Multiple Collapse buttons in navbar with Bootstrap 3.0

Question

I'm using Bootstrap 3.0 to show a navbar with some links and a search field. When i go to "mobile version" i have a button that collapses the navbar and show all the content: the links and the search field. Now I need two buttons, one to collapse only the links of the navbar and the other button to collapse only the search field. How can i make this?

Answer 1

Separate the links and the search form into two navbar-collapse elements and have each button target the corresponding one:

Sample markup:

<nav class="navbar navbar-default" role="navigation">
    <div class="navbar-header">
        <button type="button" class="navbar-toggle" data-toggle="collapse" data-target="#search">Toggle search</button>
        <button type="button" class="navbar-toggle" data-toggle="collapse" data-target="#links">Toggle links</button> 
        <a class="navbar-brand" href="#">Brand</a>
    </div>
    <ul class="collapse navbar-collapse nav navbar-nav" id="links">
        <!--Links go here-->
    </ul>
    <div class="collapse navbar-collapse" id="search">
        <form class="navbar-form navbar-left" role="search">
            <div class="form-group">
                <input type="text" class="form-control" placeholder="Search">
            </div>
            <button type="submit" class="btn btn-default">Submit</button>
        </form>
    </div>
</nav>

You would then just need to fix some conflicting styles between .navbar-nav and .navbar-collapse by adding this to your CSS:

@media (max-width:767px) {
    .navbar-nav.navbar-collapse {
        margin-left: 0;
        margin-right: 0;
        padding-left: 0;
        padding-right: 0;
    }
}

Here's a demo fiddle