Typography

Documentation and examples for Bootstrap typography, including global settings, headings, body text, lists, and more.

Headings

All HTML headings, level="1" through level="6", are available.

h1. Bootstrap heading

h2. Bootstrap heading

h3. Bootstrap heading

h4. Bootstrap heading

h5. Bootstrap heading
h6. Bootstrap heading
vue
<template>
 <b-h level="1">
  h1. Bootstrap heading
 </b-h>
 <b-h level="2">
  h2. Bootstrap heading
 </b-h>
 <b-h level="3">
  h3. Bootstrap heading
 </b-h>
 <b-h level="4">
  h4. Bootstrap heading
 </b-h>
 <b-h level="5">
  h5. Bootstrap heading
 </b-h>
 <b-h level="6">
  h6. Bootstrap heading
 </b-h>
</template>

headings="1" through headings="6" classes are also available, for when you want to match the font styling of a heading but cannot use the associated HTML element.

h1. Bootstrap heading

h2. Bootstrap heading

h3. Bootstrap heading

h4. Bootstrap heading

h5. Bootstrap heading

h6. Bootstrap heading

vue
<template>
 <b-p headings="1">
  h1. Bootstrap heading
 </b-p>
 <b-p headings="2">
  h2. Bootstrap heading
 </b-p>
 <b-p headings="3">
  h3. Bootstrap heading
 </b-p>
 <b-p headings="4">
  h4. Bootstrap heading
 </b-p>
 <b-p headings="5">
  h5. Bootstrap heading
 </b-p>
 <b-p headings="6">
  h6. Bootstrap heading
 </b-p>
</template>

Customizing headings

Use the included text-color attribute to recreate the small secondary heading text from Bootstrap 3.

Fancy display heading With faded secondary text

vue
<template>
 <b-h level="3">
  Fancy display heading
  <BInline
   tag="small"
   text-color="body-secondary"
  >
   With faded secondary text
  </BInline>
 </b-h>
</template>

Display headings

Traditional heading elements are designed to work best in the meat of your page content. When you need a heading to stand out, consider using a display-headings attribute —a larger, slightly more opinionated heading style.

Display 1

Display 2

Display 3

Display 4

Display 5

Display 6

vue
<template>
 <b-h
  level="1"
  display-headings="1"
 >
  Display 1
 </b-h>
 <b-h
  level="1"
  display-headings="2"
 >
  Display 2
 </b-h>
 <b-h
  level="1"
  display-headings="3"
 >
  Display 3
 </b-h>
 <b-h
  level="1"
  display-headings="4"
 >
  Display 4
 </b-h>
 <b-h
  level="1"
  display-headings="5"
 >
  Display 5
 </b-h>
 <b-h
  level="1"
  display-headings="6"
 >
  Display 6
 </b-h>
</template>

Lead

Make a paragraph stand out by adding lead attribute.

This is a lead paragraph. It stands out from regular paragraphs.

vue
<template>
 <b-p lead>
  This is a lead paragraph. It stands out from regular paragraphs.
 </b-p>
</template>

Inline text elements

Styling for common inline HTML5 elements.

You can use the mark tag to highlight text.

This line of text is meant to be treated as no longer accurate.

This line of text is meant to be treated as no longer accurate.

This line of text will render as underlined.

This line of text is meant to be treated as fine print.

This line rendered as bold text.

This line rendered as italicized text.

vue
<template>
 <b-p>
  You can use the mark tag to
  <mark>highlight</mark>
  text.
 </b-p>
 <b-p>
  <del>This line of text is meant to be treated as no longer accurate.</del>
 </b-p>
 <b-p>
  <s>This line of text is meant to be treated as no longer accurate.</s>
 </b-p>
 <b-p>
  <u>This line of text will render as underlined.</u>
 </b-p>
 <b-p>
  <small>This line of text is meant to be treated as fine print.</small>
 </b-p>
 <b-p><strong>This line rendered as bold text.</strong></b-p>
 <b-p><em>This line rendered as italicized text.</em></b-p>
</template>

Beware that those tags should be used for semantic purpose:

  • mark represents text which is marked or highlighted for reference or notation purposes.
  • small represents side-comments and small print, like copyright and legal text.
  • <s> represents element that are no longer relevant or no longer accurate.
  • <u> represents a span of inline text which should be rendered in a way that indicates that it has a non-textual annotation.

