Question

I’ve been trying to change the text color in a bootstrap template’s navbar and have been unsuccessful. Anyone know where I’m going wrong? Here is my code.

<!--navbar-->
<div class="navbar navbar-fixed-top">
  <div class="navbar-inner" id="nav-inner">
    <div class="container">
      <a class="btn btn-navbar" data-toggle="collapse" data-target=".nav-collapse">
        <span class="icon-bar"></span>
        <span class="icon-bar"></span>
        <span class="icon-bar"></span>
      </a>
      <a class="brand" href="#">Restaurant</a>
      <div class="nav-collapse">
        <ul class="nav">
          <li class="active"><a href="#"><i class="icon-home icon-white"></i> Home</a></li>
          <li><a href="#">Link</a></li>
          <li><a href="#">Link</a></li>
          <li><a href="#">Link</a></li>
          <li class="dropdown">
            <a href="#" class="dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown">Dropdown <b class="caret">   </b></a>
            <ul class="dropdown-menu">
              <li><a href="#">Action</a></li>
              <li><a href="#">Another action</a></li>
            </ul>
          </li>
        </ul>
        <form class="navbar-search pull-right" action="">
          <input type="text" class="search-query span2" placeholder="Search">
        </form>
      </div><!-- /.nav-collapse -->
    </div><!-- /.container -->
  </div><!-- /.navbar-inner -->
</div><!-- /.navbar -->
<!--navbar-->

The CSS:

.navbar-inner {
    color: #FFF;
}

I also tried this:

#nav-inner {
    color: #FFF;
}

Answer 1

If you want to change the css for the tabs you need to add color: #ddd; to the following

.navbar .nav > li > a {
    float: none;
    line-height: 19px;
    padding: 9px 10px 11px;
    text-decoration: none;
    text-shadow: 0 -1px 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.25);
    color:  #ddd;
}

Hope it helps!!