bootstrap navbar brand centering - html

Question

I'd like to center the brand name inside the navbar between a bunch of links (i.e., 2 links to it's left and 2 to it's right).
The thing is that I want to also make a menu for when the navbar is collapseed and make it like so that the brand WON'T appear in the dropdown list.
https://jsfiddle.net/u471wydy/

Answer 1

UPDATED
Please checkout my solution at CODEPEN
Hope it helps you.
HTML:
<div class="container">
<nav class="navbar navbar-inverse" role="navigation">
<div class="navbar-header">
<button type="button" class="navbar-toggle" data-toggle="collapse" data-target=".navbar-ex1-collapse">
<span class="sr-only">Toggle navigation</span>
<span class="icon-bar"></span>
<span class="icon-bar"></span>
<span class="icon-bar"></span>
</button>
</div>
<a class="navbar-brand navbar-nav" href="{% url 'chat:index' %}">Chaty</a>
<div class="collapse navbar-collapse navbar-ex1-collapse">
<ul class="nav navbar-nav">
<li>Link</li>
<li>Link</li>
</ul>
<ul class="nav navbar-nav">
<li>Link</li>
<li>Link</li>
</ul>
</div>
</nav>
</div>
CSS:
.navbar {
border-radius: 0px;
}
.navbar-brand {
position: absolute;
width: 100%;
left: 0;
top: 0;
text-align: center;
margin: auto;
}
.navbar-toggle {
z-index: 3;
}
ul.nav.navbar-nav {
margin: 0;
}
#media (min-width: 768px) {
.navbar .navbar-nav {
display: inline-block;
float: none;
vertical-align: top;
}
.navbar .navbar-collapse {
text-align: center;
}
ul.nav.navbar-nav {
margin-left: 30px;
margin-right: 30px;
}
}