Opening dropdown menu from navbar branding

Question

I would like to open a dropdown menu (using Twitter Bootstrap) everytime I click on the brand of my navbar, so I tried this code:

<div class="navbar navbar-fixed-top">
<div class="navbar-inner">
<div class="tabbable">
    <div class="dropdown">
    <a id="drop1" class="dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown" href="#menu">
        <div class="brand">Brand</div>
    </a>
    <ul class="dropdown-menu" role="menu" aria-labelledby="drop1">
        <li><a href="#">Action</a></li>
    </ul>
    </div>
<ul class="nav">
    <li>
        <a href="#" data-toggle="tab">Item</a>
    </li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>

Result: when I click on it, the menu appears, but it's over the brand, not under. How to fix it?

Examples

• Standard version [OK]: http://jsfiddle.net/4rdPU/2/
• Standard version + div class="brand" [Style problem]: http://jsfiddle.net/4rdPU/1/
• Brand version [Wrong menu position]: http://jsfiddle.net/4rdPU/3/

Answer 1

To properly render the dropdown, your brand must be a .nav li element. So just add the .brand class to a standard dropdown.

<div class="navbar navbar-fixed-top">
    <div class="navbar-inner">
        <div class="tabbable">
            <ul class="nav">
                <li class="dropdown">
                    <a id="drop1" class="dropdown-toggle brand" data-toggle="dropdown" href="#menu">
                        Brand
                    </a>
                    <ul class="dropdown-menu" role="menu" aria-labelledby="drop1">
                        <li><a href="#">Action</a></li>
                    </ul>
                </li>
                <li>
                    <a href="#" data-toggle="tab">Item</a>
                </li>
            </ul>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>

That will break your brand positioning, but you fan fix it with this simple CSS:

.navbar .brand {
    margin-left: 10px; /* This value could be different for another layout */
}