Bootstrap Elements
Posted on August 12, 2023 (Last modified on June 7, 2025) • 13 min read • 2,572 wordsUse shortcodes to add common Bootstrap elements with ease.

Hinode provides several shortcodes that wrap common Bootstrap components. Refer to the official documentation for more details.
Abbr
As an example, the following shortcode displays the full text of an abbreviation on hover.
{{< abbr key="CI/CD" >}}
Accordion
As an example, the following shortcode displays an accordion with three elements, of which the first element is expanded.
show
to the class
argument.{{< accordion >}}
{{< accordion-item title="Accordion Item #1" show="true" >}}
This is the first item's accordion body. It supports HTML content, if enabled in the goldmark
renderer. The item is shown by adding the value `show` to the `class` argument.
{{< /accordion-item >}}
{{< accordion-item title="Accordion Item #2" >}}
This is the second item's accordion body.
{{< /accordion-item >}}
{{< accordion-item title="Accordion Item #3" >}}
This is the third item's accordion body.
{{< /accordion-item >}}
{{< /accordion >}}
Alert
As an example, the following shortcode displays a simple alert.
{{< alert color="danger" dismissible="true" >}}
A simple danger alert—check it out!
{{< /alert >}}
Badge
Use the badge shortcode to display a badge for a heading.
Heading 1 New
Heading 2 New
Heading 3 New
Heading 4 New
Heading 5 New
Heading 6 New
Heading 1 {{< badge title="New" >}}
{.h1}
Heading 2 {{< badge title="New" >}}
{.h2}
Heading 3 {{< badge title="New" >}}
{.h3}
Heading 4 {{< badge title="New" >}}
{.h4}
Heading 5 {{< badge title="New" >}}
{.h5}
Heading 6 {{< badge title="New" >}}
{.h6}
Breadcrumb
As an example, the following shortcode displays a breadcrumb for the blog page.
{{< breadcrumb path="blog" >}}
Button
As an example, the following shortcode displays a tooltip for a dark button with a badge.
{{< button color="secondary" tooltip="Click to view your unread messages" href="#!" badge="99+" >}}
Inbox
{{< /button >}}
Button Group
As an example, the following shortcode displays a group of three buttons.
{{< button-group aria-label="Basic example" >}}
{{< button color="primary" href="#!" >}}Left{{< /button >}}
{{< button color="primary" href="#!" >}}Middle{{< /button >}}
{{< button color="primary" href="#!" >}}Right{{< /button >}}
{{< /button-group >}}
Card
As an example, the following shortcode displays a stacked card that links to the About page. It includes a custom header.
April 11, 2022 • 1 min read
About
{{< card path="about" padding="3" class="col-6 mx-auto" color="body-tertiary"
header-style="publication" footer-style="none" button=true />}}
Card Group
As an example, the following shortcode displays a card group of three elements.
{{< card-group padding="3" gutter="3" button=true link-type="link" cols=2 scroll=true >}}
{{< card title="Bootstrap framework" icon="fab bootstrap" >}}
Build fast, responsive sites with Bootstrap 5. Easily customize your site with the source
Sass files.
{{< /card >}}
{{< card title="Full text search" icon="fas magnifying-glass" >}}
Search your site with FlexSearch, a full-text search library with zero dependencies.
{{< /card >}}
{{< card title="Development tools" icon="fas code" >}}
Use Node Package Manager to automate the build process and to keep track of dependencies.
{{< /card >}}
{{< /card-group >}}
Carousel
As an example, the following shortcode displays a centered carousel with three slides, 16x9 aspect ratio, and a relative width of 67% on large screens.
{{< carousel ratio="16x9" class="col-sm-12 col-lg-8 mx-auto" >}}
{{< img src="img/coffee.jpg" caption="slide 1" >}}
{{< img src="img/phone.jpg" caption="slide 2" >}}
{{< img src="img/dunes.jpg" caption="slide 3" >}}
{{< /carousel >}}
Collapse
As an example, the following shortcode displays a button that, when clicked, triggers a panel to appear or disappear.
{{< button collapse-id="collapse-1" >}}
Trigger panel
{{< /button >}}
{{< collapse id="collapse-1" class="p-3 border rounded bg-primary-subtle" >}}
Some placeholder content for the collapse component. This panel is *hidden by default* but
revealed when the user activates the relevant trigger.
{{< /collapse >}}
Command Prompt
Use the command
shortcode to generate a block with a default bash command prompt.
export MY_VAR=123
{{< command >}}
export MY_VAR=123
{{< /command >}}
Specify user
and host
to add the user context to the prompt. In addition, use (out)
to specify an output line and use \
to denote a line continuation.
export MY_VAR=123
echo "hello"
hello
echo one \
two \
three
one two three
echo "goodbye"
goodbye
{{< command user="user" host="localhost" >}}
export MY_VAR=123
echo "hello"
(out)hello
echo one \
two \
three
(out)one two three
echo "goodbye"
(out)goodbye
{{< /command >}}
Docs
Use the docs
shortcode to display the content of a js
, scss
or toml
file:
[style]
primary = "#d43900"
secondary = "#6c757d"
success = "#198754"
info = "#0dcaf0"
warning = "#ffc107"
danger = "#dc3545"
light = "#f8f9fa"
dark = "#212529"
themeOpacity = "10"
darkModeShade = "20%"
darkModeTint = "40%"
themeFont = "Inter"
# themeFontPath = "https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Inter:wght@200;300;600&display=swap" # external path
themeFontPath = "/fonts" # local path
themeFontPreload = "/fonts/inter-v12-latin-regular.woff2"
# TODO: adjust purge settings
purge = false
Example
Use the example
shortcode to display a code example and to render a preview of the same input.
export MY_VAR=123
{{< command >}}
export MY_VAR=123
{{< /command >}}
File
Use the file
shortcode to print and highlight the full content of a given input file.
# toml-docs-start lang-main
[en]
languageName = "English"
contentDir = "content/en"
weight = 1
# toml-docs-end lang-main
# toml-docs-start lang-param
[en.params.head]
tagline = "A Hugo Theme"
[en.params.social]
title = "Follow me"
caption = "I work on everything coding and tweet developer memes"
[en.params.footer]
# license = "Licensed under Creative Commons (<a href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/' class='link-secondary' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer nofollow'>CC BY-NC-SA 4.0</a>)."
# toml-docs-end lang-param
[en.params.sections.blog]
reference = "More Posts"
[en.params.sections.projects]
reference = "More Projects"
[nl]
languageName = "Nederlands"
contentDir = "content/nl"
weight = 2
[nl.params.opengraph]
locale = "nl_NL"
[nl.params.head]
tagline = "Een Hugo Thema"
[nl.params.social]
title = "Volg mij"
caption = "Ik doe aan programmeren en tweet memes"
[nl.params.footer]
# license = "Gelicenseerd onder Creative Commons (<a href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/' class='link-secondary' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer nofollow'>CC BY-NC-SA 4.0</a>)."
[nl.params.sections.blog]
reference = "Meer artikelen"
[nl.params.sections.projects]
title = "Projecten"
reference = "Meer projecten"
[fr]
languageName = "Français"
contentDir = "content/fr"
weight = 2
[fr.params.opengraph]
locale = "fr_FR"
[fr.params.head]
tagline = "Un thème Hugo"
[fr.params.social]
title = "Suivez-moi"
caption = "Je code et je tweet des mèmes de développeurs."
[fr.params.footer]
# license = "Gelicenseerd onder Creative Commons (<a href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/' class='link-secondary' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer nofollow'>CC BY-NC-SA 4.0</a>)."
[fr.params.sections.blog]
reference = "Plus d'articles"
[fr.params.sections.projects]
title = "Projets"
reference = "Plus de projets"
{{< file file="./config/_default/languages.toml" id="file-collapse-1" >}}
Icon
As an example, the following shortcodes show a square check, a brand logo, a circle check, and a custom icon.
{{< fa square-check >}}
{{< fab linkedin >}}
{{< fas circle-check >}}
{{< icon custom activity >}}
Image
As an example, the following shortcode displays an image with rounded corners and a 4x3 aspect ratio in portrait mode.

