What are Badges in Bootstrap?
Bootstrap is a CSS framework built with a collection of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript tools used for building scalable web applications.
A Badge is a component that provides additional information about something or is used as an indicator about certain information.
Here is an example:
By using the
class="badge", we create a rectangular shape. we can also create different colors of badge using the bootstrap tags for different colors.
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class="badge bg-primary"- is for blue badge color -
class="badge bg-secondary"- is for grey badge color -
class="badge bg-success"- is for green badge color -
class="badge bg-danger"- is for red badge color -
class="badge bg-warning"- is for yellow badge color -
class="badge bg-info"- is for skyblue badge color
Code sample
We will create a file and name it home.html. We can see this here:
Badges will be used here as an indicator for alerting purposes.
We are going to use badge to indicate numbers in the HTML button tag: