Navbar toggle button opens then immediately closes when set to display toggle button at specific pixels

Question

I've been learning bootstrap 3 and sass for last few days. Anyway, I'm trying to make a navbar that collapses when screen size is below 1000px. And it works, but when I click on toggle button, to show menu dropdown, it opens, then instantly closes.

Here is the code: http://jsbin.com/zahatekisa/edit?html,css,output

.navbar {
  background-color: #202C39;
}
div.navbar-header a.navbar-brand {
  font-family: "Caveat Brush";
  margin-right: 20px;
  font-size: 23px;
  color: #F29559;
}
div.navbar-header a.navbar-brand:hover {
  color: #ffb36b;
}
ul.nav.navbar-nav li a {
  font-family: "PT Sans", "cursive";
  color: #e6e6e6;
}
ul.nav.navbar-nav li a:hover {
  color: #ffffff;
  background-color: #2a394a;
}
ul.navbar-right li p.navbar-text {
  display: block;
}
@media (max-width: 1050px) {
  ul.navbar-right li a {
    float: left;
  }
  ul.navbar-right li p.navbar-text {
    margin-left: 15px;
    position: relative;
    top: -4px;
  }
}
@media (max-width: 1000px) {
  .navbar-header {
    float: none;
  }
  .navbar-toggle {
    display: block;
  }
  .navbar-collapse {
    border-top: 1px solid transparent;
    box-shadow: inset 0 1px 0 rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.1);
  }
  .navbar-collapse.collapse {
    display: none !important;
  }
  .navbar-nav {
    float: none !important;
    margin: 7.5px -15px;
  }
  .navbar-nav > li {
    float: none;
  }
  .navbar-nav > li > a {
    padding-top: 10px;
    padding-bottom: 10px;
  }
}

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.6/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
<link href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.6/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet"/>
<nav class="navbar navbar-default navbar-fixed-top">
  <div class="container">
    <div class="navbar-header">
      <!--Making the toggle button-->
      <button type="button" class="navbar-toggle" data-toggle="collapse" data-target="#myNavbar">
        <span class="sr-only">Toggle navigation</span>
        <span class="icon-bar"></span>
        <span class="icon-bar"></span>
        <span class="icon-bar"></span>
      </button>
      <!--Logo-->
      <a href="#" class="navbar-brand">Lorem ipsum dolor.</a>
    </div>

    <div class="collapse navbar-collapse" id="myNavbar">
      <ul class="nav navbar-nav">
        <li><a href="#">Lorem</a>
        </li>
        <li><a href="#">Lorem</a>
        </li>
        <li><a href="#">Lorem</a>
        </li>
        <li><a href="#">Lorem</a>
        </li>
      </ul>
      <ul class="nav navbar-nav navbar-right">
        <li>
          <p class="navbar-text">Contact Me:</p>
        </li>
        <li><a href="#"><i class="fa fa-facebook-official" aria-hidden="true"></i></a>
        </li>
        <li><a href="#"><i class="fa fa-twitter-square" aria-hidden="true"></i></a>
        </li>
        <li><a href="#"><i class="fa fa-skype" aria-hidden="true"></i></a>
        </li>
        <li><a href="#"><i class="fa fa-envelope" aria-hidden="true"></i></a>
        </li>
      </ul>
    </div>
  </div>
</nav>

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Sorry. Thought you could just look at source. Here is the jsbin with code: http://jsbin.com/zahatekisa/edit?html,css,output — petek, Jun 15 '16 at 15:32

score 6 · Accepted Answer · edited Mar 01 '21 at 00:38

The problem here is this particular style you have, which is forcing the navbar to be hidden regardless of whether it is open or closed:

@media (max-width: 1000px) {
    .navbar-collapse.collapse {
        display: none !important;
    }
}

