Bootstrap/less/dropdowns.less

//
// Dropdown menus
// --------------------------------------------------

// The dropdown wrapper (div)
.dropdown {
  position: relative;
}

.dropdown-toggle {
  // Generate the caret automatically
  &:after {
    display: inline-block;
    width: 0;
    height: 0;
    content: "";
    margin-left: .25rem;
    vertical-align: middle;
    border-top:   @caret-width-base solid;
    border-right: @caret-width-base solid transparent;
    border-left:  @caret-width-base solid transparent;
  }

  // Prevent the focus on the dropdown toggle when closing dropdowns
  &:focus {
    outline: 0;
  }
}

// The dropdown menu (ul)
.dropdown-menu {
  position: absolute;
  top: 100%;
  left: 0;
  z-index: @zindex-dropdown;
  display: none; // none by default, but block on "open" of the menu
  float: left;
  min-width: 160px;
  padding: 5px 0;
  margin: 2px 0 0; // override default ul
  list-style: none;
  font-size: @font-size-base;
  text-align: left; // Ensures proper alignment if parent has it changed (e.g., modal footer)
  background-color: @dropdown-bg;
  border: 1px solid @dropdown-fallback-border; // IE8 fallback
  border: 1px solid @dropdown-border;
  .border-radius(@border-radius-base);
  box-shadow: 0 6px 12px rgba(0,0,0,.175);
  background-clip: padding-box;

  // Dividers (basically an hr) within the dropdown
  .divider {
    .nav-divider(@dropdown-divider-bg);
  }

  // Links within the dropdown menu
  > li > a {
    display: block;
    padding: 3px 20px;
    clear: both;
    font-weight: normal;
    line-height: @line-height-base;
    color: @dropdown-link-color;
    white-space: nowrap; // prevent links from randomly breaking onto new lines
  }
}

// Hover/Focus state
.dropdown-menu > li > a {
  &:hover,
  &:focus {
    text-decoration: none;
    color: @dropdown-link-hover-color;
    background-color: @dropdown-link-hover-bg;
  }
}

// Active state
.dropdown-menu > .active > a {
  &,
  &:hover,
  &:focus {
    color: @dropdown-link-active-color;
    text-decoration: none;
    outline: 0;
    background-color: @dropdown-link-active-bg;
  }
}

// Disabled state
//
// Gray out text and ensure the hover/focus state remains gray

.dropdown-menu > .disabled > a {
  &,
  &:hover,
  &:focus {
    color: @dropdown-link-disabled-color;
  }
}
// Nuke hover/focus effects
.dropdown-menu > .disabled > a {
  &:hover,
  &:focus {
    text-decoration: none;
    background-color: transparent;
    background-image: none; // Remove CSS gradient
    .reset-filter();
    cursor: not-allowed;
  }
}

// Open state for the dropdown
.open {
  // Show the menu
  > .dropdown-menu {
    display: block;
  }

  // Remove the outline when :focus is triggered
  > a {
    outline: 0;
  }
}

// Menu positioning
//
// Add extra class to `.dropdown-menu` to flip the alignment of the dropdown
// menu with the parent.
.dropdown-menu-right {
  left: auto; // Reset the default from `.dropdown-menu`
  right: 0;
}
// With v3, we enabled auto-flipping if you have a dropdown within a right
// aligned nav component. To enable the undoing of that, we provide an override
// to restore the default dropdown menu alignment.
//
// This is only for left-aligning a dropdown menu within a `.navbar-right` or
// `.pull-right` nav component.
.dropdown-menu-left {
  left: 0;
  right: auto;
}

// Dropdown section headers
.dropdown-header {
  display: block;
  padding: 3px 20px;
  font-size: @font-size-small;
  line-height: @line-height-base;
  color: @dropdown-header-color;
  white-space: nowrap; // as with > li > a
}

// Backdrop to catch body clicks on mobile, etc.
.dropdown-backdrop {
  position: fixed;
  left: 0;
  right: 0;
  bottom: 0;
  top: 0;
  z-index: (@zindex-dropdown - 10);
}

// Right aligned dropdowns
.pull-right > .dropdown-menu {
  right: 0;
  left: auto;
}

// Allow for dropdowns to go bottom up (aka, dropup-menu)
//
// Just add .dropup after the standard .dropdown class and you're set, bro.
// TODO: abstract this so that the navbar fixed styles are not placed here?

.dropup,
.navbar-fixed-bottom .dropdown {
  // Reverse the caret
  .caret {
    border-top: 0;
    border-bottom: @caret-width-base solid;
    content: "";
  }
  // Different positioning for bottom up menu
  .dropdown-menu {
    top: auto;
    bottom: 100%;
    margin-bottom: 1px;
  }
}


// Component alignment
//
// Reiterate per navbar.less and the modified component alignment there.

@media (min-width: @grid-float-breakpoint) {
  .navbar-right {
    .dropdown-menu {
      .dropdown-menu-right();
    }
    // Necessary for overrides of the default right aligned menu.
    // Will remove come v4 in all likelihood.
    .dropdown-menu-left {
      .dropdown-menu-left();
    }
  }
}