Bootstrap 3 Hide Dropdown Menu on Menu Item Click

If you wanted to do this without JavaScript you could simply add the data-target and data-toggle to each list item, like so:

<li data-toggle="collapse" data-target=".nav-collapse"><a href="#option1">Option 1</a></li>
<li data-toggle="collapse" data-target=".nav-collapse"><a href="#option2">Option 2</a></li>
<li data-toggle="collapse" data-target=".nav-collapse"><a href="#option3">Option 3</a></li>

For the navbar, this really only works in the mobile view mode when there is a toggle button. Strange things happen when the navbar is exposed (the toggle button isn't showing).

Change this:

$(document).ready(function () {
    $("#navbar li a").click(function(event) {
        // check if window is small enough so dropdown is created
        $("#navbar-toggle").is(":visible")
            $("#nav-collapse").toggle();
    });
  });

to this:

$(document).ready(function () {
    $("#navbar li a").click(function(event) {
        // check if window is small enough so dropdown is created
    $("#nav-collapse").removeClass("in").addClass("collapse");
    });
});

See http://jsfiddle.net/fw7vh/4/

I don't know why clicking/tapping on a menu item in a menu dropdown in a collapsed navbar doesn't automatically toggle the menu in Bootstrap. There may be a more graceful way to do this, but, here's how I fixed it (using Bootstrap 3.0.3):

<li class="visible-xs">
  <a href="#" data-toggle="collapse" data-target=".navbar-collapse">Link</a>
</li>
<li class="hidden-xs">
  <a href="#">Link</a>
</li>

Basically, there are two versions of the link, one that appears whenever the menu toggle is shown (at browser widths <768px) that will toggle the navbar menu, and one that doesn't collapse it (browser widths >768px). If you don't add that second type, it will show a strange phantom animated horizontal scroll bar when trying to toggle the menu when it is not there.

I am new to Bootstrap but with a small changed to the above code it works beautifully now. Remember that when you click on the logo the drop-down menu should close too, that is why I have added navbar-header to it!

jQuery(document).ready(function () {
        jQuery(".nav a, .navbar-header a").click(function(event) {
                // check if window is small enough so dropdown is created
               jQuery(".navbar-collapse").removeClass("in").addClass("collapse");
        });
});