How to display text only in the collapsable navbar - html

Question

Navbar how it should be:
I want the text idealize, develop, prototype and about to appear next to the icons only in the collapsable navbar. The text appears on larger viewport sizes, too, what I don't want:
HTML
<nav class="navbar navbar-inverse navbar-fixed-top">
<div class="navbar-header">
<button type="button" class="navbar-toggle" data-toggle="collapse" data-target="#myNavbar">
<span class="icon-bar"></span>
<span class="icon-bar"></span>
<span class="icon-bar"></span>
</button>
<a class="navbar-brand" id="logo" href="#">
<img src="images/avezlogo.png">
</a>
</div>
<div>
<div class="collapse navbar-collapse" id="myNavbar">
<ul class="nav navbar-nav navbar-right">
<li id="orange"><a href="#idealize">
<img src="images/bulb.png"><span class="collapse">idealize</span>
</a></li>
<li id="cyan"><a href="#develop">
<img src="images/laptop.png"><span class="tittle">develop</span>
</a></li>
<li id="purple"><a href="#prototype">
<img src="images/printer.png"><span class="tittle">prototype</span>
</a></li>
<li id="red" class="dropdown"><a class="dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown" href="#about">
<img src="images/dots.png" id="dots"><span class="tittle">about</span>
</a>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</nav>
Sorry about any noob mistakes on my code. I'm new to Bootstrap and web design. Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

Answer 1

You can use display: none; inside of a media query to target and hide your images at the mobile breakpoint. See example.
#media (min-width: 768px) {
.navbar-inverse .navbar-nav li img {
display: none;
}
}
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.5/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
<link href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.5/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet" />
<nav class="navbar navbar-inverse navbar-fixed-top">
<div class="container-fluid">
<div class="navbar-header">
<button type="button" class="navbar-toggle" data-toggle="collapse" data-target="#myNavbar"> <span class="icon-bar"></span>
<span class="icon-bar"></span>
<span class="icon-bar"></span>
</button>
<a class="navbar-brand" id="logo" href="#">
<img src="images/avezlogo.png">
</a>
</div>
<div>
<div class="collapse navbar-collapse" id="myNavbar">
<ul class="nav navbar-nav navbar-right">
<li id="orange">
<a href="#idealize">
<img src="images/bulb.png"><span class="collapse"> idealize</span>
</a>
</li>
<li id="cyan">
<a href="#develop">
<img src="images/laptop.png"><span class="tittle"> develop</span>
</a>
</li>
<li id="purple">
<a href="#prototype">
<img src="images/printer.png"><span class="tittle"> prototype</span>
</a>
</li>
<li id="red" class="dropdown">
<a class="dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown" href="#about">
<img src="images/dots.png" id="dots"><span class="tittle"> about</span>
</a>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</nav>

Answer 2

That's how it should behave. Links should be seen in all viewport sizes. If you only want to see the links in the collapsable navbar and not in the not-collapsable navbar, you can do this:
#media (min-width: 768px) {
#myNavbar .navbar-right {
display: none;
}
But then you see in larger viewport sizes a blank navbar without a toggle icon on the right side. And that's not what you want, I think.
If you want a collapsable navbar all the time, the best solution would be to customize the Bootstrap CSS here:
Bootstrap customize grid
and set the #grid-float-breakpoint to a large width, e.g. 3000px. Download and compile and the CSS should do it.

Answer 3

the media query worked fine. Thanks a lot. I was also wondering. Why doesn't the dropdown menu in the first image close after clicking one of the links? I have to click the menu button again for it to close. How could I change this? Thanks again.