Twitter Bootstrap: Text in navbar

According to the twitter bootstrap documentation, I should be able to "Wrap strings of text in a <p> tag for proper leading and color." When I do this, at any level under navbar it simply doesn't inherit any of the navbar classes. Wrapping the string in <a> tags renders it but it shouldn't be an anchor.

The string I'm trying to render is "Logged in as ... ".

You have to include a class along with your p tag inside of your navbar, like so:

<p class="navbar-text">Logged in as</p> 

This was fixed in issue 2799.

I had to add <span class="navbar-text"> for the format to level with the anchor tags.

None of these answers or comments worked for me (latest one was 6+ years old), but what worked for me was the following:

1. I had to use the <span> tag, not <p>
2. I had to include the "nav-item" class on my list element itself

My final working code looks like this:

<li class="nav-item"><span class="navbar-text"><h5>{{first_name}}</h5></span></li>

Take my word for it, but the word "Sally" below does not change to hyperlink when hovered.