Unable to float a twitter bootstrap navbar item right with either class=pull-right or float:right

Question

I am using Twitter bootstrap and Rails and I can\'t seem to float a navbar item to the right.

I tried using something like this:

Answer 1

have you tried being more specific with your CSS?

.navbar ul.nav li.whoami {
    float:right;
}

Sometimes if the prior CSS (bootstrap in this case) is very specific, it requires the same level of specificity (or greater) to override it.

Might be helpful to post a jsfiddle. Screenshots are difficult to debug ;)