Offcanvas
Build hidden sidebars into your project for navigation, shopping carts, and more with a few classes and our JavaScript plugin.
How it works
Offcanvas is a sidebar component that can be toggled via JavaScript to appear from the left, right,
top, or bottom edge of the viewport. Buttons or anchors are used as triggers that are attached to
specific elements you toggle, and data attributes are used to invoke our JavaScript.
- Similarly, some source Sass variables for offcanvas’s styles and dimensions are inherited from the modal’s variables. See the Sass docs for the source variables and mixins.
Heads up! Given how CSS handles animations, you cannot use margin or
translate on an .offcanvas element. Instead, use the class as an independent
wrapping element.
The animation effect of this component is dependent on the prefers-reduced-motion media
query. See the
reduced motion section of our accessibility documentation.
Examples
Offcanvas components
Offcanvas includes support for a header with a close button and an optional body class for some
initial padding. We suggest that you include offcanvas headers with dismiss actions
whenever possible, or provide an explicit dismiss action. Below is an offcanvas example that can also
be shown by default (using .show on .offcanvas).
Live demo
Use the buttons below to show and hide an offcanvas element via JavaScript that toggles the
.show class on an element with the .offcanvas class.
.offcanvashides content (default).offcanvas.showshows content
You can use a link with the href attribute, or a button with the
data-bs-target attribute. In both cases, the
data-bs-toggle="offcanvas" is required.
Body scrolling
Scrolling the <body> element is disabled when an offcanvas and its backdrop are
visible. Use the data-bs-scroll attribute to enable <body> scrolling.
Body scrolling and backdrop
You can also enable <body> scrolling with a visible backdrop.
Static backdrop
When backdrop is set to static, the offcanvas will not close when clicking outside of it.
Dark offcanvas
Change the appearance of offcanvases with utilities to better match them to different contexts like
dark navbars. Here we add .text-bg-dark to the .offcanvas and
.btn-close-white to .btn-close for proper styling with a dark offcanvas. If
you have dropdowns within, consider also adding .dropdown-menu-dark to
.dropdown-menu.
Responsive
Responsive offcanvas classes hide content outside the viewport from a specified breakpoint and down.
Above that breakpoint, the contents within will behave as usual. For example,
.offcanvas-lg hides content in an offcanvas below the lg breakpoint, but
shows the content above the lg breakpoint. Responsive offcanvas classes are available for
each breakpoint.
.offcanvas.offcanvas-sm.offcanvas-md.offcanvas-lg.offcanvas-xl.offcanvas-xxl
To make a responsive offcanvas, replace the .offcanvas base class with a responsive
variant and ensure your close button has an explicit data-bs-target.
Placement
There’s no default placement for offcanvas components, so you must add one of the modifier classes below.
.offcanvas-startplaces offcanvas on the left of the viewport (shown above).offcanvas-endplaces offcanvas on the right of the viewport.offcanvas-topplaces offcanvas on the top of the viewport.offcanvas-bottomplaces offcanvas on the bottom of the viewport
Try the top, right, and bottom examples out below.
Accessibility
Since the offcanvas panel is conceptually a modal dialog, be sure to add
aria-labelledby="..."—referencing the offcanvas title—to
.offcanvas. Note that you don’t need to add role="dialog" since we
already add it via JavaScript.
Usage
The offcanvas plugin utilizes a few classes and attributes to handle the heavy lifting:
.offcanvashides the content.offcanvas.showshows the content.offcanvas-starthides the offcanvas on the left.offcanvas-endhides the offcanvas on the right.offcanvas-tophides the offcanvas on the top.offcanvas-bottomhides the offcanvas on the bottom
Add a dismiss button with the data-bs-dismiss="offcanvas" attribute, which
triggers the JavaScript functionality. Be sure to use the <button> element with it
for proper behavior across all devices.
Via data attributes
Toggle
Add data-bs-toggle="offcanvas" and a data-bs-target or
href to the element to automatically assign control of one offcanvas element. The
data-bs-target attribute accepts a CSS selector to apply the offcanvas to. Be sure to add
the class offcanvas to the offcanvas element. If you’d like it to default open, add the
additional class show.
