Bootstrap collapse navbar on click [duplicate]

Question

I'm using bootstraps nav bar.When a user clicks on a nav-bar button, the nav bar stays open. How to collapse the nav bar when a nav-bar button is clicked?.

<nav class="navbar navbar-default" role="navigation">
  <div class="container-fluid">
    <div class="navbar-header">
      <button type="button" class="navbar-toggle collapsed" data-toggle="collapse" data-target="#bs-example-navbar-collapse-1">
        <span class="sr-only">Toggle navigation</span>
        <span class="icon-bar"></span>
        <span class="icon-bar"></span>
        <span class="icon-bar"></span>
      </button>
      <a class="navbar-brand">Brand</a>
    </div>

    <div class="collapse navbar-collapse" id="bs-example-navbar-collapse-1">
      <ul class="nav navbar-nav navbar-right">
        <li class="active"><a data-toggle="tab" href="#sectionA">Page1</a></li>
        <li><a data-toggle="tab" href="#sectionB">Page2</a></li>
        <li><a data-toggle="tab" href="#sectionC">Page3</a></li>
       </ul>
    </div>
  </div>
</nav>

Screenshot:

This is how it is after clicking on a nav-bar button (menu stays open):

This is how I want it to be after clicking on a nav-bar button (back to original state):

Answer 1

I have two solutions for this:

First option: data-toggle attribute

You can add the following attributes to the anchors data-toggle="collapse" data-target=".in" This way, menu will collapse when a menu item is selected.

Here's your code:

    <nav class="navbar navbar-default" role="navigation">
      <div class="container-fluid">
        <div class="navbar-header">
          <button type="button" class="navbar-toggle collapsed" data-toggle="collapse" data-target="#bs-example-navbar-collapse-1">
            <span class="sr-only">Toggle navigation</span>
            <span class="icon-bar"></span>
            <span class="icon-bar"></span>
            <span class="icon-bar"></span>
          </button>
          <a class="navbar-brand">Brand</a>
        </div>

        <div class="collapse navbar-collapse" id="bs-example-navbar-collapse-1">
          <ul class="nav navbar-nav navbar-right">
<!-- Add data-toggle="collapse" data-target=".in" to <a> elements-->
<!-- This way they will collapse the responsive menu when clicked -->
            <li class="active"><a data-toggle="collapse" data-target=".in" href="#sectionA">Page1</a></li>
            <li><a data-toggle="collapse" data-target=".in" href="#sectionB">Page2</a></li>
            <li><a data-toggle="collapse" data-target=".in" href="#sectionC">Page3</a></li>
           </ul>
        </div>
      </div>
    </nav>

Example: http://jsfiddle.net/Frondor/sey4wsah/

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2nd alternative option: using jQuery (best method)

If the first example isn't working for you, you can just add a few lines of jQuery below jQuery and Bootstrap.js library calls, don't forget about the jquery.js and Bootstrap.js API:

<script src="/js/jquery.min.js"> <!--suppose these are the same paths you're using for it -->
<script src="/js/bootstrap.min.js">

And below:

<script>
$(document).ready(function () {
    $("nav").find("li").on("click", "a", function () {
        $('.navbar-collapse.in').collapse('hide');
    });
});
</script>

This will match every link on your responsive menu, and collapse said menu at click event. Give it a try