How to justify navbar-nav in Bootstrap 3

Question

I\'m attempting to justify a navbar (make the navbar contents stretch) in Bootstrap 3. I\'ve added margin: 0 auto; max-width: 1000px; to the nav* c

Answer 1

<div class="navbar navbar-default navbar-fixed-top" role="navigation">
 <div class="container">
<div class="navbar-header">
  <button type="button" class="navbar-toggle" data-toggle="collapse" data-target=".navbar-collapse">
    <span class="sr-only">Toggle navigation</span>
    <span class="icon-bar"></span>
    <span class="icon-bar"></span>
    <span class="icon-bar"></span>
  </button>
</div>
<div class="collapse navbar-collapse">
  <ul class="nav navbar-nav">
    <li><a href="#">Home</a></li>
    <li><a href="#about">About</a></li>
    <li><a href="#contact">Contact</a></li>  
  </ul>
</div>

and for the css

@media ( min-width: 768px ) { 
    .navbar > .container {
        text-align: center;
    }
    .navbar-header,.navbar-brand,.navbar .navbar-nav,.navbar .navbar-nav > li {
        float: none;
        display: inline-block;
    }
    .collapse.navbar-collapse {
        width: auto;
        clear: none;
    }
}

see it live http://www.bootply.com/103172

Answer 2

I know this is an old post but I would like share my solution. I spent several hours trying to make a justified navigation menu. You do not really need to modify anything in bootstrap css. Just need to add the correct class in the html.

   <nav class="nav navbar-default navbar-fixed-top">
        <div class="navbar-header">
            <button type="button" class="navbar-toggle collapsed" data-toggle="collapse" data-target="#collapsable-1" aria-expanded="false">
                <span class="sr-only">Toggle navigation</span>
                <span class="icon-bar"></span>
                <span class="icon-bar"></span>
                <span class="icon-bar"></span>
            </button>
            <a class="navbar-brand" href="#top">Brand Name</a>
        </div>
        <div class="collapse navbar-collapse" id="collapsable-1">
            <ul class="nav nav-justified">
                <li><a href="#about-me">About Me</a></li>
                <li><a href="#skills">Skills</a></li>
                <li><a href="#projects">Projects</a></li>
                <li><a href="#contact-me">Contact Me</a></li>
            </ul>
        </div>
    </nav>

This CSS code will simply remove the navbar-brand class when the screen reaches 768px.

media@(min-width: 768px){
   .navbar-brand{
        display: none;
    }
}

Answer 3

To justify the bootstrap 3 navbar-nav justify menu to 100% width you can use this code:

@media (min-width: 768px){
    .navbar-nav {
        margin: 0 auto;
        display: table;
        table-layout: auto;
        float: none;
        width: 100%;
    }
    .navbar-nav>li {
        display: table-cell;
        float: none;
        text-align: center;
    }
} 

Answer 4

It turns out that there is a float: left property by default on all navbar-nav>li elements, which is why they were all scrunching up to the left. Once I added the code below, it made the navbar both centered and not scrunched up.

.navbar-nav>li {
        float: none;
}

Hope this helps someone else who's looking to center a navbar.

Answer 5

Here is a more easy solution. just remove the "navbar-nav" class and add "nav-justified".

Answer 6

Hi you can use this below code for working justified nav

<div class="navbar navbar-inverse">
    <ul class="navbar-nav nav nav-justified">
        <li class="active"><a href="#">Inicio</a></li>
        <li><a href="#">Item 1</a></li>
        <li><a href="#">Item 2</a></li>
        <li><a href="#">Item 3</a></li>
        <li><a href="#">Item 4</a></li>
    </ul>
 </div>