Twitter Bootstrap Dropdown JavaScript Plugin

Last update on August 19 2022 21:50:44 (UTC/GMT +8 hours)

Introduction

With Dropdown JavaScript Plugin, you may create Dropdown menus to almost anything in Twitter Bootstrap. Bootstrap has full support for creating a dropdown menu on the navbar, tabs, and pills.

What is required to use this plugin

You have to include jquery.js and bootstrap-dropdown.js files. Both are present within twitter-bootstrap-v2/docs/assets/js folder. And then you can call the dropdowns via javascript. The following example shows how to do that.

Example

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <meta charset="utf-8" />
    <title>Bootstrap dropdown with navbar example</title>
    <link href="/twitter-bootstrap/twitter-bootstrap-v2/docs/assets/css/bootstrap.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
</head>
<body>
    <div class="navbar">
        <div class="navbar-inner">
            <div class="container">
                <ul class="nav">
                    <a class="brand" href="#">w3resource</a>
                    <li class="active"><a href="#">Home</a></li>
                    <li><a href="#">Blog</a></li>
                    <li><a href="#">About</a></li>
                    <li><a href="#">Contact</a></li>
                    <li class="dropdown" id="accountmenu">
                        <a class="dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown" href="#">Tutorials<b class="caret"></b></a>
                        <ul class="dropdown-menu">
                            <li><a href="#">PHP</a></li>
                            <li><a href="#">MySQL</a></li>
                            <li class="divider"></li>
                            <li><a href="#">JavaScript</a></li>
							<li><a href="#">HTML5</a></li>
                        </ul>
                    </li>
                </ul>
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>
    <div class="container-fluid">
     <h1>Dropdown Example</h1>
    </div>
	<script type="text/javascript" src="/twitter-bootstrap/twitter-bootstrap-v2/docs/assets/js/jquery.js"></script>
	<script type="text/javascript" src="/twitter-bootstrap/twitter-bootstrap-v2/docs/assets/js/bootstrap-dropdown.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript">
        $(document).ready(function () {
            $('.dropdown-toggle').dropdown();
        });
   </script>
</body>
</html>

In the above example, it is shown how to create a dropdown with JavaScript plugin, on Navbar.

View the example online.

You can apply Dropdown JavaScript Plugin on tabs and pills also. The following example shows how to do that.

Example

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <meta charset="utf-8" />
    <title>Bootstrap dropdown with tabs and pills example</title>
    <link href="/twitter-bootstrap/twitter-bootstrap-v2/docs/assets/css/bootstrap.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
</head>
<body>
    <ul class="nav nav-pills">
    <li class="dropdown all-camera-dropdown">
           <a class="dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown" href="#">
            Tutorials
               <b class="caret"></b>
           </a>
    <ul class="dropdown-menu">
            <li data-filter-camera-type="all"><a data-toggle="tab" href="#">HTML5</a></li>
            <li data-filter-camera-type="Alpha"><a data-toggle="tab" href="#">PHP</a></li>
            <li data-filter-camera-type="Zed"><a data-toggle="tab" href="#">MySQL</a></li>
            <li data-filter-camera-type="Bravo"><a data-toggle="tab" href="#">JavaScript</a></li>
     </ul>
</li></ul>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="/twitter-bootstrap/twitter-bootstrap-v2/docs/assets/js/jquery.js"></script>
	<script type="text/javascript" src="/twitter-bootstrap/twitter-bootstrap-v2/docs/assets/js/bootstrap-dropdown.js"></script>
   </body>
</html>

View the example online

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