Bootstrap: Aligning two buttons on the same row

Question

Basically what I'm attempting to do it to get two buttons on the opposite side of the website but on the same row. Here's what it looks like:

And here's the code for what I have:

             <div class="panel-footer"><!-- panel-footer -->

              <div class="previous">
                  <button type="button" class="btn btn-default btn-lg">
                      <span class="glyphicon glyphicon-chevron-left"></span>
                  </button>
              </div>

              <div class="next">
                  <button type="button" class="btn btn-default btn-lg">
                      <span class="glyphicon glyphicon-chevron-right"></span>
                  </button>
              </div>

          </div><!-- end panel-footer -->

And here's the CSS for the classes 'previous' and 'next'.

.previous {
text-align: left;
}

.next {
text-align: right;
}

Thanks. I'm using bootstrap if that helps.

Answer 1

Wrap them in two separate columns like this:

<div class="panel-footer row"><!-- panel-footer -->
    <div class="col-xs-6 text-left">
        <div class="previous">
          <button type="button" class="btn btn-default btn-lg">
              <span class="glyphicon glyphicon-chevron-left"></span>
          </button>
        </div>
    </div>
    <div class="col-xs-6 text-right">   
        <div class="next">
          <button type="button" class="btn btn-default btn-lg">
              <span class="glyphicon glyphicon-chevron-right"></span>
          </button>
        </div>
    </div>
</div><!-- end panel-footer -->

By the way, you can use the built in helper classes text-left / text-right like I've done on the column divs so you don't need to add the extra css. In that case you can remove the extra divs you've added.

Answer 2

I thought Bootstrap automatically does this floating for you if you wrap it in the div .row since it's based on a grid?

<div class="row">
<div class="pull-left">
    <button type="button" class="btn btn-default btn-lg">
        <span class="glyphicon glyphicon-chevron-left"></span>
     </button>
 </div>

 <div class="pull-right">
    <button type="button" class="btn btn-default btn-lg">
        <span class="glyphicon glyphicon-chevron-right"></span>
    </button>
 </div>
 </div>