Changing the width of links/buttons on a Bootstrap navbar - html

Question

I had a question about the sizing/width of buttons in a Bootstrap Navbar. I tried setting the width of each of them to 50% in my main CSS file so that it would fit in the Nav, and I'm still not having any luck. It seems like there's a lot of space between links which I want to get rid of. Could someone help me figure out what I'm doing wrong?
HTML
<nav class="navbar navbar-default navbar-fixed-top" role="navigation" bs-navbar>
<div class="navbar-header">
<a class="navbar-brand navbar-left" href="#">Brand</a>
</div>
<ul class="nav nav-justified navbar-right">
<li data-match-route="/$">Home</li>
<li data-match-route="/page-one">Page One</li>
<li data-match-route="/page-two.*">Page Two</li>
<li>
<a class="btn btn-sm btn-secondary-outline" href="/users/sign_up" id="SignUp">SIGN UP</a>
</li>
<li>
<a class="btn btn-sm btn-primary-outline" href="/users/sign_in" id="SignIn">SIGN IN</a>
</li>
<li>
<a class="btn btn-sm btn-gray-outline" href="/professionals/sign_in" id="People">People</a>
</li>
</ul>
</nav>
CSS
#HomeNav {
max-width: 50%;
}
(for example)

Answer 1

It's easy, your <ul>tag was not set up correctly, change it to this <ul class="nav navbar-nav">
HTML:
<nav class="navbar navbar-default navbar-fixed-top" role="navigation" bs-navbar>
<div class="navbar-header">
<a class="navbar-brand navbar-left" href="#">Brand</a>
</div>
<ul class="nav navbar-nav">
<li data-match-route="/$">Home</li>
<li data-match-route="/page-one">Page One</li>
<li data-match-route="/page-two.*">Page Two</li>
<li>
<a class="btn btn-sm btn-secondary-outline" href="/users/sign_up" id="SignUp">SIGN UP</a>
</li>
<li>
<a class="btn btn-sm btn-primary-outline" href="/users/sign_in" id="SignIn">SIGN IN</a>
</li>
<li>
<a class="btn btn-sm btn-gray-outline" href="/professionals/sign_in" id="People">People</a>
</li>
</ul>
</nav>
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Answer 2

Maybe this well help. If you're trying to have evenly spaced or justified links that you may need to add to.
You can change the display to table-cell and remove the floats from the navbar.
See working example Snippet.
#media (min-width: 767px) {
.navbar.navbar-custom .navbar-nav {
margin: 0;
display: table;
width: 100%;
}
.navbar.navbar-custom .navbar-nav > li {
display: table-cell;
float: none;
}
.navbar.navbar-custom .navbar-nav > li > a {
text-align: center;
}
}
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<link href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.5/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet" />
<script src="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.5/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
<nav class="navbar navbar-default navbar-custom" role="navigation">
<div class="container-fluid">
<!-- Brand and toggle get grouped for better mobile display -->
<div class="navbar-header">
<button type="button" class="navbar-toggle collapsed" data-toggle="collapse" data-target="#bs-navbar" aria-expanded="false"> <span class="sr-only">Toggle navigation</span>
<span class="icon-bar"></span>
<span class="icon-bar"></span>
<span class="icon-bar"></span>
</button>
</div>
<div class="collapse navbar-collapse" id="bs-navbar">
<ul class="nav navbar-nav">
<li data-match-route="/$">Home
</li>
<li data-match-route="/page-one">Page One
</li>
<li data-match-route="/page-two.*">Page Two
</li>
<li> <a class="nav-btn btn-secondary-outline" href="/users/sign_up" id="SignUp">SIGN UP</a>
</li>
<li> <a class="nav-btn btn-primary-outline" href="/users/sign_in" id="SignIn">SIGN IN</a>
</li>
<li> <a class="nav-btn btn-gray-outline" href="/professionals/sign_in" id="People">People</a>
</li>
<li> <a class="nav-btn btn-gray-outline" href="/professionals/sign_in" id="People">People</a>
</li>
<li> <a class="nav-btn btn-gray-outline" href="/professionals/sign_in" id="People">People</a>
</li>
<li> <a class="nav-btn btn-gray-outline" href="/professionals/sign_in" id="People">People</a>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</nav>