Spinners

Bootstrap 5 Spinner component

Bootstrap Spinners are visual indicators that the app is loading. Use it while loading content or performing another process that the user needs to wait on.

Indicate the loading state of a component or page with MDB spinners, built entirely with HTML, CSS, and no JavaScript.

Basic example

Use the border spinners for a lightweight loading indicator.

          <div class="spinner-border" role="status">
            <span class="visually-hidden">Loading...</span>
          </div>
        

MDB “spinners” can be used to show the loading state in your projects. They’re built only with HTML and CSS, meaning you don’t need any JavaScript to create them. You will, however, need some custom JavaScript to toggle their visibility. Their appearance, alignment, and sizing can be easily customized with our amazing utility classes.

For accessibility purposes, each loader here includes role="status" and a nested <span class="visually-hidden">Loading...</span>.

Colors

The border spinner uses currentColor for its border-color, meaning you can customize the color with text color utilities. You can use any of our text color utilities on the standard spinner.

          <div class="spinner-border text-primary" role="status">
            <span class="visually-hidden">Loading...</span>
          </div>
          <div class="spinner-border text-secondary" role="status">
            <span class="visually-hidden">Loading...</span>
          </div>
          <div class="spinner-border text-success" role="status">
            <span class="visually-hidden">Loading...</span>
          </div>
          <div class="spinner-border text-danger" role="status">
            <span class="visually-hidden">Loading...</span>
          </div>
          <div class="spinner-border text-warning" role="status">
            <span class="visually-hidden">Loading...</span>
          </div>
          <div class="spinner-border text-info" role="status">
            <span class="visually-hidden">Loading...</span>
          </div>
          <div class="spinner-border text-light" role="status">
            <span class="visually-hidden">Loading...</span>
          </div>
          <div class="spinner-border text-dark" role="status">
            <span class="visually-hidden">Loading...</span>
          </div>
        

Why not use border-color utilities?:
Each border spinner specifies a transparent border for at least one side, so .border-{color} utilities would override that.

Growing spinner

If you don’t fancy a border spinner, switch to the grow spinner. While it doesn’t technically spin, it does repeatedly grow!

          <div class="spinner-grow" role="status">
            <span class="visually-hidden">Loading...</span>
          </div>
        

Once again, this spinner is built with currentColor, so you can easily change its appearance with text color utilities. Here it is in blue, along with the supported variants.

          <div class="spinner-grow text-primary" role="status">
            <span class="visually-hidden">Loading...</span>
          </div>
          <div class="spinner-grow text-secondary" role="status">
            <span class="visually-hidden">Loading...</span>
          </div>
          <div class="spinner-grow text-success" role="status">
            <span class="visually-hidden">Loading...</span>
          </div>
          <div class="spinner-grow text-danger" role="status">
            <span class="visually-hidden">Loading...</span>
          </div>
          <div class="spinner-grow text-warning" role="status">
            <span class="visually-hidden">Loading...</span>
          </div>
          <div class="spinner-grow text-info" role="status">
            <span class="visually-hidden">Loading...</span>
          </div>
          <div class="spinner-grow text-light" role="status">
            <span class="visually-hidden">Loading...</span>
          </div>
          <div class="spinner-grow text-dark" role="status">
            <span class="visually-hidden">Loading...</span>
          </div>
        

Alignment

Spinners in Bootstrap are built with rems, currentColor, and display: inline-flex. This means they can easily be resized, recolored, and quickly aligned.

            <div class="spinner-border m-5" role="status">
              <span class="visually-hidden">Loading...</span>
            </div>
          

            <div class="d-flex justify-content-center">
              <div class="spinner-border" role="status">
                <span class="visually-hidden">Loading...</span>
              </div>
            </div>
          

            <div class="d-flex align-items-center">
              <strong>Loading...</strong>
              <div class="spinner-border ms-auto" role="status" aria-hidden="true"></div>
            </div>
          

            <div class="clearfix">
              <div class="spinner-border float-end" role="status">
                <span class="visually-hidden">Loading...</span>
              </div>
            </div>
          

            <div class="text-center">
              <div class="spinner-border" role="status">
                <span class="visually-hidden">Loading...</span>
              </div>
            </div>
          

Size

Add .spinner-border-sm and .spinner-grow-sm to make a smaller spinner that can quickly be used within other components.

          <div class="spinner-border spinner-border-sm" role="status">
            <span class="visually-hidden">Loading...</span>
          </div>
          <div class="spinner-grow spinner-grow-sm" role="status">
            <span class="visually-hidden">Loading...</span>
          </div>
        

Or, use custom CSS or inline styles to change the dimensions as needed.

          <div class="spinner-border" style="width: 3rem; height: 3rem;" role="status">
            <span class="visually-hidden">Loading...</span>
          </div>
          <div class="spinner-grow" style="width: 3rem; height: 3rem;" role="status">
            <span class="visually-hidden">Loading...</span>
          </div>
        

Buttons

Use spinners within buttons to indicate an action is currently processing or taking place. You may also swap the text out of the spinner element and utilize button text as needed.

            <button class="btn btn-primary" type="button" disabled>
              <span
                class="spinner-border spinner-border-sm"
                role="status"
                aria-hidden="true"
              ></span>
              <span class="visually-hidden">Loading...</span>
            </button>
            <button class="btn btn-primary" type="button" disabled>
              <span
                class="spinner-border spinner-border-sm"
                role="status"
                aria-hidden="true"
              ></span>
              Loading...
            </button>
          

            <button class="btn btn-primary" type="button" disabled>
              <span class="spinner-grow spinner-grow-sm" role="status" aria-hidden="true"></span>
              <span class="visually-hidden">Loading...</span>
            </button>
            <button class="btn btn-primary" type="button" disabled>
              <span class="spinner-grow spinner-grow-sm" role="status" aria-hidden="true"></span>
              Loading...
            </button>
          

If you want to support our friends from Tailwind Elements you can also check out the Tailwind spinners documentation.