Available text color classes in Bootstrap

Question

I'm developing a sign up page, by putting some text as the title at the navigation bar. I want to give those texts different colors. For this purpose I'm using a separate CSS file, but I want to do this using bootstrap's CSS file.

Can anybody list the available color classes in bootstrap?

Answer 1

The bootstrap 3 documentation lists this under helper classes: Muted, Primary, Success, Info, Warning, Danger.

The bootstrap 4 documentation lists this under utilities -> color, and has more options: primary, secondary, success, danger, warning, info, light, dark, muted, white.

To access them one uses the class text-[class-name]

So, if I want the primary text color for example I would do something like this:

<p class="text-primary">This text is the primary color.</p>

This is not a huge number of choices, but it's some.

Answer 2

The text at the navigation bar is normally colored by using one of the two following css classes in the bootstrap.css file.

Firstly, in case of using a default navigation bar (the gray one), the .navbar-default class will be used and the text is colored as dark gray.

.navbar-default .navbar-text {
  color: #777;
}

The other is in case of using an inverse navigation bar (the black one), the text is colored as gray60.

.navbar-inverse .navbar-text {
  color: #999;
}

So, you can change its color as you wish. However, I would recommend you to use a separate css file to change it.

NOTE: you could also use the customizer provided by Twitter Bootstrap, in the Navbar section.

Answer 3

You can use text classes:

.text-primary
.text-secondary
.text-success
.text-danger
.text-warning
.text-info
.text-light
.text-dark
.text-muted
.text-white

use text classes in any tag where needed.

<p class="text-primary">.text-primary</p>
<p class="text-secondary">.text-secondary</p>
<p class="text-success">.text-success</p>
<p class="text-danger">.text-danger</p>
<p class="text-warning">.text-warning</p>
<p class="text-info">.text-info</p>
<p class="text-light bg-dark">.text-light</p>
<p class="text-dark">.text-dark</p>
<p class="text-muted">.text-muted</p>
<p class="text-white bg-dark">.text-white</p>

You can add your own classes or modify above classes as your requirement.

Answer 4

There are few more classess in Bootstrap 4 (added in recent versions) not mentioned in other answers.

.text-black-50 and .text-white-50 are 50% transparent.

.text-body {
  color: #212529 !important;
}

.text-black-50 {
  color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5) !important;
}

.text-white-50 {
  color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.5) !important;
}

/*DEMO*/
p{padding:.5rem}

<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.3.1/css/bootstrap.min.css">

<p class="text-body">.text-body</p>
<p class="text-black-50">.text-black-50</p>
<p class="text-white-50 bg-dark">.text-white-50</p>