Troubleshooting problem with Bootstrap navbar-form width specifically in Chrome browser

My current project involves using Bootstrap 3.0.0.

While implementing the Default Navbar example with some custom CSS, I ran into an issue where the search form text box was extending to full width on Chrome. This caused my navbar to break into three lines. Surprisingly, everything was working perfectly fine on Firefox and IE.

The problem seems to arise from a discrepancy in calculated width between browsers - 236px in Firefox compared to 1110px in Chrome. Screenshots from both browsers are included below for reference, along with the code snippet available at JSFiddle. Unfortunately, the output cannot be seen there, but it serves as a helpful reference point.

My question is: Is this a known bug specific to Chrome, or did I make a mistake somewhere in my customization? If so, could someone kindly help me identify where I might have gone wrong?

Custom CSS Styles Used:

@import url(http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Spirax|Oleo+Script+Swash+Caps&text=FlipKhan);
body{background: url("../images/bg.gif") scroll center top #C0C0C0;}
.navbar-top {margin-bottom: 0; min-height: 35px; height:50px;}
.navbar-top div.container{height:45px;}
.navbar-top div.container div.navbar-header{height:45px;}
.navbar-top a.navbar-brand {padding: 10px;}
.navbar-top div.container div.collapse{height:45px;}
.navbar-top .navbar-brand {font-family: 'Oleo Script Swash Caps', cursive; font-size: 35px; color: #FFF;}
.navbar-inverse {
  background: none !important; 
  border: 0 !important;
  box-shadow: none !important;
  -webkit-box-shadow: none !important;
}
.navbar-inverse .nav .active > a {
  background: 0 !important; 
  color: #333 !important;
  box-shadow: none !important;
  -webkit-box-shadow: none !important;
}
.navbar-inverse .nav > li > a {
  color: #333 !important;
  text-shadow: none !important;
}
.navbar-inverse .nav > li > a:hover {
  color: #333 !important;
}

HTML Snippet (Specifically for the navbar):

<header>
  <nav class="navbar navbar-top navbar-default navbar-inverse" role="navigation">
    ...
    <!-- Code snippet continues here -->
    ...
  </nav>
</header>

EDIT:

Applying the following line of CSS code seemed to solve the Chrome issue:

.navbar-search{max-width: 250px;}

However, I see this more as a temporary fix rather than a permanent solution. Could there be a better way to address this problem without resorting to quick hacks?

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Answer №1

It might be worth testing this in various other browsers as well. It seems like Chrome displays it correctly, but Firefox shows a different rendering for the input field.

The issue can be simplified to:

<div style="float:left;">
<div class="input-group">
              <input type="text" class="form-control input-sm">
              <span class="input-group-btn">
              <button class="btn btn-info btn-sm" type="submit"><span class="glyphicon glyphicon-search"></span></button>
              </span>
</div>
</div>

Note that using "float left" is necessary to highlight the differences (the float left styling may have come from the navbar-left class).

The code above can be compared to:

<div style="float:left;">
<div style="height:10px;background-color:red;" style="width:100%;">
<span style="display:table-cell;position:relative;width:1%;">txt</span>
</div>
</div>

This code also displays differently in Chrome and Firefox without Bootstrap's CSS. It's uncertain whether the issue lies with the Bootstrap CSS or if one of the browsers is at fault. More information can be found here: https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/issues/10645

Answer №2

I encountered a similar issue while using Chrome, but managed to solve it by adding the CSS property display:table to the form element.

A more optimal solution would be to include the following CSS:

@media (min-width: 767px) {
  .navbar-form.navbar-left{
    display:table;
  }
}

In addition, I eliminated your <div class="col-lg-12"> (since having it was causing issues):

<form class="navbar-form navbar-left navbar-search" role="search">        
        <div class="input-group">
          <input type="text" class="form-control input-sm">
          <span class="input-group-btn">
            <button class="btn btn-info btn-sm" type="submit"><span class="glyphicon glyphicon-search"/></button>
          </span>
        </div><!-- /input-group -->
</form>

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