{{< image src="img/flowers.jpg" ratio="4x3" caption="Figure caption" class="rounded col-md-6"
portrait=true wrapper="text-center" >}}
The same image, but then using Markdown syntax:


{class="rounded col-md-6" ratio="4x3" portrait=true wrapper="text-center"}
As an example, the following shortcode displays a regular vector image.
{{< image src="/img/logo_icon.svg" class="col-sm-6 col-lg-4" wrapper="text-center" >}}
As an example, the following shortcode displays a vector image with a symbol reference.
{{< image src="/img/logo_var.svg#logo" class="col-sm-6 col-lg-4" wrapper="text-center" >}}
Ins
As an example, the following shortcode displays underlined text.
This is an {{< ins >}}underlined text{{< /ins >}}.
Kbd
As an example, the following shortcodes shows a simple CTRL-C command.
{{< kbd "CTRL-C" >}}
Link
As an example, the following shortcodes render links in different formats.
- {{< link hinode >}}Named link with default settings{{< /link >}}
- {{< link href=hinode cue=false tab=false >}}Named link opening in current tab w/o icon{{< /link >}}
- {{< link href=hinode cue=true tab=true >}}Named link opening in new tab with icon{{< /link >}}
- {{< link hinode />}}
- {{< link href="https://developer.mozilla.org" >}}External link{{< /link >}}
- {{< link href="https://demo.gethinode.com/en/about/" >}}Surrogate external link{{< /link >}}
- {{< link "./projects/another-project" >}}Internal link with title{{< /link >}}
- {{< link href="projects/another-project" />}}
- {{< link href="/projects/another-project" />}}
- {{< link href="../projects/another-project" case=false />}}
- {{< link "about" />}}
- {{< link "/fr/a-propos/" />}}
- {{< link href="/fr/a-propos" force=true >}}About (French){{< /link >}}
- {{< link "#image" />}}
- {{< link "components/#map" />}}
Mark
Use the mark
shortcode to highlight text. The inner content is used as input.
Use the mark shortcode to {{< mark >}}highlight{{< /mark >}} specific text.
Nav
As an example, the following shortcode displays a tab group with vertically aligned pills.
{{< nav tab-type="pills" vertical="true" >}}
{{< nav-item title="Nav Item #1" show="true" >}}
This is the first item's nav body. It supports HTML content, if enabled in the goldmark
renderer. The item is shown by adding the value `show` to the `class` argument.
{{< /nav-item >}}
{{< nav-item title="Nav Item #2" >}}
This is the second item's nav body.
{{< /nav-item >}}
{{< nav-item title="Nav Item #3" >}}
This is the third item's nav body.
{{< /nav-item >}}
{{< /nav >}}
Navbar
As an example, the following shortcode displays a light navigation header.
{{< navbar id="navbar-sample" path="blog" color="primary" breakpoint="md" search="false" menus="sample" title="Brand" mode="false" >}}
Persona
As an example, the following shortcode displays a persona card with a primary color.

