The Bootstrap 4 navbar appears slim on medium and smaller sized screens

Currently, I am using Bootstrap 4 in combination with Rails 5 to create a collapsing navbar. The functionality of the collapse is working properly, but the size of the collapsed navbar seems to be unusually small. You can see the issue in this screenshot: https://i.sstatic.net/HqHHR.png

Comparing my navbar to the example provided on the Bootstrap website (link: https://i.sstatic.net/JGYnR.png), I notice that not only the navbar but also the text size in my project appears smaller. I have not applied any specific CSS for sizing to the navbar, so I am perplexed as to why it is displaying much smaller than the default size.

_navigationbar.html.erb file code:

<nav class="navbar navbar-fixed-top navbar-dark bg-inverse">
    <div id="myNavbar">
        <button class="navbar-toggler hidden-lg-up" type="button" data-toggle="collapse" data-target="#navbarResponsive" aria-controls="navbarResponsive" aria-expanded="false" aria-label="Toggle navigation"></button>
        <div class="collapse navbar-toggleable-md" id="navbarResponsive">
            <ul class="nav nav-pills navbar-nav" id="nav-colors">
                <li class="nav-item"><a class="nav-link" href="#home">Home</a></li>
                <li class="nav-item"><a class="nav-link" href="#about">About</a></li>
                <li class="nav-item"><a class="nav-link" href="#features">Features</a></li>
                <li class="nav-item"><a class="nav-link" href="#contact">Contact Us</a></li>
            </ul>
        </div>
    </div>
</nav>

application.html.erb code:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>League Builders</title>
    <%= csrf_meta_tags %>

    <%= stylesheet_link_tag    'application', media: 'all', 'data-turbolinks-track': 'reload' %>
    <%= javascript_include_tag 'application', 'data-turbolinks-track': 'reload' %>
</head>

<body>
    <%= render 'layouts/navigationbar' %>
    <div class="container-fluid">
        <%= yield %>
    </div>
</body>
</html>

If anyone has insights or solutions to this sizing issue, I would greatly appreciate the help. Thank you!

Answer №1

Based on the image provided, it appears that the display on your mobile device is showing everything very small, not just the bootstrap navigation. This issue is often caused by a missing meta viewport tag in your code, resulting in content scaling incorrectly on smaller screens. To fix this, you can try adding the following code snippet to the <head> section of your website.

<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">

Answer №2

Credit goes to Michael Coker for providing a simple solution to this issue. By inserting the following line into the head section of application.html.erb:

<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">

The problem was easily resolved without any further complications.

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