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Bootstrap 4 – Mobile Nav Bar Slide from Left / Right

Do you want to change the default behaviour of the Bootstrap 4 navbar? Well, you’re at the right place. The default menu for mobile is a hamburger menu when clicked it will slide to the menu items.

There are various ways to do this using jQuery/JavaScript but the best way, in our opinion, is just using plain old CSS.

So to do this, we can override the transition styles for the navbar-collapse as follows:-

Mobile Nav – Slide from Left


@media (max-width: 768px) {
    .navbar-collapse {
        position: absolute;
        top: 54px;
        left: 0;
        padding-left: 15px;
        padding-right: 15px;
        padding-bottom: 15px;
        width: 100%;
    }
    .navbar-collapse.collapsing {
        height: auto;
        -webkit-transition: left 0.3s ease;
        -o-transition: left 0.3s ease;
        -moz-transition: left 0.3s ease;
        transition: left 0.3s ease;
        left: -100%;
    }
    .navbar-collapse.show {
        left: 0;
        -webkit-transition: left 0.3s ease-in;
        -o-transition: left 0.3s ease-in;
        -moz-transition: left 0.3s ease-in;
        transition: left 0.3s ease-in;
    }
}

Mobile Nav – Slide from Right


@media (max-width: 992px) {
    .navbar-collapse {
        position: absolute;
        top: 54px;
        right: 100%;
        padding-left: 15px;
        padding-right: 15px;
        padding-bottom: 15px;
        width: 100%;
        transition: all 0.3s ease;
        display: block;
    }
    .navbar-collapse.collapsing {
        height: auto !important;
        margin-right: 50%;
        transition: all 0.3s ease;
        display: block;
    }
    .navbar-collapse.show {
        right: 0;
    }
}

We hope this quick tutorial has helped you. If you require any further assistance just leave a comment below.

 

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Nathan is the Founder of Silva Web Designs. He is passionate about web development, website design and basically anything digital-related. His main expertise is with WordPress and various other CMS frameworks. If you need responsive design, SEO, speed optimisation or anything else in the world of digital, you can contact Silva Web Designs here; [email protected]

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8 thoughts on “Bootstrap 4 – Mobile Nav Bar Slide from Left / Right

    1. It’s best to override the styles as you may want to update the Boostrap CSS in future, especially since Boostrap 5 alpha is out and we will soon be updating from Bootstrap 4. Simply add it to your style.css or custom.css which you can call in your functions.php. You can override them as well in Customizer CSS, although the latter is the preferred way to implement this.

    1. Ok. I’ve fixed it. Just add background:white to .navbar-collapse class and add transition:height 0s to .navbar-collapse.collapsing class. Thanks

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