Question

I have tried playing with the various class min/max heights and widths in CSS and can’t seem to prevent the top nav bar from collapsing my dropdown menus. I would prefer a fixed width, but full screen menu fixed to the top. The dropdowns work fine, but when I reduce the width of the browser window it collapses. I’ve removed the toggle but no love from bootstrap. Here is the code from bootstrap 2.0:

<div class="navbar navbar-fixed-top">
  <div class="navbar-inner">
    <div class="container-fluid">
      <a class="brand" href="./index.html">Brand Name&nbsp;</a>
        <ul class="nav">
           <form class="navbar-search">
             <input type="text" class="search-query" placeholder="Search Active Page...">
           </form>
        </ul>

       <ul class="nav pull-right">
               <li class="dropdown">
                <a href="#" class="dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown">
                    <i class="icon-user icon-white"></i>&nbsp;Pages<b class="caret"></b></a>
                  <ul class="dropdown-menu">
                    <li><a href="#">My Pages</a></li>
                    <li><a href="#">New Page</a></li>
                    <li class="divider"></li>
                    <li><a href="#">Share Your Pages</a></li>
                    <li><a href="#">Page Browswer</a></li>
                  </ul>
              </li> 

               <li class="dropdown">
                <a href="#" class="dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown">
                    <i class="icon-cog icon-white"></i>&nbsp;Settings<b class="caret"></b></a>
                  <ul class="dropdown-menu">
                    <li><a href="#">Upload Images</a></li>
                    <li><a href="#">Upload Files</a></li>
                    <li><a href="#">Link Other Accounts</a></li>
                     <li><a href="#">Manage Labels</a></li>
                    <li class="divider"></li>
                    <li><a href="#">Privacy Settings</a></li>
                    <li><a href="#">Help</a></li>
                 </ul>
              </li> 
           <li>&nbsp;&nbsp;<img src="img/small_fb_pic.jpg" vspace="5px"></li>
           <li class="dropdown">
            <a href="#" class="dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown">
               John<b class="caret"></b></a>
              <ul class="dropdown-menu">
                <li><a href="#">Logout</a></li>
                <li class="divider"></li>
                <li><a href="#">Help</a></li>
              </ul>
          </li>      


        </ul>  <!-- end left justified menu items -->


    </div>
  </div>
</div>

Answer 1

This is for responsive design on websites that can adjust to screen size (particularly on mobile devices). Learn more here:

http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/scaffolding.html#responsive

To fix this on your bootstrap solution, go to the bootstrap customize page, uncheck Responsive Layouts and re-download your bootstrap files.

http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/download.html

It’s better than editing the bootstrap files manually, imo. Hope this helps.