Utilities

Text

Documentation and examples for common text utilities to control alignment, wrapping, weight, and more.

Text alignment#

Easily realign text to components with text alignment classes. For start, end, and center alignment, responsive classes are available that use the same viewport width breakpoints as the grid system (sm, md and lg).

Start aligned text on all viewport sizes.

Center aligned text on all viewport sizes.

End aligned text on all viewport sizes.

End aligned text on viewports sized SM (small) or wider.

End aligned text on viewports sized MD (medium) or wider.

End aligned text on viewports sized LG (large) or wider.

<p class="text-start">Start aligned text on all viewport sizes.</p>
<p class="text-center">Center aligned text on all viewport sizes.</p>
<p class="text-end">End aligned text on all viewport sizes.</p>

<p class="text-sm-end">End aligned text on viewports sized SM (small) or wider.</p>
<p class="text-md-end">End aligned text on viewports sized MD (medium) or wider.</p>
<p class="text-lg-end">End aligned text on viewports sized LG (large) or wider.</p>

Note that we don't provide utility classes for justified text. While, aesthetically, justified text might look more appealing, it does make word-spacing more random and therefore harder to read.

Text wrapping and overflow#

Wrap text with a .text-wrap class.

This text should wrap.

<div class="badge text-bg-primary text-wrap" style="width: 6rem;">
  This text should wrap.
</div>

Prevent text from wrapping with a .text-nowrap class.

This text should overflow the parent.

<div class="text-nowrap bg-body-secondary border" style="width: 8rem;">
  This text should overflow the parent.
</div>

To cut off overflowing text with an ellipsis, see .text-truncate.

Word break#

Prevent long strings of text from breaking your components' layout by using .text-break to set overflow-wrap: break-word and word-break: break-word. The deprecated word-break: break-word avoids issues with flex containers.

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

<p class="text-break">mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm</p>

Text transform#

Transform text in components with the text capitalization classes: text-lowercase, text-uppercase or text-capitalize.

Lowercased text.

Uppercased text.

CapiTaliZed text.

<p class="text-lowercase">Lowercased text.</p>
<p class="text-uppercase">Uppercased text.</p>
<p class="text-capitalize">CapiTaliZed text.</p>

Note how .text-capitalize only changes the first letter of each word, leaving the case of any other letters unaffected.

Font size#

Quickly change the font-size of text. While the heading classes (e.g., .h1–.h6) apply font-size, font-weight, and line-height, these utilities only apply font-size. As the number increases, their size decreases. felt-css is made for apps, so its scale is more compact than Bootstrap's: from 2rem (.fs-1) down to .875rem (.fs-6).

.fs-1 text

.fs-2 text

.fs-3 text

.fs-4 text

.fs-5 text

.fs-6 text

<p class="fs-1">.fs-1 text</p>
<p class="fs-2">.fs-2 text</p>
<p class="fs-3">.fs-3 text</p>
<p class="fs-4">.fs-4 text</p>
<p class="fs-5">.fs-5 text</p>
<p class="fs-6">.fs-6 text</p>

Font weight and italics#

Quickly change the font-weight or font-style of text with these utilities. font-style utilities are abbreviated as .fst-* and font-weight utilities are abbreviated as .fw-*.

Bold text.

Bolder weight text (relative to the parent element).

Semibold weight text.

Medium weight text.

Normal weight text.

Light weight text.

Lighter weight text (relative to the parent element).

Italic text.

Text with normal font style

<p class="fw-bold">Bold text.</p>
<p class="fw-bolder">Bolder weight text (relative to the parent element).</p>
<p class="fw-semibold">Semibold weight text.</p>
<p class="fw-medium">Medium weight text.</p>
<p class="fw-normal">Normal weight text.</p>
<p class="fw-light">Light weight text.</p>
<p class="fw-lighter">Lighter weight text (relative to the parent element).</p>
<p class="fst-italic">Italic text.</p>
<p class="fst-normal">Text with normal font style</p>

Line height#

Change the line height with .lh-* utilities: .lh-1 (1), .lh-sm (1.25), .lh-base (1.5) and .lh-lg (2).

This is a long paragraph written to show how the line-height of an element is affected by our utilities. Classes are applied to the element itself or sometimes the parent element. These classes can be customized as needed.

<p class="lh-1">This is a long paragraph written to show how the line-height of an element is affected by our utilities. Classes are applied to the element itself or sometimes the parent element. These classes can be customized as needed.</p>
<p class="lh-sm">This is a long paragraph written to show how the line-height of an element is affected by our utilities. Classes are applied to the element itself or sometimes the parent element. These classes can be customized as needed.</p>
<p class="lh-base">This is a long paragraph written to show how the line-height of an element is affected by our utilities. Classes are applied to the element itself or sometimes the parent element. These classes can be customized as needed.</p>
<p class="lh-lg">This is a long paragraph written to show how the line-height of an element is affected by our utilities. Classes are applied to the element itself or sometimes the parent element. These classes can be customized as needed.</p>

Monospace#

Change a selection to the monospace font stack with .font-monospace.

This is in monospace

<p class="font-monospace">This is in monospace</p>

Tabular numbers#

A felt-css extra: .tabular-nums gives every digit the same width, so amounts and times line up in lists and tables.

111.11 €

888.88 €

<p class="tabular-nums mb-0">111.11 €</p>
<p class="tabular-nums">888.88 €</p>

Reset color#

Reset a text or link's color with .text-reset, so that it inherits the color from its parent.

Secondary body text with a reset link.

<p class="text-body-secondary">
  Secondary body text with a <a href="#" class="text-reset">reset link</a>.
</p>

Text decoration#

Decorate text in components with text decoration classes.

This text has a line underneath it.

This text has a line going through it.

This link has its text decoration removed

<p class="text-decoration-underline">This text has a line underneath it.</p>
<p class="text-decoration-line-through">This text has a line going through it.</p>
<a href="#" class="text-decoration-none">This link has its text decoration removed</a>