Material Icon in Bootstrap Nav bar is not aligning properly

Question

Making use of bootstrap 4 and Material Icon in a Nav bar and icons are not aligned properly

You may see that in this fiddle https://jsfiddle.net/saamisolutions/7phge3ro/5/

<link href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/material-design-icons/3.0.1/iconfont/material-icons.min.css" rel="stylesheet"/>
<link href="https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.1.0/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet"/>
<script src="https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.1.0/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
<nav class="navbar navbar-expand-lg navbar-dark bg-dark">
        <div class="container">
            <div class="collapse navbar-collapse" id="navbarNav">
                <ul class="navbar-nav">
                    <li class="nav-item active">
                        <a class="nav-link" href="#">
                            <i class="material-icons">home</i>Home</a>
                    </li>
                    <li class="nav-item">
                        <a class="nav-link" href="#">
                            <i class="material-icons">build</i>Configuration</a>
                    </li>
                    <li class="nav-item">
                        <a class="nav-link" href="#">
                            <i class="material-icons">person</i>User Admin</a>
                    </li>
                    <li class="nav-item">
                        <a class="nav-link" href="#">
                            <i class="material-icons">more_horiz</i>More</a>
                    </li>
                </ul>
            </div>
        </div>
    </nav>

Answer 1

Just add this code to your code.

a.nav-link {
    display: flex;
    align-items: center;
}

here is the working codepen for your code. https://codepen.io/irinnahar/pen/KjGpoL