How to Create Three Dots Dropdown Menu in Bootstrap 5

1 year ago admin Bootstrap

In today's lesson, we will see how to create a three dots dropdown menu in Bootstrap 5, as we know bootstrap does not provide a three dots menu component but we can create our own dots menu in a simple way.


Create the three dots menu

First, we need font awesome for icons we will grab a CDN link, and next, we will use the bootstrap dropdown menu to create our three dots menu.

Demo

                                                    
                                                                                                                
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
  <head>
    <!-- Required meta tags -->
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">

    <!-- Bootstrap CSS -->
    <link href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/bootstrap@5.0.2/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet" integrity="sha384-EVSTQN3/azprG1Anm3QDgpJLIm9Nao0Yz1ztcQTwFspd3yD65VohhpuuCOmLASjC" crossorigin="anonymous">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/6.4.0/css/all.min.css" integrity="sha512-iecdLmaskl7CVkqkXNQ/ZH/XLlvWZOJyj7Yy7tcenmpD1ypASozpmT/E0iPtmFIB46ZmdtAc9eNBvH0H/ZpiBw==" crossorigin="anonymous" referrerpolicy="no-referrer" />
    <title>Dot Menu</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <div class="container">
        <div class="row my-5">
            <div class="col-md-10 mx-auto">
                <div class="card">
                    <div class="card-body">
                        <div class="dropdown ms-auto">
                            <i class="fas fa-ellipsis-vertical" data-bs-toggle="dropdown" aria-expanded="false"></i>
                            <ul class="dropdown-menu">
                              <li>
                                <span class="dropdown-item">
                                  <i class="fas fa-pen mx-2"></i> Update
                                </span>
                              </li>
                              <li>
                                <span class="dropdown-item">
                                    <i class="fas fa-trash mx-2"></i> Delete
                                </span>
                              </li>
                            </ul>
                        </div>
                    </div>
                </div>
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>
    <script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/bootstrap@5.0.2/dist/js/bootstrap.bundle.min.js" integrity="sha384-MrcW6ZMFYlzcLA8Nl+NtUVF0sA7MsXsP1UyJoMp4YLEuNSfAP+JcXn/tWtIaxVXM" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
  </body>
</html>