Centering brand logo in Bootstrap Navbar

Question

I am trying to implement a Bootstrap 3 navbar so that the brand logo to always remain in the middle. This is the code:

It makes a nice looking navbar:

However, I would like the logo (green) remain in the middle persistently. I am adding this style to the tag with "brand" class:

<a class="brand" style="margin: 0; float: none; text-align:center" href="#">
  <img src="/Content/themes/next/images/logo.png" />
</a>

It partially solves the problem: the logo is in the middle but it pushes the rest of the navbar elements down:

This is an undesirable effect that I would like to eliminate. Could you suggest a solution? Maybe it's a wrong approach to centering a logo from the start ?

Answer 1

Try this:

.navbar {
    position: relative;
}
.brand {
    position: absolute;
    left: 50%;
    margin-left: -50px !important;  /* 50% of your logo width */
    display: block;
}

Centering your logo by 50% and minus half of your logo width so that it won't have problem when zooming in and out.

See fiddle