Using Ruby on Rails and Boostrap 5.3 to create a site to host my projects and info. I have a header file containing all of my navbar code. After visiting any link from one of the dropdown options, the dropdown button no longer works.
However, when I click on one of the links inside of the navbar, but not found in the dropdown and change pages, everything still works fine (i.e. if I click on "About Me" and go to that page it works but not if I open the dropdown and go to "Yelp Review Manager" or any of the other pages listed as options). Reloading the page also makes the dropdown work again.
Code:
<nav class="navbar navbar-expand-lg navbar-dark bg-dark">
<div class="container-fluid">
<a class="navbar-brand">Title</a>
<button class="navbar-toggler" type="button" data-bs-toggle="collapse" data-bs-target="#navbarNavDropdown" aria-controls="navbarNavDropdown" aria-expanded="false" aria-label="Toggle navigation">
<span class="navbar-toggler-icon"></span>
</button>
<div class="collapse navbar-collapse" id="navbarNavDropdown">
<ul class="navbar-nav">
<li class="nav-item">
<%= link_to "Home", root_path, class:"nav-link"%>
</li>
<li class="nav-item">
<%= link_to "About Me", home_about_path, class:"nav-link" %>
</li>
<li class="nav-item dropdown">
<a class="nav-link dropdown-toggle" href="#" role="button" data-bs-toggle="dropdown" aria-expanded="false">
Projects
</a>
<ul class="dropdown-menu">
<%= link_to "Living Atlas", projects_livingatlas_path, class:"dropdown-item" %>
<%= link_to "Spreadsheet", projects_spreadsheet_path, class:"dropdown-item" %>
<%= link_to "Yelp Review Manager", projects_yelp_path, class:"dropdown-item" %>
<%= link_to "Ext2 File System", projects_ext2_path, class:"dropdown-item" %>
<%= link_to "Personal Website", projects_website_path, class:"dropdown-item" %>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</nav>
Needed to delete <%= stylesheet_link_tag 'bootstrap', media: 'all' %>
and <%= javascript_importmap_tags 'application', 'data-turbo-track': 'reload' %>
inside of app/views/layouts/application.html.erb
File after changes:
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<title>Flavio Projects</title>
<link href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/[email protected]/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet" crossorigin="anonymous">
<%= csrf_meta_tags %>
<%= csp_meta_tag %>
<%# This is where the two lines causing the issues were found %>
</head>
<body>
<%= render 'shared/header' %>
<div class="container">
<br/>
<%= yield %>
</div>
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/[email protected]/dist/js/bootstrap.bundle.min.js"></script>
</body>
</html>