Bootstrap Nav Menu Dropdown on hover


By default when you use the Navbar as provided by Bootstrap example under Components Section the dropdown list is displayed only when you click on it. But if you wish to change this to happen when you hover over the dropdown option you need to just add few lines of code in your CSS block.

Css snippetLanguage : Css
.dropdown:hover .dropdown-menu {
   display: block;
}
Example Code :
<nav class="navbar navbar-default">

    <div class="navbar-header">
      <button type="button" class="navbar-toggle collapsed" data-toggle="collapse" data-target="#bs-example-navbar-collapse-1">
        <span class="sr-only">Code2care : Lines of Code for Change</span>
        <span class="icon-bar"></span>
        <span class="icon-bar"></span>
        <span class="icon-bar"></span>
      </button>
        <a class="navbar-brand" href="http://code2care.org">Code2care</a>
    </div>


    <div class="collapse navbar-collapse" id="bs-example-navbar-collapse-1">
      <ul class="nav navbar-nav">
        <li class="active"><a href="#">Link <span class="sr-only">(current)</span></a></li>
          <li><a href="http://code2care.org/topic/android/page-1/">Android</a></li>
        <li class="dropdown">
          <a href="http://code2care.org/topic/bootstrap/page-1/" class="dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown" role="button" aria-expanded="false">Bootstrap<span class="caret"></span></a>
          <ul class="dropdown-menu" role="menu">
            <li><a href="#">Example 1</a></li>
            <li><a href="#">Example 2</a></li>
            <li><a href="#">Example 3</a></li>
            <li class="divider"></li>
            <li><a href="#">Example 4</a></li>
            <li class="divider"></li>
            <li><a href="#">One more separated link</a></li>
          </ul>
        </li>
      </ul>
      <form class="navbar-form navbar-left" role="search">
    
      </form>
      <ul class="nav navbar-nav navbar-right">
        <li><a href="#">Link</a></li>
        <li class="dropdown">
          <a href="#" class="dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown" role="button" aria-expanded="false">Dropdown <span class="caret"></span></a>
          <ul class="dropdown-menu" role="menu">
            <li><a href="#">Option 1</a></li>
            <li><a href="#">Option 2</a></li>
            <li><a href="#">Option 3</a></li>
            <li class="divider"></li>
            <li><a href="#">Option 4</a></li>
          </ul>
        </li>
      </ul>
    </div>
  </div>
</nav>

<h2 style="padding:30px">The Navbar dropdown options will be displayed on hover instead on being clicked as default. Read the post : <a href="http://code2care.org/2015/bootstrap-nav-menu-dropdown-on-hover">Link</a></h2>


















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