How to get a responsive button in bootstrap 3

I am using bootstrap 3 and I have the following html:

<div class="col-sm-2" >
    <a id="new-board-btn" class="btn btn-success" >Create New Board</a>
</div>

On a small screen, the text "Create New Board" is too long to fit on the button. I would like the text to wrap on to another line and the height of the button to increase to fit the text. Any tips on how to do this?

Solution 1:

In Bootstrap, the .btn class has a white-space: nowrap; property, making it so that the button text won't wrap. So, after setting that to normal, and giving the button a width, the text should wrap to the next line if the text would exceed the set width.

#new-board-btn {
    white-space: normal;
}

http://jsfiddle.net/ADewB/

Solution 2:

I know this already has a marked answer, but I feel I have an improvement to it.

The marked answer is a bit misleading. He set a width to the button, which is not necessary, and set widths are not "responsive". To his defense, he mentions in a comment below it, that the width is not necessary and just an example.

One thing not mentioned here, is that the words may break in the middle of a word and look messed up.

My solution, forces the break to happen between words, a nice word wrap.

.btn-responsive {
    white-space: normal !important;
    word-wrap: break-word;
}

<a href="#" class="btn btn-primary btn-responsive">Click Here</a>