Bootstrap 4 align navbar items to the right

Question

How do I align a navbar item to right?

I want to have the login and register to the right. But everything I try does not seem to work.

This is what I have tried so far:

• <div> around the <ul> with the atribute: style="float: right"
• <div> around the <ul> with the atribute: style="text-align: right"
• tried those two things on the <li> tags
• tried all those things again with !important added to the end
• changed nav-item to nav-right in the <li>
• added a pull-sm-right class to the <li>
• added a align-content-end class to the <li>

This is my code:

<div id="app" class="container">
  <nav class="navbar navbar-toggleable-md navbar-light bg-faded">
    <button class="navbar-toggler navbar-toggler-right" type="button" data-toggle="collapse" data-target="#navbarNavDropdown" aria-controls="navbarNavDropdown" aria-expanded="false" aria-label="Toggle navigation">
      <span class="navbar-toggler-icon"></span>
    </button>
    <a class="navbar-brand" href="#">Navbar</a>
    <ul class="navbar-nav">
      <li class="nav-item active">
        <a class="nav-link" href="#">Home <span class="sr-only">(current)</span></a>
      </li>
      <li class="nav-item">
        <a class="nav-link" href="#">Features</a>
      </li>
      <li class="nav-item">
        <a class="nav-link" href="#">Pricingg</a>
      </li>
    </ul>
    <ul class="navbar-nav " >
      <li  class="nav-item">
        <a class="nav-link" href="{{ url('/login') }}">Login</a>
      </li>
      <li  class="nav-item">
        <a class="nav-link" href="{{ url('/register') }}">Register</a>
      </li>
    </ul>
  </nav>
  @yield('content')
</div>

Answer 1

Bootstrap 4 has many different ways to align navbar items. float-right won't work because the navbar is now flexbox.

You can use mr-auto for auto right margin on the 1st (left) navbar-nav. Alternatively, ml-auto could be used on the 2nd (right) navbar-nav , or if you just have a single navbar-nav.

<nav class="navbar navbar-expand-md navbar-light bg-light">
    <a class="navbar-brand" href="#">Navbar</a>
    <button class="navbar-toggler" type="button" data-toggle="collapse" data-target="#navbarNav">
        <span class="navbar-toggler-icon"></span>
    </button>
    <div class="collapse navbar-collapse" id="navbarNav">
        <ul class="navbar-nav mr-auto">
            <li class="nav-item active">
                <a class="nav-link" href="#">Home <span class="sr-only">(current)</span></a>
            </li>
            <li class="nav-item">
                <a class="nav-link" href="#">Features</a>
            </li>
            <li class="nav-item">
                <a class="nav-link" href="#">Pricing</a>
            </li>
        </ul>
        <ul class="navbar-nav">
            <li class="nav-item">
                <a class="nav-link" href="#">Login</a>
            </li>
            <li class="nav-item">
                <a class="nav-link" href="#">Register</a>
            </li>
        </ul>
    </div>
</nav>

https://codeply.com/go/P0G393rzfm

There are also flexbox utils. In this case, you have 2 navbar-navs, so justify-content-between in navbar-collapse would work the even the space between them,

 <div class="navbar-collapse collapse justify-content-between">
     <ul class="navbar-nav mr-auto">
               ..
     </ul>
     <ul class="navbar-nav">
           ..
     </ul>
 </div>

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**Update for Bootstrap 4.0 and newer**

As of Bootstrap 4 beta, ml-auto will still work to push items to the right. Just be aware the the navbar-toggleable- classes have changed to navbar-expand-*

Updated navbar right for Bootstrap 4

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Another frequent Bootstrap 4 Navbar right alignment scenario includes a button on the right that remains outside the mobile collapse nav so that it is always shown at all widths.

Right align button that is always visible

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Related: Bootstrap NavBar with left, center or right aligned items