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

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>
            <a href="#">here</a>
        </li>
        <li>
            <a href="#">new</a>
        </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;
}