Check out the fiddle. I have a basic Bootstrap 3 responsive nav like so:
I am new to Bootstrap but with a small changed to the above code it works beautifully now. Remember that when you click on the logo the drop-down menu should close too, that is why I have added navbar-header to it!
jQuery(document).ready(function () {
jQuery(".nav a, .navbar-header a").click(function(event) {
// check if window is small enough so dropdown is created
jQuery(".navbar-collapse").removeClass("in").addClass("collapse");
});
});
Change this:
$(document).ready(function () {
$("#navbar li a").click(function(event) {
// check if window is small enough so dropdown is created
$("#navbar-toggle").is(":visible")
$("#nav-collapse").toggle();
});
});
to this:
$(document).ready(function () {
$("#navbar li a").click(function(event) {
// check if window is small enough so dropdown is created
$("#nav-collapse").removeClass("in").addClass("collapse");
});
});
See http://jsfiddle.net/fw7vh/4/
If need to fix this on bootstrap 4, try this jquery snippet. It works in this way: If navbar is expanded, nothing happens, (normal bootstrap behavior). If navbar is collapsed, after a click event, closes the navbar. Works on bootstrap 4
$(".navbar a").click(function(event) {
// check if window is small enough so dropdown is created
var toggle = $(".navbar-toggler").is(":visible");
if (toggle) {
$(".navbar-collapse").collapse('hide');
}
});
If you wanted to do this without JavaScript you could simply add the data-target and data-toggle to each list item, like so:
<li data-toggle="collapse" data-target=".nav-collapse"><a href="#option1">Option 1</a></li>
<li data-toggle="collapse" data-target=".nav-collapse"><a href="#option2">Option 2</a></li>
<li data-toggle="collapse" data-target=".nav-collapse"><a href="#option3">Option 3</a></li>
For the navbar, this really only works in the mobile view mode when there is a toggle button. Strange things happen when the navbar is exposed (the toggle button isn't showing).
I don't know why clicking/tapping on a menu item in a menu dropdown in a collapsed navbar doesn't automatically toggle the menu in Bootstrap. There may be a more graceful way to do this, but, here's how I fixed it (using Bootstrap 3.0.3):
<li class="visible-xs">
<a href="#" data-toggle="collapse" data-target=".navbar-collapse">Link</a>
</li>
<li class="hidden-xs">
<a href="#">Link</a>
</li>
Basically, there are two versions of the link, one that appears whenever the menu toggle is shown (at browser widths <768px) that will toggle the navbar menu, and one that doesn't collapse it (browser widths >768px). If you don't add that second type, it will show a strange phantom animated horizontal scroll bar when trying to toggle the menu when it is not there.
With Bootstrap 3.3.4 I realized my old way quit working. Updated it to:
if ($('div.navbar-collapse').hasClass('in')) {
$('button.navbar-toggle:visible').click();
}