If you want to style your text, you should use the following classes instead:

  • mark will apply the same styles as mark.
  • small will apply the same styles as small.
  • .textDecoration = "underline" will apply the same styles as <u>.
  • .textDecoration = "line-through" will apply the same styles as <s>.

While not shown above, feel free to use <b> and <i> in HTML5.

<b> is meant to highlight words or phrases without conveying additional importance, while <i> is mostly for voice, technical terms, etc.

You can use the mark tag to highlight text.

This line of text is meant to be treated as no longer accurate.

This line of text is meant to be treated as deleted text.

This line of text will render as underlined.

This line of text is meant to be treated as fine print.

This line rendered as bold text.

This line rendered as italicized text.

vue
<template>
 <b-p>
  You can use the mark tag to
  <BInline mark>
   highlight
  </BInline>
  text.
 </b-p>
 <b-p>
  <BInline text-decoration="line-through">
   This line of text is meant to be treated as no longer accurate.
  </BInline>
 </b-p>
 <b-p>
  <BInline tag="del">
   This line of text is meant to be treated as deleted text.
  </BInline>
 </b-p>
 <b-p>
  <BInline text-decoration="underline">
   This line of text will render as underlined.
  </BInline>
 </b-p>
 <b-p>
  <BInline small>
   This line of text is meant to be treated as fine print.
  </BInline>
 </b-p>
 <b-p>
  <BInline tag="strgong">
   This line rendered as bold text.
  </BInline>
 </b-p>
 <b-p>
  <BInline tag="em">
   This line rendered as italicized text.
  </BInline>
 </b-p>
</template>

Text utilities

Change text alignment, transform, style, weight, line-height, decoration and color with our text utilities and color utilities .

Abbreviations

Stylized implementation of HTML's <abbr> element for abbreviations and acronyms to show the expanded version on hover.

Abbreviations have a default underline and gain a help cursor to provide additional context on hover and to users of assistive technologies.

Add initialism attribute to an abbreviation for a slightly smaller font-size.

attr

HTML

vue
<template>
 <b-p>
  <abbr title="attribute">
   attr
  </abbr>
 </b-p>
 <b-p>
  <BInline
   tag="abbr"
   title="HyperText Markup Language"
   initialism
  >
   HTML
  </BInline>
 </b-p>
</template>

Lists

Unstyled

Remove the default list-style and left margin on list items (immediate children only).

This only applies to immediate children list items, meaning you will need to add the class for any nested lists as well.

  • This is a ListItemst.
  • It appears completely unstyled.
  • Structurally, it's still a ListItemst.
  • However, this style only appListItemes to immediate child elements.
  • Nested ListItemsts:
    • are unaffected by this style
    • will still show a bullet
    • and have appropriate left margin
  • This may still come in handy in some situations.
vue
<template>
 <List unstyled>
  <ListItem>This is a ListItemst.</ListItem>
  <ListItem>It appears completely unstyled.</ListItem>
  <ListItem>Structurally, it's still a ListItemst.</ListItem>
  <ListItem>However, this style only appListItemes to immediate child elements.</ListItem>
  <ListItem>
   Nested ListItemsts:
   <List>
    <ListItem>are unaffected by this style</ListItem>
    <ListItem>will still show a bullet</ListItem>
    <ListItem>and have appropriate left margin</ListItem>
   </List>
  </ListItem>
  <ListItem>This may still come in handy in some situations.</ListItem>
 </List>
</template>

Inline

Remove a list's bullets and apply some light margin with a combination of two classes, inline attribute.

  • This is a list item.
  • And another one.
  • But they're displayed inline.
vue
<template>
 <List inline>
  <ListItem inline>
   This is a list item.
  </ListItem>
  <ListItem inline>
   And another one.
  </ListItem>
  <ListItem inline>
   But they're displayed inline.
  </ListItem>
 </List>
</template>

Description list alignment

Align terms and descriptions horizontally by using our grid system's predefined classes (or semantic mixins).

For longer terms, you can optionally add a text-truncate attribute to truncate the text with an ellipsis.

Description lists
A description list is perfect for defining terms.
Term

Definition for the term.

And some more placeholder definition text.

