django-bootstrap-icons

A quick way to add Bootstrap Icons with Django template tags.

Embed bootstrap svg icons in your django templates with the possibility for styling and sizing.

Installing

django-bootstrap-icons can be found on pypi. Run pip install django-bootstrap-icons to install the package on your machine or in your virtual environment.

Getting Started

Using django-bootstrap-icons is easy. First, add the django_bootstrap_icons Django app in your settings file.

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    'django_bootstrap_icons'
]

Also, load the tag library in your template file:

{% load bootstrap_icons %}

Then, add an icon with the following tag. Give the icon's name as the first parameter, and that's all that's required:

{% bs_icon 'alarm' %}

Note

To prevent performance issues you should enable the icon cache!

Icon sizes

You can size the icons by setting the size parameter:

{% bs_icon 'alarm' size='1.5em' %}

Icon styling

Set the color of an icon by specifying the color parameter:

{% bs_icon 'alarm' color='red' %}

For further styling, you can add extra css classes:

{% bs_icon 'alarm' extra_classes="your-classname1 your-classname2" %}

Vertical alignment

By default, all sgv bootstrap icons are vertical aligned to the middle. Sometimes this is not appropriate, especially when rendering beside text. To align with text django-bootstrap-icons provides some css classes to set the desired vertical alignment.

Include the css file into your template

<link rel="stylesheet" href="{% static 'bootstrap_icons/css/bootstrap_icons.css' %}">

and add the class to the extra_classes parameter

{% bs_icon 'alarm' extra_classes="bi-valign-bottom" %}

The following classes are available:

.bi-valign-default /* This is a compromise also provided by bootstrap
                     for the icon font. The value is vertical-align: -.125em; 
                     (see https://github.com/twbs/icons/issues/601 for details) */
.bi-valign-middle /* this is the default from bootstrap for svg */
.bi-valign-bottom
.bi-valign-text-top
.bi-valign-text-bottom

If you have included the django-bootstrap-icons css, the default alignment will be to the values from ".bi-valign-default", so no need to add a class explicitly.

Custom icons

There's a template tag for your custom icons. Store the custom icons in some static directory. SET the BS_ICONS_CUSTOM_PATH setting to point to that static directory.

{% custom_icon 'your-custom-svg-name' %}

The custom template accepts the same parameter as the bootstrap icon template.

In fact you could download the bootstrap icons from bootstrap, store them in your static files and use them with the custom_icon template tag. This would avoid the use of CDN completely.

Material Design Icons

django-bootstrap-icons works fine with Material Design Icons. There is a template tag for MDI:

{% md_icon 'alarm' %}

Material Design Icons get some additional css classes mdi and mdi- to style them globally.

To use Material Design Icons side-by-side with bootstrap icons django-bootstrap-icons makes some adjustments in rendering the icons:

• The base size of Material Design Icons is larger than the size of bootstrap icons. For the default size (no size attribute given), django-bootstrap icons are resized. If you want to have the same size as Bootstrap Icons, set them to a size factor of 1.25. If Bootstrap Icon is of size 2em, set Material Icon to 2.5em. (Although the base size in mdi svgs is 24 the real size of the icon is 20 because of some empty space, that surrounds the icons).

• Because of that empty white space of the MDI (sort of some internal "padding" in svg) you need to include the django-bootstrap-icons css file to make some adjustments to the alignment.

<link rel="stylesheet" href="{% static 'bootstrap_icons/css/bootstrap_icons.css' %}">

Configuration

You can specify the source from which the icons are loaded:

BS_ICONS_BASE_URL = 'https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/[email protected]/'

BS_ICONS_BASE_URL defaults to the latest boostrap-icons CDN that was available when releasing this package. Change the URL to use an older or newer one.

You can also load icons from a local path. This will disable downloading icons from BS_ICONS_BASE_URL:

BS_ICONS_BASE_PATH = 'node_modules/bootstrap-icons/'

To add custom icons to your app you need to set the path where these can be found. The default setting is custom-icons, so you would add your icons to /your-app/static/custom-icons/.

BS_ICONS_CUSTOM_PATH = 'custom-icons'

Configure Material Design Icons

Material Desing Icons are loaded from the default URL:

MD_ICONS_BASE_URL = 'https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@mdi/[email protected]/'

You can change it to your desired location by overriding this setting.

You can also load icons from a local path. This will disable downloading icons from MD_ICONS_BASE_URL:

MD_ICONS_BASE_PATH = 'node_modules/@mdi/svg'

Configure icon cache

To avoid fetching icons multiple times, configure the icon cache directory:

BS_ICONS_CACHE = os.path.join(STATIC_ROOT, 'icon_cache')

This will ensure that icons will be loaded only once with their individual svg properties and stored to a local file. On each subsequent use the icon will be simply loaded from file.

Configure icon not found return

In case icons are not found you can configure, what to display:

BS_ICONS_NOT_FOUND = f"Icon `{icon_path}` does not exist"

This shows the error message if you for example misspelled an icon name.

If you're running your app offline you may want to display some value that has the same size as the icon:

BS_ICONS_NOT_FOUND = '<?xml version="1.0" ?>\
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="16" height="16" fill="red" class="bi bi-x-circle" viewBox="0 0 16 16">\
	<path d="M8 15A7 7 0 1 1 8 1a7 7 0 0 1 0 14zm0 1A8 8 0 1 0 8 0a8 8 0 0 0 0 16z"/>\
	<path d="M4.646 4.646a.5.5 0 0 1 .708 0L8 7.293l2.646-2.647a.5.5 0 0 1 .708.708L8.707 8l2.647 2.646a.5.5 0 0 1-.708.708L8 8.707l-2.646 2.647a.5.5 0 0 1-.708-.708L7.293 8 4.646 5.354a.5.5 0 0 1 0-.708z"/>\
</svg>'

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details

Acknowledgments

• Thanks to Bootstrap Icons!
• Thanks to Material Design Icons!

Releases

• see CHANGELOG.md

Run the sample app

git clone https://github.com/christianwgd/django-bootstrap-icons.git
cd django-bootstrap-icons
<create a virtual environment with your preferred tooling (virtualenv/venv/pipenv)
pip install -U -r requirements.txt
python manage.py migrate
python manage.py runserver

Output of the example app:

Run the tests

Setup the sample app (see above)

python manage.py test