Position navbar icons inline on mobile with Bootstrap 4? - html

Question

I'm trying to configure a navbar in Bootstrap 4 to display additional icons to left the hamburger menu that only display on mobile.
I'm not able to get the icons to display inline and can't sort out where i am going wrong.
I add the classes navbar-nav to the list, d-lg-none to hide on larger devices. Are there built in classes in bootstrap that can fix the alignment of these? I can't even sort out where i am going wrong.
HTML:
<nav class="navbar navbar-expand-lg">
<div class="container">
<a class="navbar-brand" href="#">
<img src="assets/images/logo-blue-sm.png" alt="">
</a>
<ul class="navbar-nav d-lg-none ml-auto navbar-icons ">
<li class="nav-item">
<a class="nav-link" href="tel:[phone]"><i class="fa fa-3x fa-map-marker"></i></a>
</li>
<li class="nav-item">
<a class="nav-link" href="tel:[phone]"><i class="fa fa-3x fa-comments"></i></a>
</li>
</ul>
<button class="navbar-toggler ml-auto" type="button" data-toggle="collapse" data-target="#navbarCollapse" aria-controls="navbarCollapse" aria-expanded="false" aria-label="Toggle navigation">
<span class="navbar-toggler-icon"> </span>
</button>
<div class="collapse navbar-collapse" id="navbarCollapse">
<ul class="navbar-nav ml-auto">
<li class="nav-item dropdown">
<a class="nav-link dropdown-toggle" href="#" id="docMenu" data-toggle="dropdown" aria-haspopup="true" aria-expanded="false">Experience</a>
<ul class="dropdown-menu" aria-labelledby="docMenu">
<li> <a class="dropdown-item" href="#">Our Story</a> </li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="nav-item border-0 d-none d-lg-inline-block align-self-center">
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</div>
</div>
</div>
</nav>
Additional CSS:
.navbar-icons .nav-item{
border-bottom:none;
padding:0 5px;
position:relative;
}

Answer 1

Based on your layout you could easily solve that using bootstrap flex utility classes Read more.
Just add d-flex and flex-row classes to the ul that contains the items:
<ul class="navbar-nav d-lg-none ml-auto navbar-icons d-flex flex-row">
this will change the uls display to flex and force the flex direction to be row style, so the items will be displayed side by side.
here is a very good guide to flexbox. try understanding the basics and using it together with the bootstrap flex classes.