Another term
This definition is short, so no extra paragraphs or anything.
Truncated term is truncated
This can be useful when space is tight. Adds an ellipsis at the end.
Nesting
Nested definition list
I heard you like definition lists. Let me put a definition list inside your definition list.
vue
<template>
 <b-dl>
  <b-dt col="sm-3">
   Description lists
  </b-dt>
  <b-dd col="sm-9">
   A description list is perfect for defining terms.
  </b-dd>
  <b-dt col="sm-3">
   Term
  </b-dt>
  <b-dd col="sm-9">
   <b-p>Definition for the term.</b-p>
   <b-p>And some more placeholder definition text.</b-p>
  </b-dd>
  <b-dt col="sm-3">
   Another term
  </b-dt>
  <b-dd col="sm-9">
   This definition is short, so no extra paragraphs or anything.
  </b-dd>
  <b-dt
   col="sm-3"
   text-truncate
  >
   Truncated term is truncated
  </b-dt>
  <b-dd col="sm-9">
   This can be useful when space is tight. Adds an ellipsis at the end.
  </b-dd>
  <b-dt col="sm-3">
   Nesting
  </b-dt>
  <b-dd col="sm-9">
   <b-dl>
    <b-dt col="sm-4">
     Nested definition list
    </b-dt>
    <b-dd col="sm-8">
     I heard you like definition lists. Let me put a definition list inside
     your definition list.
    </b-dd>
   </b-dl>
  </b-dd>
 </b-dl>
</template>

Extend

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vue
<template>
 <HeroRow
  text-alignment="center"
  size="md-8"
 >
  <b-div
   margin="x-auto"
  >
   <b-h level="2">
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   </b-h>
  </b-div>
 </HeroRow>
 <HeroRow text-alignment="center">
  <List inline>
   <ListItem
    inline
    icon="bi:check"
    icon-color="primary"
   >
    Real-time collaboration
   </ListItem>
   <ListItem
    inline
    icon="bi:check"
    icon-color="primary"
   >
    News and updates
   </ListItem>
   <ListItem
    inline
    icon="bi:check"
    icon-color="primary"
   >
    Workshops and seminars
   </ListItem>
  </List>
 </HeroRow>
 <Row columns="1 md-3">
  <Col>
   <Card
    relative-height="100"
    class="hover:-un-translate-y-0.5"
   >
    <CardImgTop src="/unsplash/image/480x220/redd-f-5U_28ojjgms-unsplash.jpg" />
    <CardBody>
     <CardTitle>Edge App</Cardtitle>
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     <List unstyled>
      <ListItem icon="bi:chevron-right">
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      </ListItem>
      <ListItem icon="bi:chevron-right">
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      </ListItem>
      <ListItem icon="bi:chevron-right">
       Project Management
      </ListItem>
     </List>
    </CardBody>

    <CardFooter>
     <CardLink
      stretched
      to="/"
      icon="bi:chevron-right"
      icon-end
     >
      Discover more
     </CardLink>
    </CardFooter>
   </Card>
  </Col>
  <Col>
   <Card
    relative-height="100"
    class="hover:-un-translate-y-0.5"
   >
    <CardImgTop src="/unsplash/image/480x220/dlxmedia-hu-U-W8FKeC6Mo-unsplash.jpg" />
    <CardBody>
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     <List unstyled>
      <ListItem icon="bi:chevron-right">
       User Engagement
      </ListItem>
      <ListItem icon="bi:chevron-right">
       Content Creation
      </ListItem>
      <ListItem icon="bi:chevron-right">
       Team Collaboration
      </ListItem>
     </List>
    </CardBody>

    <CardFooter>
     <CardLink
      stretched
      to="/"
      icon="bi:chevron-right"
      icon-end
     >
      Learn more
     </CardLink>
    </CardFooter>
   </Card>
  </Col>
  <Col>
   <Card
    relative-height="100"
    class="hover:-un-translate-y-0.5"
   >
    <CardImgTop src="/unsplash/image/480x220/unseen-studio-s9CC2SKySJM-unsplash.jpg" />
    <CardBody>
     <CardTitle>Pulse App</CardTitle>
     <CardText>Pulse App helps you stay connected on the go.</CardText>
     <List unstyled>
      <ListItem icon="bi:chevron-right">
       Instant Messaging
      </ListItem>
      <ListItem icon="bi:chevron-right">
       Social Media Integration
      </ListItem>
      <ListItem icon="bi:chevron-right">
       Event Scheduling
      </ListItem>
     </List>
    </CardBody>

    <CardFooter>
     <CardLink
      stretched
      to="/"
      icon="bi:chevron-right"
      icon-end
     >
      Explore more
     </CardLink>
    </CardFooter>
   </Card>
  </Col>
 </Row>
</template>

See Also

Heading block

Reboot

Text truncation

Opacity

Text