Bootstrap 4 - prevent links from breaking lines on navbar - css

Question

When I have too many links in the navbar, when I start to zoom in, then the links start to break lines. I want them to stay the same line before they collapse.
In the snippet below(view full size), There are 6 links, and when you zoom in, there is a certain zoom where the links break lines (before the navbar collapses)
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.1.0/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
<link href="https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.1.0/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet"/>
<nav class="navbar navbar-expand-lg navbar-light fixed-top">
<div class="container">
<a class="navbar-brand mx-auto" href="#">
Logo
</a>
<button class="navbar-toggler" type="button" data-toggle="collapse" data-target="#navbarTogglerDemo02" aria-controls="navbarTogglerDemo02" aria-expanded="false" aria-label="Toggle navigation">
<span class="navbar-toggler-icon"></span>
</button>
<div class="collapse navbar-collapse text-right" id="navbarTogglerDemo02">
<ul class="navbar-nav ml-auto mt-2 mt-lg-0">
<li class="nav-item main-nav">
<a class="nav-link" href="#">Navbar Link Number 1</a>
</li>
<li class="nav-item">
<a class="nav-link" href="#">Navbar Link Number 2</a>
</li>
<li class="nav-item">
<a class="nav-link" href="#">Navbar Link Number 3</a>
</li>
<li class="nav-item">
<a class="nav-link" href="#">Navbar Link Number 4</a>
</li>
<li class="nav-item">
<a class="nav-link" href="#">Navbar Link Number 5</a>
</li>
<li class="nav-item">
<a class="nav-link" href="#">Navbar Link Number 6</a>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</nav>

Answer 1

Use the text-nowrap utility class on the links...
https://www.codeply.com/go/tKwvJnDJ42
<nav class="navbar navbar-expand-lg navbar-light fixed-top">
<div class="container">
<a class="navbar-brand mx-auto" href="#">
Logo
</a>
<button class="navbar-toggler" type="button" data-toggle="collapse" data-target="#navbarTogglerDemo02" aria-controls="navbarTogglerDemo02" aria-expanded="false" aria-label="Toggle navigation">
<span class="navbar-toggler-icon"></span>
</button>
<div class="collapse navbar-collapse text-right" id="navbarTogglerDemo02">
<ul class="navbar-nav ml-auto mt-2 mt-lg-0">
<li class="nav-item main-nav">
<a class="nav-link text-nowrap" href="#">Navbar Link Number 1</a>
</li>
<li class="nav-item">
<a class="nav-link text-nowrap" href="#">Navbar Link Number 2</a>
</li>
<li class="nav-item">
<a class="nav-link text-nowrap" href="#">Navbar Link Number 3</a>
</li>
<li class="nav-item">
<a class="nav-link text-nowrap" href="#">Navbar Link Number 4</a>
</li>
<li class="nav-item">
<a class="nav-link text-nowrap" href="#">Navbar Link Number 5</a>
</li>
<li class="nav-item">
<a class="nav-link text-nowrap" href="#">Navbar Link Number 6</a>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</nav>

Answer 2

For anyone coming from Google, don't use as mentioned in another solution, that makes content unmanageable and uses markup to dictate presentation.
You can mimic what Bootstrap does with an easy class such as;
.text-nowrap {
white-space: nowrap !important;
}
As its a utility class, it is ok to use !important.
Hope that helps

Answer 3

You could hide overflown links if the users who zoom in are few, better than wrapping menu to 2 lines:
<style>
#media (min-width: 1201px) {
.navbar-nav {
overflow: hidden !important;
max-height: 50px;
}
}
</style>