Bootstrap 3 Navbar Not Responsive

John Halbert picture John Halbert · Apr 25, 2015 · Viewed 9.8k times · Source

I've been testing my bootstrap site on various devices to ensure it's responsive. I've got everything resizing correctly for different display sizes except the navbar. On my browser, when I resize the window horizontally it seems to respond, collapsing the menu as expected, but on mobile devices I still see the navbar as if it were displaying in a full screen window on a desktop or laptop. Here is the code for my navbar:

<div class="container">
  <nav class="navbar navbar-default navbar-fixed-top">
    <div class="container-fluid">
      <div class="navbar-header">
        <a class="navbar-brand" href="#">
          <img alt="WinShir" src="img/rocket.png" /> WinShir
        </a>
        <button type='button' class="navbar-toggle" data-toggle="collapse" data-target=".navbar-collapse">
          <span class="icon-bar"></span>
          <span class="icon-bar"></span>
          <span class="icon-bar"></span>
          <span class="sr-only">Toggle Navigation</span>
        </button>
      </div>

      <ul class="nav navbar-nav navbar-right collapse navbar-collapse">
        <li><a href="#signInModal" data-toggle="modal">Sign In</a></li>
        <li><a href="#signupModal" data-toggle="modal">Sign Up</a></li>
      </ul>
    </div>

  </nav>
</div>

I've tried changing the nav element to a div to see if that helped without success. I also removed the enclosing container class div to see if that helped with no luck there either.

Answer

ThisClark picture ThisClark · Apr 25, 2015

You probably didn't set your viewport. Put this in the <head> and see if it makes a difference.

<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">