Bootstrap horizontal scrollable tab bar

Question

I am creating an app in Bootstrap 3 with a tab bar. I am dynamically adding and removing tabs. This all works great, what I would like to do though is to have the tab bar be horizontally scrollable through the tabs if there are too many tabs to fit in the width of the app instead of creating multiple rows or tabs.

Has anyone done this or have an idea how to implement this?

Answer 1

Here is an example:

(Not working in snippet for some reason, so here is a link to Bootply : http://www.bootply.com/oROUAMwsG1)

.nav-tabs {
  overflow-x: auto;
  overflow-y: hidden;
  display: -webkit-box;
  display: -moz-box;
}
.nav-tabs>li {
  float: none;
}

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.4/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
 <link href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.4/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet" />
<div class="container">
  <div class="col-md-4">
    <div class="tabbable">
      <ul class="nav nav-tabs">
        <li class="active"><a href="#tab1" data-toggle="tab">Section 1</a>
        </li>
        <li><a href="#tab2" data-toggle="tab">Section 2</a>
        </li>
        <li><a href="#tab2" data-toggle="tab">Section 3</a>
        </li>
        <li><a href="#tab2" data-toggle="tab">Section 4</a>
        </li>
        <li><a href="#tab2" data-toggle="tab">Section 5</a>
        </li>
        <li><a href="#tab2" data-toggle="tab">Section 6</a>
        </li>
        <li><a href="#tab2" data-toggle="tab">Section 7</a>
        </li>
      </ul>
      <div class="tab-content">
        <div class="tab-pane active" id="tab1">
          <p>I'm in Section 1.</p>
        </div>
        <div class="tab-pane" id="tab2">
          <p>I'm in Section 2.</p>
        </div>
      </div>
    </div>
  </div>
</div>

Answer 2

i solved this using:

.nav.nav-tabs {
  overflow-x: auto;
  overflow-y: hidden;
  flex-wrap: nowrap;
}

example: https://codepen.io/r3l4x/pen/mdpdMLQ

note sure about cross browser stuff, so may not be a good answer.