How can I make space between two buttons in same div? - html

Question

What is the best way to horizontally space Bootstrap buttons?
At the moment the buttons are touching:
<div class="btn-group">
<button class="btn btn-inverse dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown">
<i class="icon-in-button"></i>
Add to list
<span class="caret"/>
</button>
<ul class="dropdown-menu">
<li>
here
</li>
<li>
new
</li>
</ul>
<button class="btn btn-info">
<i class="icon-in-button"></i>
more
</button>
</div>
jsfiddle showing the problem: http://jsfiddle.net/hhimanshu/sYLRq/4/

Answer 1

Put them inside btn-toolbar or some other container, not btn-group. btn-group joins them together. More info on Bootstrap documentation.
Edit: The original question was for Bootstrap 2.x, but the same is still valid for Bootstrap 3 and Bootstrap 4.
In Bootstrap 4 you will need to add appropriate margin to your groups using utility classes, such as mx-2.

Answer 2

Just put the buttons in a class ( class="btn-toolbar" ) as told by bro Miroslav Popovic.It works awesome.
<div class="btn-toolbar">
<button type="button" id="btnSubmit" class="btn btn-primary btn-sm">Submit</button>
<button type="button" id="btnCancel" class="btn btn-primary btn-sm">Cancel</button>
</div>

Answer 3

You can use spacing for Bootstrap and no need for any additional CSS. Just add the classes to your buttons. This is for version 4.

Answer 4

What Dragan B suggested is right way to go for Bootstrap 4. I have put one example below. e.g. mr-3 is margin-right:1rem!important
<div class="btn-toolbar pull-right">
<button type="button" class="btn mr-3">btn1</button>
<button type="button" class="btn mr-3">btn2</button>
<button type="button" class="btn">btn3</button>
</div>
p.s: in my case I wanted my buttons to be displayed to the right of the screen and hence pull-right.

Answer 5

you should use bootstrap v.4
<div class="form-group row">
<div class="col-md-6">
<input type="button" class="btn form-control" id="btn1">
</div>
<div class="col-md-6">
<input type="button" class="btn form-control" id="btn2">
</div>
</div>

Answer 6

The easiest way in most situations is margin.
Where you can do :
button{
margin: 13px 12px 12px 10px;
}
OR
button{
margin: 13px;
}

Answer 7

Dragan B. solution is correct. In my case I needed the buttons to be spaced vertically when stacking so I added the mb-2 property to them.
<div class="btn-toolbar">
<button type="button" class="btn btn-primary mr-2 mb-2">First</button>
<button type="button" class="btn btn-primary mr-2 mb-2">Second</button>
<button type="button" class="btn btn-primary mr-2 mb-2">Third</button>
</div>

Answer 8

Here's another approach based on the documentation.
<div class="d-grid gap-2 d-md-flex" >
<button type="button" class="btn btn-outline-primary btn-sm">button1</button>
<button type="button" class="btn btn-outline-primary btn-sm">button2</button>
</div>

Answer 9

I used the Bootstrap 4 buttons plugin (https://getbootstrap.com/docs/4.0/components/buttons/#button-plugin)
and added the class rounded to the labels and the class mx-1 to the middle button to achieve the desired look and feel of separate radio buttons. Using the class btn-toolbar made the radio button circles appear for me which is not what I wanted. Hope this helps someone.
<div class="btn-group btn-group-toggle" data-toggle="buttons">
<label class="btn btn-secondary active rounded">
<input type="radio" name="options" id="option1" autocomplete="off" checked> Active
</label>
<label class="btn btn-secondary rounded mx-1">
<input type="radio" name="options" id="option2" autocomplete="off"> Radio
</label>
<label class="btn btn-secondary rounded">
<input type="radio" name="options" id="option3" autocomplete="off"> Radio
</label>
</div>

Answer 10

Another way to achieve this is to add a class .btn-space in your buttons
<button type="button" class="btn btn-outline-danger btn-space"
</button>
<button type="button" class="btn btn-outline-primary btn-space"
</button>
and define this class as follows
.btn-space {
margin-right: 15px;
}

Answer 11

I actual ran into the same requirement. I simply used CSS override like this
.navbar .btn-toolbar { margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0 }

Answer 12

if use Bootstrap, you can change with style like: If you want only in one page, then betwen head tags add .btn-group btn{margin-right:1rem;}
If is for all the web site add to css file

Answer 13

You could also just put the two buttons in a flexbox and set the gap with css
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.5.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<!-- Bootstrap -->
<link crossorigin="anonymous" href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/bootstrap#5.0.2/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css"
integrity="sha384-EVSTQN3/azprG1Anm3QDgpJLIm9Nao0Yz1ztcQTwFspd3yD65VohhpuuCOmLASjC" rel="stylesheet">
<script crossorigin="anonymous"
integrity="sha384-MrcW6ZMFYlzcLA8Nl+NtUVF0sA7MsXsP1UyJoMp4YLEuNSfAP+JcXn/tWtIaxVXM"
src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/bootstrap#5.0.2/dist/js/bootstrap.bundle.min.js"></script>
<div class="d-flex flex-row" style="gap:5px;">
<button type="button" class="btn btn-primary">Add to list</button>
<button type="button" class="btn btn-secondary">more</button>
</div>

Answer 14

I ended up doing something similar to what mark dibe did, but I needed to figure out the spacing for a slightly different manner.
The col-x classes in bootstrap can be an absolute lifesaver. I ended up doing something similar to this:
<div class="row col-12">
<div class="col-3">Title</div>
</div>
<div class="row col-12">
<div class="col-3">Bootstrap Switch</div>
<div>
This allowed me to align titles and input switches in a nicely spaced manner. The same idea can be applied to the buttons and allow you to stop the buttons from touching.
(Side note: I wanted this to be a comment on the above link, but my reputation is not high enough)