As a content creator you value your independence. You like to take control of your online and offline presence. You want to focus on growing your audience, without limitations.
Hinode gives you the tools to publish your blog in the way that you want. You have full ownership and control of your content. That is why content creators choose Hinode.

As a content creator you value your independence. You like to take control of your online and offline presence. You want to focus on growing your audience, without limitations.
Hinode gives you the tools to publish your blog in the way that you want. You have full ownership and control of your content. That is why content creators choose Hinode.
{{< persona thumbnail="/img/creator-1x1.jpg" title="Creators" color="primary" >}}
As a content creator you value your independence. You like to take control of your
online and offline presence. You want to focus on growing your audience, without
limitations.
Hinode gives you the tools to publish your blog in the way that you want. You have
full ownership and control of your content. That is why content creators choose
Hinode.
{{< /persona >}}
Release
As an example, the following shortcode displays a default release button.
Spinner
As an example, the following shortcode displays a centered spinner.
{{< spinner color="info" class="text-center" >}}
Loading...
{{< /spinner >}}
Sub
As an example, the following shortcode displays subscript text.
H{{< sub 2 >}}O is a liquid.
Sup
As an example, the following shortcode displays superscript text.
2{{< sup 10 >}} is 1024.
Table
As an example, the following shortcode displays a responsive table.
# | Heading | Heading | Heading | Heading | Heading | Heading | Heading | Heading | Heading |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1. | cell | cel | cel | cel | cel | cel | cel | cel | cel |
2. | cell | cel | cel | cel | cel | cel | cel | cel | cel |
3. | cell | cel | cel | cel | cel | cel | cel | cel | cel |
{{< table >}}
| # | Heading | Heading | Heading | Heading | Heading | Heading | Heading | Heading | Heading |
|----|---------|---------|---------|---------|---------|---------|---------|---------|---------|
| 1. | cell | cel | cel | cel | cel | cel | cel | cel | cel |
| 2. | cell | cel | cel | cel | cel | cel | cel | cel | cel |
| 3. | cell | cel | cel | cel | cel | cel | cel | cel | cel |
{{< /table >}}
Timeline
As an example, the following shortcode displays a timeline with the file data/timeline.en.yml
as data.
July 1, 2023
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit. Cupiditate ducimus officiis quod! Aperiam eveniet nam nostrum odit quasi ullam voluptatum.
November 30, 2022
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit. Cupiditate ducimus officiis quod! Aperiam eveniet nam nostrum odit quasi ullam voluptatum.
July 1, 2023
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit. Cupiditate ducimus officiis quod! Aperiam eveniet nam nostrum odit quasi ullam voluptatum.
November 30, 2022
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit. Cupiditate ducimus officiis quod! Aperiam eveniet nam nostrum odit quasi ullam voluptatum.
{{< timeline data="timeline" background="body-tertiary" >}}
Toast
As an example, the following shortcode displays a button that, when clicked, triggers the toast message.
markdown.
markdown.
{{< button toast-id="toast-example-1" >}}
Show toast 1
{{< /button >}}
{{< button toast-id="toast-example-2" >}}
Show toast 2
{{< /button >}}
{{< toast id="toast-example-1" title="First title" >}}
This is the first toast message. It supports `markdown.`
{{< /toast >}}
{{< toast id="toast-example-2" title="Second title" >}}
This is the second toast message. It supports `markdown.`
{{< /toast >}}
Tooltip
As an example, the following shortcode displays a tooltip for a colored hyperlink.
{{< tooltip color="primary" title="Tooltip caption" href="#!" >}}Tooltip{{< /tooltip >}}
demonstration
Video
As an example, the following shortcode displays an Elephants video hosted by Cloudinary.
{{< video provider="cloudinary" account="demo" media-id="elephants" autoplay=true >}}