Dismiss
Dismissal can be achieved with the data-bs-dismiss attribute on a button
within the offcanvas as demonstrated below:
<button type="button" class="btn-close" data-bs-dismiss="offcanvas" aria-label="Close"></button>
or on a button outside the offcanvas using the additional
data-bs-target as demonstrated below:
<button
type="button"
class="btn-close"
data-bs-dismiss="offcanvas"
data-bs-target="#my-offcanvas"
aria-label="Close"
></button>
While both ways to dismiss an offcanvas are supported, keep in mind that dismissing from outside an offcanvas does not match the ARIA Authoring Practices Guide dialog (modal) pattern. Do this at your own risk.
Via JavaScript
Enable manually with:
const offcanvasElementList = document.querySelectorAll('.offcanvas');
const offcanvasList = [...offcanvasElementList].map((offcanvasEl) => new bootstrap.Offcanvas(offcanvasEl));
Options
As options can be passed via data attributes or JavaScript, you can append an option name to
data-bs-, as in data-bs-animation="{value}". Make sure to change
the case type of the option name from “camelCase” to “kebab-case” when passing the
options via data attributes. For example, use
data-bs-custom-class="beautifier" instead of
data-bs-customClass="beautifier".
As of Bootstrap 5.2.0, all components support an experimental reserved data attribute
data-bs-config that can house simple component configuration as a JSON string. When an
element has data-bs-config='{"delay":0, "title":123}' and
data-bs-title="456" attributes, the final title value will be
456 and the separate data attributes will override values given on
data-bs-config. In addition, existing data attributes are able to house JSON values like
data-bs-delay='{"show":0,"hide":150}'.
The final configuration object is the merged result of data-bs-config,
data-bs-, and js object where the latest given key-value overrides the
others.
| Name | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
backdrop |
boolean or the string static |
true |
Apply a backdrop on body while offcanvas is open. Alternatively, specify
static for a backdrop which doesn’t close the offcanvas when clicked.
|
keyboard |
boolean | true |
Closes the offcanvas when escape key is pressed. |
scroll |
boolean | false |
Allow body scrolling while offcanvas is open. |
Methods
All API methods are asynchronous and start a transition. They return to the caller as soon as the transition is started, but before it ends. In addition, a method call on a transitioning component will be ignored. Learn more in our JavaScript docs.
Activates your content as an offcanvas element. Accepts an optional options object.
You can create an offcanvas instance with the constructor, for example:
const bsOffcanvas = new bootstrap.Offcanvas('#myOffcanvas');
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
dispose |
Destroys an element’s offcanvas. |
getInstance |
Static method which allows you to get the offcanvas instance associated with a DOM element. |
getOrCreateInstance |
Static method which allows you to get the offcanvas instance associated with a DOM element, or create a new one in case it wasn’t initialized. |
hide |
Hides an offcanvas element.
Returns to the caller before the offcanvas element has actually been hidden
(i.e. before the hidden.bs.offcanvas event occurs).
|
show |
Shows an offcanvas element.
Returns to the caller before the offcanvas element has actually been shown
(i.e. before the shown.bs.offcanvas event occurs).
|
toggle |
Toggles an offcanvas element to shown or hidden.
Returns to the caller before the offcanvas element has actually been shown or
hidden
(i.e. before the shown.bs.offcanvas or hidden.bs.offcanvas event
occurs).
|
Events
Bootstrap’s offcanvas class exposes a few events for hooking into offcanvas functionality.
| Event type | Description |
|---|---|
hide.bs.offcanvas |
This event is fired immediately when the hide method has been called. |
hidden.bs.offcanvas |
This event is fired when an offcanvas element has been hidden from the user (will wait for CSS transitions to complete). |
hidePrevented.bs.offcanvas |
This event is fired when the offcanvas is shown, its backdrop is static and a
click outside of the offcanvas is performed. The event is also fired when the escape key is
pressed and the keyboard option is set to false.
|
show.bs.offcanvas |
This event fires immediately when the show instance method is called. |
shown.bs.offcanvas |
This event is fired when an offcanvas element has been made visible to the user (will wait for CSS transitions to complete). |
const myOffcanvas = document.getElementById('myOffcanvas');
myOffcanvas.addEventListener('hidden.bs.offcanvas', (event) => {
// do something...
});