Introduction

An overview of Bootstrap-Nice-Select, how to download and use it, basic templates, and more.

 

Quickstart

Looking to quickly add Bootstrap-Nice-Select to your Bootstrap 5 project? Use CDN, provided for free by the folks at UNPKG, using a package manager or need to download the source files? Head to the downloads page.

 

CSS

Copy-paste the stylesheet <link> into your <head> before all other stylesheets to load the CSS. The CSS needs to be loaded after Bootstrap.css, because the components will use Bootstrap variables.

<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://unpkg.com/bootstrap-nice-select@1.4.4/dist/css/bootstrap-nice-select.min.css">

 

JS

Place the following script/s near the end of your pages, right before the closing </body> tag, to enable them. If using Bootstrap 4, jQuery must come first, then Bootstrap.js, and then our JavaScript files.

<script src="https://unpkg.com/bootstrap-nice-select@1.4.4/dist/js/bootstrap-nice-select.min.js"></script>

 

HTML5 doctype

Bootstrap requires the use of the HTML5 doctype. Without it, you’ll see some funky and incomplete styling.

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
  ...
</html>

 

Template

Be sure to have your pages set up with the latest design and development standards. That means using an HTML5 doctype and a viewport meta tag for proper responsive behaviors. Get started by including Bootstrap’s production-ready CSS and JavaScript via CDN without the need for any build steps.

For the Bootstrap-Nice-Select component, we use Font Awesome 6 as the default icons, so we need to import the icons link too. If you want to change it, look in the docs and set a different default icon set or use your own icons.

Put it all together, your pages should look like the following:

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
  <head>
    <!-- Required meta tags -->
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no">
    <title>Hello, Bootstrap-Nice-Select!</title>

    <link href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/bootstrap@5.3.0-alpha3/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet" integrity="sha384-KK94CHFLLe+nY2dmCWGMq91rCGa5gtU4mk92HdvYe+M/SXH301p5ILy+dN9+nJOZ" crossorigin="anonymous">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/6.4.0/css/all.min.css" />
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://unpkg.com/bootstrap-nice-select@1.4.4/dist/css/bootstrap-nice-select.min.css">
  </head>
  <body>
    <div>
    ...
    </div>

    <script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/bootstrap@5.3.0-alpha3/dist/js/bootstrap.bundle.min.js"
    integrity="sha384-ENjdO4Dr2bkBIFxQpeoTz1HIcje39Wm4jDKdf19U8gI4ddQ3GYNS7NTKfAdVQSZe"
    crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
    <script src="https://unpkg.com/bootstrap-nice-select@1.4.4/dist/js/bootstrap-nice-select.min.js"></script>
  </body>
</html>