How to remove the arrow in dropdown in Bootstrap 4?

Question

I am using Bootstrap 4. I tried to remove the arrow in dropdown.

The answers I found for Bootstrap 3 do not work any more.

The jsfiddle is here.

Answer 1

If you are interested in replacing the arrow with another Icon (such as, FontAwesome) you would just need to remove the border on the pseudo element of .dropdown-toggle

.dropdown-toggle::after { border: none; }

Answer 2

I was using the accepted answer for quite a while in my project but just now stumbled across a variable used by bootstrap:

$enable-caret: true !default;

If you set this to false then the caret will be removed without having to do any custom code.

My project was Ruby/Rails so I was using the bootstrap-rubygem. I changed the variable by importing a custom-variables.scss with the above variable set to false in my application.scss BEFORE the bootstrap.scss file/files.

Answer 3

With css, you could just do that:

.dropdown-toggle::after {
    display:none;
}

Answer 4

remove the "dropdown-toggle" class

Answer 5

I don't recommend any of the existing answers because:

• .dropdown-toggle has more styling than just the caret. Removing the class from the element causes styling issues.

• Overriding .dropdown-toggle doesn't make sense. Just because you don't need a caret on some particular element, doesn't mean you won't need one later.

• ::after doesn't cover dropdown variants (some use ::before).

Use a custom .caret-off in the same element as your .dropdown-toggle element:

.caret-off::before {
    display: none;
}
.caret-off::after {
    display: none;
}

Answer 6

This works on bootsrap4 and ng-bootstrap.

.dropdown-toggle:after {
    display: none;
}