I can see what you're doing here - you're trying to combine Bootstrap's .collapse class with your own custom addition to the navbar. However, there's a problem with your logic: I suspect you wrote your style under the assumption that Bootstrap toggles .collapse to hide or show collapsed content. This is incorrect. In fact, Bootstrap toggles .in for this - so you should not be hiding the content if the element has the class .in. Simply change your selector to:

@media (max-width: 1000px) {
    .navbar-collapse.collapse:not(.in) {
        display: none !important;
    }
}

Here's the fix in context:

.navbar {
  background-color: #202C39;
}
div.navbar-header a.navbar-brand {
  font-family: "Caveat Brush";
  margin-right: 20px;
  font-size: 23px;
  color: #F29559;
}
div.navbar-header a.navbar-brand:hover {
  color: #ffb36b;
}
ul.nav.navbar-nav li a {
  font-family: "PT Sans", "cursive";
  color: #e6e6e6;
}
ul.nav.navbar-nav li a:hover {
  color: #ffffff;
  background-color: #2a394a;
}
ul.navbar-right li p.navbar-text {
  display: block;
}
@media (max-width: 1050px) {
  ul.navbar-right li a {
    float: left;
  }
  ul.navbar-right li p.navbar-text {
    margin-left: 15px;
    position: relative;
    top: -4px;
  }
}
@media (max-width: 1000px) {
  .navbar-header {
    float: none;
  }
  .navbar-toggle {
    display: block;
  }
  .navbar-collapse {
    border-top: 1px solid transparent;
    box-shadow: inset 0 1px 0 rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.1);
  }
  .navbar-collapse.collapse:not(.in) {
    display: none !important;
  }
  .navbar-nav {
    float: none !important;
    margin: 7.5px -15px;
  }
  .navbar-nav > li {
    float: none;
  }
  .navbar-nav > li > a {
    padding-top: 10px;
    padding-bottom: 10px;
  }
}

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.6/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
<link href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.6/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet"/>
<nav class="navbar navbar-default navbar-fixed-top">
  <div class="container">
    <div class="navbar-header">
      <!--Making the toggle button-->
      <button type="button" class="navbar-toggle" data-toggle="collapse" data-target="#myNavbar">
        <span class="sr-only">Toggle navigation</span>
        <span class="icon-bar"></span>
        <span class="icon-bar"></span>
        <span class="icon-bar"></span>
      </button>
      <!--Logo-->
      <a href="#" class="navbar-brand">Lorem ipsum dolor.</a>
    </div>

    <div class="collapse navbar-collapse" id="myNavbar">
      <ul class="nav navbar-nav">
        <li><a href="#">Lorem</a>
        </li>
        <li><a href="#">Lorem</a>
        </li>
        <li><a href="#">Lorem</a>
        </li>
        <li><a href="#">Lorem</a>
        </li>
      </ul>
      <ul class="nav navbar-nav navbar-right">
        <li>
          <p class="navbar-text">Contact Me:</p>
        </li>
        <li><a href="#"><i class="fa fa-facebook-official" aria-hidden="true"></i></a>
        </li>
        <li><a href="#"><i class="fa fa-twitter-square" aria-hidden="true"></i></a>
        </li>
        <li><a href="#"><i class="fa fa-skype" aria-hidden="true"></i></a>
        </li>
        <li><a href="#"><i class="fa fa-envelope" aria-hidden="true"></i></a>
        </li>
      </ul>
    </div>
  </div>
</nav>

(Something else worth noting is that you may want to use max-width: 768px rather than max-width: 1000px for your media query, since that's the Bootstrap breakpoint for "tablet" sized devices.)

Thanks for answer, this helped me solve this issue with my problem but with minor change in Bootstrap 4. In Bootstrap 4, you have to change ".in" for ".show": @media (max-width: 1000px) { .navbar-collapse.collapse:not(.show) { display: none !important; } } — jic, Oct 11 '18 at 14:50

Navbar toggle button opens then immediately closes when set to display toggle button at specific pixels

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