I would like to have a bootstrap navbar where some nav items are left-justified, some are right justified, and some are centered in the remaining space between them.
You just needed a couple of styles to get the behaviour that I think you wanted. It looks like you were going the display:inline-block
route to center the elements, so I'll just continue along that approach. To your existing styles, add/modify definitions so that these styles are included:
.nav.nav-center {
margin:0;
float:none;
}
.navbar-inner{
text-align:center;
}
With that, the two options should move to the exact center of your navigation bar. Here's a JSFiddle example to show you what this would look like. I hope this is what you were looking for! If not, let me know and I'll be happy to help further.