Was wondering if anyone knew how to change the navbar color in bootstrap v2.0.4
I tried this solution it does not seem to work: navbar color in Twitter Bootstrap
The color of the navbar come from the .navbar-inner lines 3582 to 3589 in bootstrap.css (for the version 2.0.4)
The css properties are applied in a specific order
Example of background-color override in boostrap.css with Chrome:
background-color:#ffffff;
has been replaced with background-color:#eab92d
directly into boostrap.css (it's not recommended but it's just to illustrate the point).
background-color: #EAB92D
is applied first
-moz-linear-gradient
and -ms-linear-gradient
are ignored
-webkit-gradient
cover background: #EAB92D
(back to the default gradient)
-webkit-linear-gradient
overrides -webkit-gradient
-o-linear-gradient
and linear-gradient
are ignored
Change the color of .navbar-inner from colorzilla
You can easily create a cross browser gradient with colorzilla
Create a <style>
tag in <head>
after bootstrap.css is called.
Then copy the css generated by colorzilla in .navbar-inner {}
inside the <style>
tag.
.navbar-inner {
background: #eab92d; /* Old browsers */
/* IE9 SVG, needs conditional override of 'filter' to 'none' */
background: url(data:image/svg+xml;base64,PD94bWwgdmVyc2lvbj0iMS4wIiA/Pgo8c3ZnIHhtbG5zPSJodHRwOi8vd3d3LnczLm9yZy8yMDAwL3N2ZyIgd2lkdGg9IjEwMCUiIGhlaWdodD0iMTAwJSIgdmlld0JveD0iMCAwIDEgMSIgcHJlc2VydmVBc3BlY3RSYXRpbz0ibm9uZSI+CiAgPGxpbmVhckdyYWRpZW50IGlkPSJncmFkLXVjZ2ctZ2VuZXJhdGVkIiBncmFkaWVudFVuaXRzPSJ1c2VyU3BhY2VPblVzZSIgeDE9IjAlIiB5MT0iMCUiIHgyPSIwJSIgeTI9IjEwMCUiPgogICAgPHN0b3Agb2Zmc2V0PSIwJSIgc3RvcC1jb2xvcj0iI2VhYjkyZCIgc3RvcC1vcGFjaXR5PSIxIi8+CiAgICA8c3RvcCBvZmZzZXQ9IjEwMCUiIHN0b3AtY29sb3I9IiNjNzk4MTAiIHN0b3Atb3BhY2l0eT0iMSIvPgogIDwvbGluZWFyR3JhZGllbnQ+CiAgPHJlY3QgeD0iMCIgeT0iMCIgd2lkdGg9IjEiIGhlaWdodD0iMSIgZmlsbD0idXJsKCNncmFkLXVjZ2ctZ2VuZXJhdGVkKSIgLz4KPC9zdmc+);
background: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #eab92d 0%, #c79810 100%); /* FF3.6+ */
background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, color-stop(0%,#eab92d), color-stop(100%,#c79810)); /* Chrome,Safari4+ */
background: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, #eab92d 0%,#c79810 100%); /* Chrome10+,Safari5.1+ */
background: -o-linear-gradient(top, #eab92d 0%,#c79810 100%); /* Opera 11.10+ */
background: -ms-linear-gradient(top, #eab92d 0%,#c79810 100%); /* IE10+ */
background: linear-gradient(to bottom, #eab92d 0%,#c79810 100%); /* W3C */
filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient( startColorstr='#eab92d', endColorstr='#c79810',GradientType=0 ); /* IE6-8 */
}
The css generated by colorzilla overrides all the css properties from boostrap.css as you can see below
Changing '.navbar-inner' is not enough few other bits needs to be changed.
