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marcamillion
marcamillion

Reputation: 33785

Bootstrap Dropdown does not work for me

I am using Chrome on OS X, and when I do a plain vanilla Bootstrap test it doesn't work.

I use the regular v2.3.2 files downloaded from here, and I re-created a vanilla test.

This is how my index.html looks:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">

<head>
    <meta charset="utf-8" />
    <title>Test</title>
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
    <meta name="description" content="" />
    <meta name="author" content="" />

    <link href="css/bootstrap.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="css/bootstrap-responsive.css" rel="stylesheet" />

    <script src="js/jquery-1.7.2.min.js"></script>
    <script src="js/bootstrap.js"></script>

<script>
    $('.dropdown-toggle').dropdown()
</script>

    <!--[if lt IE 9]>
      <script src="http://html5shim.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/html5.js"></script>
    <![endif]-->
</head>

<body>

    <h2>Hello</h2>

    <p>There should be a dropdown right below this paragraph.</p>

    <div class="row">
        <div class="span12">
            <ul class="dropdown-menu" role="menu" aria-labelledby="dropdownMenu">
              <li><a tabindex="-1" href="#">Action</a></li>
              <li><a tabindex="-1" href="#">Another action</a></li>
              <li><a tabindex="-1" href="#">Something else here</a></li>
              <li class="divider"></li>
              <li><a tabindex="-1" href="#">Separated link</a></li>
            </ul>
        </div>
    </div>


</body>
</html>

When I do this, this is what I see:

Bootstrap Dropdown Not Working

Yet in the source, I see this outputted:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">

<head>
    <meta charset="utf-8" />
    <title>Test</title>
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
    <meta name="description" content="" />
    <meta name="author" content="" />

    <link href="css/bootstrap.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="css/bootstrap-responsive.css" rel="stylesheet" />

    <script src="js/jquery-1.7.2.min.js"></script>
    <script src="js/bootstrap.js"></script>

    <!--[if lt IE 9]>
      <script src="http://html5shim.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/html5.js"></script>
    <![endif]-->
</head>

<body>

    <h2>Hello</h2>

    <p>There should be a dropdown right below this paragraph.</p>

    <div class="row">
        <div class="span12">
            <ul class="dropdown-menu" role="menu" aria-labelledby="dropdownMenu">
              <li><a tabindex="-1" href="#">Action</a></li>
              <li><a tabindex="-1" href="#">Another action</a></li>
              <li><a tabindex="-1" href="#">Something else here</a></li>
              <li class="divider"></li>
              <li><a tabindex="-1" href="#">Separated link</a></li>
            </ul>
        </div>
    </div>


</body>
</html>

Why does this not work?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1467

Answers (2)

412
412

Reputation: 1438

In addition to including the dropdown trigger before the unordered list (the <a>) you've also forgotten to wrap your menu with an element that has the .dropdown class, e.g.

<div class="row">
    <div class="span12">
        <div class="dropdown">
        <a class="dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown" href="#">Dropdown trigger</a>
        <ul class="dropdown-menu" role="menu" aria-labelledby="dropdownMenu">
          <li><a tabindex="-1" href="#">Action</a></li>
          <li><a tabindex="-1" href="#">Another action</a></li>
          <li><a tabindex="-1" href="#">Something else here</a></li>
          <li class="divider"></li>
          <li><a tabindex="-1" href="#">Separated link</a></li>
        </ul>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>

Example: http://jsfiddle.net/BVmUL/73/

Upvotes: 2

BENARD Patrick
BENARD Patrick

Reputation: 31005

With adding a 'a' tag before the ul, like write in http://getbootstrap.com/2.3.2/javascript.html#dropdowns

<div class="row">
    <div class="span12">
        <a class="dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown" href="#">Dropdown trigger</a>
        <ul class="dropdown-menu" role="menu" aria-labelledby="dropdownMenu">
          <li><a tabindex="-1" href="#">Action</a></li>
          <li><a tabindex="-1" href="#">Another action</a></li>
          <li><a tabindex="-1" href="#">Something else here</a></li>
          <li class="divider"></li>
          <li><a tabindex="-1" href="#">Separated link</a></li>
        </ul>
    </div>
</div>

Upvotes: 1

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