Bootstrap 3 collapsed menu doesn’t close on click

Just to share this from solutions on GitHub, this was the popular answer:

https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/issues/9013#issuecomment-39698247

$(document).on('click','.navbar-collapse.in',function(e) {
    if( $(e.target).is('a') ) {
        $(this).collapse('hide');
    }
});

This is wired to the document, so you don’t have to do it on ready() (you can dynamically append links to your menu and it will still work), and it only gets called if the menu is already expanded. Some people have reported weird flashing where the menu opens and then immediately closes with other code that did not verify that the menu had the “in” class.

[UPDATE 2014-11-04] apparently when using sub-menus, the above can cause problems, so the above got modified to:

$(document).on('click','.navbar-collapse.in',function(e) {
    if( $(e.target).is('a:not(".dropdown-toggle")') ) {
        $(this).collapse('hide');
    }
});