.navbar .btn-navbar
(the button to open the menu when width<768px) share the same properties as .navbar-inner
.navbar-inner, .navbar .btn-navbar {
background: #eab92d; /* Old browsers */
/* IE9 SVG, needs conditional override of 'filter' to 'none' */
background: url(data:image/svg+xml;base64,PD94bWwgdmVyc2lvbj0iMS4wIiA/Pgo8c3ZnIHhtbG5zPSJodHRwOi8vd3d3LnczLm9yZy8yMDAwL3N2ZyIgd2lkdGg9IjEwMCUiIGhlaWdodD0iMTAwJSIgdmlld0JveD0iMCAwIDEgMSIgcHJlc2VydmVBc3BlY3RSYXRpbz0ibm9uZSI+CiAgPGxpbmVhckdyYWRpZW50IGlkPSJncmFkLXVjZ2ctZ2VuZXJhdGVkIiBncmFkaWVudFVuaXRzPSJ1c2VyU3BhY2VPblVzZSIgeDE9IjAlIiB5MT0iMCUiIHgyPSIwJSIgeTI9IjEwMCUiPgogICAgPHN0b3Agb2Zmc2V0PSIwJSIgc3RvcC1jb2xvcj0iI2VhYjkyZCIgc3RvcC1vcGFjaXR5PSIxIi8+CiAgICA8c3RvcCBvZmZzZXQ9IjEwMCUiIHN0b3AtY29sb3I9IiNjNzk4MTAiIHN0b3Atb3BhY2l0eT0iMSIvPgogIDwvbGluZWFyR3JhZGllbnQ+CiAgPHJlY3QgeD0iMCIgeT0iMCIgd2lkdGg9IjEiIGhlaWdodD0iMSIgZmlsbD0idXJsKCNncmFkLXVjZ2ctZ2VuZXJhdGVkKSIgLz4KPC9zdmc+);
background: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #eab92d 0%, #c79810 100%); /* FF3.6+ */
background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, color-stop(0%,#eab92d), color-stop(100%,#c79810)); /* Chrome,Safari4+ */
background: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, #eab92d 0%,#c79810 100%); /* Chrome10+,Safari5.1+ */
background: -o-linear-gradient(top, #eab92d 0%,#c79810 100%); /* Opera 11.10+ */
background: -ms-linear-gradient(top, #eab92d 0%,#c79810 100%); /* IE10+ */
background: linear-gradient(to bottom, #eab92d 0%,#c79810 100%); /* W3C */
filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient( startColorstr='#eab92d', endColorstr='#c79810',GradientType=0 ); /* IE6-8 */
}
.divider-vertical
(the vertical separator) uses the same colors used in the gradient
.navbar .divider-vertical {
background-color: #c79810;
border-right: 1px solid #eab92d;
}
.active
(the highlight on the active page) is corresponding to the dark color of the gradient
.navbar .nav .active > a, .navbar .nav .active > a:hover {
background-color: #c79810;
}
the color of the link on the menu needs to be changed as well, in this case 75% from the fair color of the gradient to white.
.navbar .nav > li > a {
color: #f9ed9d;
}
And finally the color of the .brand
, in this case 50% from the fair color of the gradient to white.
.navbar-fixed-top .brand {
color: #634c08;color: #f4dc87;
}
The :hover color of links has not been changed bu can be with:
.navbar .nav > li > a:hover {color:white;}
Same for the color of the active link
.navbar .nav .active > a, .navbar .nav .active > a:hover {color:white;}
One simple method (with the same result that got baptme) : I use it in rails for conditional layout, (with gem bootstrap-sass).
in your scss file, before importing bootstrap, define some variables:
$navbarBackground: #c79810 ;
$navbarBackgroundHighlight: #eab92d ;
$navbarText: #f9ed9d ;
$navbarLinkColor: #f9ed9d ;
$navbarSearchPlaceholderColor: #EEC844 ;
@import 'bootstrap' ;
And got it :)
If you only want to use the previous version of Bootsrap's dark look for navbars, you can add the .navbar-inverse class to the navbar element.
<div class="navbar navbar-inverse">
Take a look using firebug. You can click on the exact navbar in question and see exactly which css styles apply to it.
You can also use the Twitter Bootstrap theme generator at http://stylebootstrap.info/ and easily customized your themes.
Extending @Traz super concise answer for LESS for people using twitter-bootstrap-rails gem
@navbarBackground: #c79810 ;
@navbarBackgroundHighlight: #eab92d ;
@navbarText: #f9ed9d ;
@navbarLinkColor: #f9ed9d ;
@navbarSearchPlaceholderColor: #EEC844 ;