Bootstrap 4 Change Hamburger Toggler Color

Rehan picture Rehan · Mar 3, 2017 · Viewed 288.2k times · Source

I have a bootstrap website where the hamburger toggler is added when the screen size is less than 992px. The code is like so:

<button class="navbar-toggler navbar-toggler-right" 
        type="button" data-toggle="collapse" 
        data-target="#navbarSupportedContent" 
        aria-controls="navbarSupportedContent" 
        aria-expanded="false" 
        aria-label="Toggle navigation"> 
    <span class="navbar-toggler-icon"></span> 
</button>

Is there any possibility to change the color of the hamburger toggler button?

Answer

Zim picture Zim · Mar 3, 2017

The navbar-toggler-icon (hamburger) in Bootstrap 4 uses an SVG background-image. There are 2 "versions" of the toggler icon image. One for a light navbar, and one for a dark navbar...

  • Use navbar-dark for a light/white toggler on darker backgrounds
  • Use navbar-light for a dark/gray toggler on lighter backgrounds

// this is a black icon with 50% opacity
.navbar-light .navbar-toggler-icon {
  background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml;..");
}
// this is a white icon with 50% opacity
.navbar-dark .navbar-toggler-icon {
  background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml;..");
}

Therefore, if you want to change the color of the toggler image to something else, you can customize the icon. For example, here I set the RGB value to pink (255,102,203). Notice the stroke='rgba(255,102,203, 0.5)' value in the SVG data:

.custom-toggler .navbar-toggler-icon {
  background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml;charset=utf8,%3Csvg viewBox='0 0 32 32' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%3E%3Cpath stroke='rgba(255,102,203, 0.5)' stroke-width='2' stroke-linecap='round' stroke-miterlimit='10' d='M4 8h24M4 16h24M4 24h24'/%3E%3C/svg%3E");
}

.custom-toggler.navbar-toggler {
  border-color: rgb(255,102,203);
} 

Demo http://www.codeply.com/go/4FdZGlPMNV

OFC, another option to just use an icon from another library ie: Font Awesome, etc..


Update Bootstrap 4.0.0:

As of Bootstrap 4 Beta, navbar-inverse is now navbar-dark to use on navbars with darker background colors to produce lighter link and toggler colors.


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