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    Bootstrap Badges: Styling and Usage Guide

    Rumman Ansari July 05, 2024 6,034 views
    Bootstrap Badges: Styling and Usage Guide

    badges with Heading

    Badges are used to add additional information to any content. Use the .badge class together with a contextual class (like .badge-secondary) within elements to create rectangular badges. Note that badges scale to match the size of the parent element (if any):

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<div class="container">
  <h2 id="article-heading-3">Badges</h2>
  <h1>Example heading <span class="badge badge-secondary">information</span></h1>
  <h2 id="article-heading-4">Example heading <span class="badge badge-secondary">information</span></h2>
  <h3 id="article-heading-5">Example heading <span class="badge badge-secondary">information</span></h3>
  <h4>Example heading <span class="badge badge-secondary">information</span></h4>
  <h5>Example heading <span class="badge badge-secondary">information</span></h5>
  <h6>Example heading <span class="badge badge-secondary">information</span></h6>
</div>

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<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <title>Bootstrap Example</title>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.1.0/css/bootstrap.min.css">
  <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
  <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/popper.js/1.14.0/umd/popper.min.js"></script>
  <script src="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.1.0/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>

<div class="container">
  <h2 id="article-heading-7">Badges</h2>
  <h1>Example heading <span class="badge badge-secondary">infomation</span></h1>
  <h2 id="article-heading-8">Example heading <span class="badge badge-secondary">infomation</span></h2>
  <h3 id="article-heading-9">Example heading <span class="badge badge-secondary">infomation</span></h3>
  <h4>Example heading <span class="badge badge-secondary">infomation</span></h4>
  <h5>Example heading <span class="badge badge-secondary">infomation</span></h5>
  <h6>Example heading <span class="badge badge-secondary">infomation</span></h6>
</div>

</body>
</html>
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    Contextual Badges

    Use any of the contextual classes (.badge-*) to change the color of a badge:

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<div class="container">
  <h2 id="article-heading-12">Contextual Badges</h2>
  <span class="badge badge-primary">Primary</span>
  <span class="badge badge-secondary">Secondary</span>
  <span class="badge badge-success">Success</span>
  <span class="badge badge-danger">Danger</span>
  <span class="badge badge-warning">Warning</span>
  <span class="badge badge-info">Info</span>
  <span class="badge badge-light">Light</span>
  <span class="badge badge-dark">Dark</span>
</div>

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<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <title>Bootstrap Example</title>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.1.0/css/bootstrap.min.css">
  <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
  <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/popper.js/1.14.0/umd/popper.min.js"></script>
  <script src="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.1.0/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>

<div class="container">
  <h2 id="article-heading-14">Contextual Badges</h2>
  <span class="badge badge-primary">Primary</span>
  <span class="badge badge-secondary">Secondary</span>
  <span class="badge badge-success">Success</span>
  <span class="badge badge-danger">Danger</span>
  <span class="badge badge-warning">Warning</span>
  <span class="badge badge-info">Info</span>
  <span class="badge badge-light">Light</span>
  <span class="badge badge-dark">Dark</span>
</div>

</body>
</html>
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    Pill Badges

    Use the .badge-pill class to make the badges more round:

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<div class="container">
  <h2 id="article-heading-17">Pill Badges</h2>
  <span class="badge badge-pill badge-primary">Primary Badges</span>
  <span class="badge badge-pill badge-secondary">Secondary Badges</span>
  <span class="badge badge-pill badge-success">Success Badges</span>
  <span class="badge badge-pill badge-danger">Danger Badges</span>
  <span class="badge badge-pill badge-warning">Warning Badges</span>
  <span class="badge badge-pill badge-info">Info Badges</span>
  <span class="badge badge-pill badge-light">Light Badges</span>
  <span class="badge badge-pill badge-dark">Dark Badges</span>
</div>

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<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <title>Bootstrap Example</title>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.1.0/css/bootstrap.min.css">
  <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
  <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/popper.js/1.14.0/umd/popper.min.js"></script>
  <script src="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.1.0/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>

<div class="container">
  <h2 id="article-heading-19">Pill Badges</h2>
  <span class="badge badge-pill badge-primary">Primary Badges</span>
  <span class="badge badge-pill badge-secondary">Secondary Badges</span>
  <span class="badge badge-pill badge-success">Success Badges</span>
  <span class="badge badge-pill badge-danger">Danger Badges</span>
  <span class="badge badge-pill badge-warning">Warning Badges</span>
  <span class="badge badge-pill badge-info">Info Badges</span>
  <span class="badge badge-pill badge-light">Light Badges</span>
  <span class="badge badge-pill badge-dark">Dark Badges</span>
</div>

</body>
</html>
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    Badge inside an Element

    An example of using a badge inside a button:

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<div class="container">
  <h2 id="article-heading-22">Badge inside a Button</h2>
  <button type="button" class="btn btn-primary">
    Messages <span class="badge badge-light">10</span>
  </button>
  <button type="button" class="btn btn-danger">
    Notifications <span class="badge badge-light">17</span>
  </button>
</div>

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<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <title>Bootstrap Example</title>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.1.0/css/bootstrap.min.css">
  <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
  <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/popper.js/1.14.0/umd/popper.min.js"></script>
  <script src="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.1.0/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>

<div class="container">
  <h2 id="article-heading-24">Badge inside a Button</h2>
  <button type="button" class="btn btn-primary">
    Messages <span class="badge badge-light">10</span>
  </button>
  <button type="button" class="btn btn-danger">
    Notifications <span class="badge badge-light">17</span>
  </button>
</div>

</body>
</html>
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