How to remove the arrow in dropdown in Bootstrap 4?

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.

<div> <button type="button" aria-haspopup="true" aria-expanded="false"> Dropdown </button> <div aria-labelledby="dropdownMenu1"> <a href="#">Action</a> <a href="#">Another action</a> </div> </div> 

13 Answers

Simply remove "dropdown-toggle" class from the element. The dropdown will still work if you have the data-toggle attribute as follows

<button type="button"> Dropdown Without Arrow </button> 

overriding .dropdown-toggle class styles affects all dropdowns and you may want to keep the arrow in other buttons, that's why this looks to me the simplest solution.

Edit: Keep dropdown class if you want to keep border styling

<button type="button"> Dropdown Without Arrow </button> 

With css, you could just do that:

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

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; } 

Some have said they needed to add !important but YMMV.

remove the dropdown-toggle class

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; } 

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.

If you remove fit the dropdown-toggle class as below, all the dropdown buttons on your system will no longer have the caret.

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

But maybe that's not what you want, so to remove just the specific button, we're going to insert a class called: remoecaret, and we'll fit the class: dropdown-toggle as follows:

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

and our html looks something like:

<div> <button> <i aria-hidden="true"></i> </button> <ul> <li><a href="#"><a href="#"><i aria-hidden="true"></i>&nbsp;Edit</a></li> </ul> </div> 

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

You can also try this

Boostrap generates this using the CSS border:

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

If you wanna exactly only in this bootstrap button class, make:

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

have you tried tag="a" within the class? it hides the arrow without further css.

Add no-arrow to drop-down toggle class declaration

This works on bootsrap4 and ng-bootstrap.

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