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btrballin
btrballin

Reputation: 1464

Centering navbar buttons in bootstrap

I'm trying to get my hands onto some web designing and I was not able to figure out how to make the navigation buttons in my project centered. I would like the buttons from Home to Page 3 centered and was wondering if there was a simple way to do that in the HTML file alone without needing a separate CSS class. enter image description here

    <!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
    <!-- The above 3 meta tags *must* come first in the head; any other head content must come *after* these tags -->
    <title>Bootstrap 101 Template</title>

    <!-- Bootstrap -->
    <link href="css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet">

    <!-- HTML5 shim and Respond.js for IE8 support of HTML5 elements and media queries -->
    <!-- WARNING: Respond.js doesn't work if you view the page via file:// -->
    <!--[if lt IE 9]>
      <script src="https://oss.maxcdn.com/html5shiv/3.7.2/html5shiv.min.js"></script>
      <script src="https://oss.maxcdn.com/respond/1.4.2/respond.min.js"></script>
    <![endif]-->
  </head>
  <body>
<nav class="navbar navbar-default">
  <div class="container-fluid">
    <div class="navbar-header">
      <a class="navbar-brand" href="#">Website Name</a>
    </div>
    <div>
      <ul class="nav navbar-nav">
        <li class="active"><a href="#">Home</a></li>
        <li><a href="#">Page 1</a></li>
        <li><a href="#">Page 2</a></li>
        <li><a href="#">Page 3</a></li>
      </ul>
    </div>
  </div>
</nav>

    <!-- jQuery (necessary for Bootstrap's JavaScript plugins) -->
    <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.3/jquery.min.js"></script>
    <!-- Include all compiled plugins (below), or include individual files as needed -->
    <script src="js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
  </body>
</html>

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1655

Answers (3)

vanburen
vanburen

Reputation: 21663

The only way you can accomplish this is by adjusting some CSS properties. Basically remove the float from navbar-nav and center the text. But if you really want them to be centered, you have to account for the navbar-brand class by assigning it a width and adding a negative margin equal to half that width to the navbar-nav.

See working Example Snippets.

@media (min-width: 768px) {
  .navbar.navbar-default {
    height: 50px;
  }
  .navbar.navbar-default .container-fluid,
  .navbar.navbar-default .container {
    text-align: center;
  }
  .navbar.navbar-default .navbar-nav {
    display: inline-block;
    float: none;
    margin-left: -75px;
  }
  .navbar.navbar-default .navbar-brand {
    width: 150px;
  }
}
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.5/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
<link href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.5/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet" />
<nav class="navbar navbar-default">
  <div class="container-fluid">
    <div class="navbar-header">
      <button type="button" class="navbar-toggle collapsed" data-toggle="collapse" data-target="#bs-nav" 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="#">Website Name</a>

    </div>
    <div class="collapse navbar-collapse" id="bs-nav">
      <ul class="nav navbar-nav">
        <li class="active"><a href="#">Home</a>

        </li>
        <li><a href="#">Page 1</a>

        </li>
        <li><a href="#">Page 2</a>

        </li>
        <li><a href="#">Page 3</a>

        </li>
      </ul>
    </div>
  </div>
</nav>

Mobile Center

.navbar.navbar-default .container-fluid,
.navbar.navbar-default .container {
  text-align: center;
}
@media (min-width: 768px) {
  .navbar.navbar-default {
    height: 50px;
  }
  .navbar.navbar-default .navbar-nav {
    display: inline-block;
    float: none;
    margin-left: -75px;
  }
  .navbar.navbar-default .navbar-brand {
    width: 150px;
  }
}
@media (max-width: 767px) {
  .navbar-default .navbar-brand.navbar-brand-centered {
    position: absolute;
    left: 50%;
    display: block;
    width: 150px;
    text-align: center;
    top: 0;
  }
  .navbar.navbar-default > .container .navbar-brand.navbar-brand-centered,
  .navbar.navbar-default > .container-fluid .navbar-brand.navbar-brand-centered {
    margin-left: -75px;
    margin-top: 0;
    margin-bottom: 0;
  }
}
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.5/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
<link href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.5/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet" />
<nav class="navbar navbar-default">
  <div class="container-fluid">
    <div class="navbar-header">
      <button type="button" class="navbar-toggle collapsed" data-toggle="collapse" data-target="#bs-nav" 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 navbar-brand-centered" href="#">Website Name</a>

    </div>
    <div class="collapse navbar-collapse" id="bs-nav">
      <ul class="nav navbar-nav">
        <li class="active"><a href="#">Home</a>

        </li>
        <li><a href="#">Page 1</a>

        </li>
        <li><a href="#">Page 2</a>

        </li>
        <li><a href="#">Page 3</a>

        </li>
      </ul>
    </div>
  </div>
</nav>

Upvotes: 1

Fiido93
Fiido93

Reputation: 1978

Using this css will get your navigation button in center position.

navbar .navbar-nav {
    display: inline-block;
    float: none;
}

.navbar .navbar-collapse {
    text-align: center;
}

DEMO

Upvotes: 0

Pirson
Pirson

Reputation: 75

Make some changes in Bootstrap.CSS May be like this...

.nav navbar-nav
{
    position: absolute;
    width: 100%;
    left: 0;
    text-align: center;
    margin: auto;
}

Check here => bootply

Upvotes: 1

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