Twitter bootstrap top menu is not displaying as strip - html

Question

I just started using twitter bootstrap. Trying each example in their site. However I couldn't succeed in most cases. For instance, the top navigation bar. I just copied into a html file. Changed some reference paths for css, js. When browsed in IE8/Chrome, it shows a weird result.
=== source copied from: http://getbootstrap.com/examples/navbar-fixed-top/
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
<meta name="description" content="">
<meta name="author" content="">
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.png">
<title>Fixed Top Navbar Example for Bootstrap</title>
<!-- Bootstrap core CSS -->
<link href="bootstrap/css/bootstrap.css" rel="stylesheet" />
<!-- Custom styles for this template -->
<link href="Scripts/navbar-fixed-top.css" rel="stylesheet" />
<!-- Just for debugging purposes. Don't actually copy this line! -->
<!--[if lt IE 9]><script src="../../docs-assets/js/ie8-responsive-file-warning.js"></script><![endif]-->
<!-- HTML5 shim and Respond.js IE8 support of HTML5 elements and media queries -->
<!--[if lt IE 9]>
<script src="https://oss.maxcdn.com/libs/html5shiv/3.7.0/html5shiv.js"></script>
<script src="https://oss.maxcdn.com/libs/respond.js/1.3.0/respond.min.js"></script>
<![endif]-->
<!-- Fixed navbar -->
<div class="navbar navbar-default navbar-fixed-top" role="navigation">
<div class="container">
<div class="navbar-header">
<button type="button" class="navbar-toggle" data-toggle="collapse" data-target=".navbar-collapse">
<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" href="#">Project name</a>
</div>
<div class="navbar-collapse collapse">
<ul class="nav navbar-nav">
<li class="active">Home</li>
<li>About</li>
<li>Contact</li>
<li class="dropdown">
Dropdown <b class="caret"></b>
<ul class="dropdown-menu">
<li>Action</li>
<li>Another action</li>
<li>Something else here</li>
<li class="divider"></li>
<li class="dropdown-header">Nav header</li>
<li>Separated link</li>
<li>One more separated link</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<ul class="nav navbar-nav navbar-right">
<li>Default</li>
<li>Static top</li>
<li class="active">Fixed top</li>
</ul>
</div><!--/.nav-collapse -->
</div>
</div>
<div class="container">
<!-- Main component for a primary marketing message or call to action -->
<div class="jumbotron">
<h1>Navbar example</h1>
<p>This example is a quick exercise to illustrate how the default, static and fixed to top navbar work. It includes the responsive CSS and HTML, so it also adapts to your viewport and device.</p>
<p>To see the difference between static and fixed top navbars, just scroll.</p>
<p>
<a class="btn btn-lg btn-primary" href="../../components/#navbar" role="button">View navbar docs »</a>
</p>
</div>
</div> <!-- /container -->
<!-- Bootstrap core JavaScript
================================================== -->
<!-- Placed at the end of the document so the pages load faster -->
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.10.2.min.js"></script>
<link href="bootstrap/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet" />
===
Note: There is a head closing tag body open tag that I couldn't insert
(here) right before fixed nav bar
the outcome on my browser:
Am I missing anything?

Answer 1

The issue is not in the HTML
Check this fiddle
Copy the js and css from this example and it will work
or include this 2 libs
//netdna.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.0.2/css/bootstrap.min.css
//netdna.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.0.2/js/bootstrap.min.js