) without the use of jQuery.
They are both rebuilding the Bootstrap components using only Angular (no jQuery).The main differences are around which version of Bootstrap they support.
- ngx-bootstrap supports Bootstrap 3 and 4.
- ng-bootstrap supports Bootstrap 4 and requires Angular 5+.
This means that if you need to use Bootstrap version 3, then ngx-bootstrap is your only real option of the two. If you can use Bootstrap 4, then you can pick between the two projects.
The other (potentially significant) difference is the teams behind the projects. The key point to note in this regard is that the team behind ng-bootstrap was also responsible for angular-ui-bootstrap - the AngularJS (i.e. 1.x) version of the Bootstrap library.
Best Answer
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