How to change navbar/container width? Bootstrap 3

Question

The default width for my navbar is too wide 1170px. I would like to reduce it down to 940px - but I want to keep the responsiveness.

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Answer 1

Proper way to do it is to change the width on the online customizer here:

http://getbootstrap.com/customize/

download the recompiled source, overwrite the existing bootstrap dist dir, and reload (mind the browser cache!!!)

All your changes will be retained in the .json configuration file

To apply again the all the changes just upload the json file and you are ready to go