Thanks for the reply. I think I might get it, though playing 'spot the 
difference' between two sets of source code is making my eyes water. Are 
you saying that the code:

<a class="btn btn-navbar" data-toggle="collapse" 
data-target=".nav-collapse"> 
<span class="icon-bar"></span> 
<span class="icon-bar"></span> 
<span class="icon-bar"></span> 
</a> 

is what generates the tiny up caret in the top left of the dropdown? I've 
deleted this code (lines 6-10) in the Bootstrap demo source and it makes no 
difference at all to the document that I can see - the top navbar remains 
the same, and the up caret appears in the dropdown. To be honest, I'm 
damned if I can see what the empty spans are for. 

Or is there some code in the dropdown I'm missing? 

My brain hurts :(

Fred

On Tuesday, November 27, 2012 10:30:09 PM UTC, Andras Kende wrote:
>
> I think this might help: 
>
> http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/examples/hero.html - ( view source ) 
>
> <a class="btn btn-navbar" data-toggle="collapse" 
> data-target=".nav-collapse"> 
> <span class="icon-bar"></span> 
> <span class="icon-bar"></span> 
> <span class="icon-bar"></span> 
> </a> 
>
> Andras Kende 
> http://www.kende.com 
>
> On Nov 27, 2012, at 2:19 PM, Fred Riley <[email protected] <javascript:>> 
> wrote: 
>
> > Hi 
> > 
> > This is my first email to this group, so please be gentle :o) 
> > 
> > I've a very minor question, regarding the caret that should appear in 
> the top left of a dropped-down menu, for instance in the dropdown 
> documentation. When a dropdown link is clicked, the menu below has a little 
> 'notch' in the top left and rounded corners on the top border, which I've 
> tried and failed to replicate in this test document. I've carefully 
> scrutinised HTML source code in the documentation example, and the 
> bootstrap.css, but can't find out what's generating this effect. Could 
> someone please point me to the source? 
> > 
> > This is really unimportant, positively trivial, as I'm not bothered 
> about the effect. I am, though, trying to understand the bootstrap syntax 
> down to the last detail so that I have the knowledge to build pages from 
> scratch (I've used Jetstrap for initial prototyping and code generation). 
> I've got to say that Bootstrap is very impressive, the more so after I read 
> an article on A List Apart about its genesis. Thanks to the whole 
> development team that made it possible, and for writing such clear 
> documentation :) 
> > 
> > Fred 
>
>

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