twitter bootstrap navbar fixed top overlapping sit

Question

I am using bootstrap on my site and am having issues with the navbar fixed top. When I am just using the regular navbar, everything is fine. However, when i try to switch it to navbar fixed top, all the other content on the site shifts up like the navbar isn't there and the navbar overlaps it. here's basically how i laid it out:

.navbar.navbar-fixed-top
  .navbar-inner
    .container
.container
  .row
    //yield content

i tried to copy bootstraps examples exactly but still having this issue only when using navbar fixed top. what am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

a much more handy solution for your reference, it works perfect in all of my projects:

change your first line from

.navbar.navbar-fixed-top

to

.navbar.navbar-default.navbar-static-top

Answer 2

@Ryan, you are right, hard-coding the height will make it work bad in case of custom navbars. This is the code I am using for BS 3.0.0 happily:

$(window).resize(function () { 
   $('body').css('padding-top', parseInt($('#main-navbar').css("height"))+10);
});

$(window).load(function () { 
   $('body').css('padding-top', parseInt($('#main-navbar').css("height"))+10);         
}); 

Answer 3

For handling wrapping lines in menu-bar, apply an id to the navbar, like this:

<div class="navbar navbar-default navbar-fixed-top" role="navigation" id="topnavbar">

and add this small script in the head after including the jquery, like this:

<script>
    $(document).ready(function(){
        $(document.body).css('padding-top', $('#topnavbar').height() + 10);
        $(window).resize(function(){
            $(document.body).css('padding-top', $('#topnavbar').height() + 10);
        });
    });
</script>

That way, the top-padding of the body gets automatically adjusted.

Answer 4

I would do this:

// add appropriate media query if required to target mobile nav only
.nav { overflow-y: hidden !important }

This should make sure the nav block doesn't stretch downpage and covers the page content.

Answer 5

for Bootstrap 3.+ , I'd use following CSS to fix navbar-fixed-top and the anchor jump overlapped issue based on https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/issues/1768

/* fix fixed-bar */
body { padding-top: 40px; }
@media screen and (max-width: 768px) {
  body { padding-top: 40px; }
}

/* fix fixed-bar jumping to in-page anchor issue */
*[id]:before { 
  display: block; 
  content: " "; 
  margin-top: -75px; 
  height: 75px; 
  visibility: hidden; 
}

Answer 6

The problem is with navbar-fixed-top, which will overlay your content unless specify body-padding. No solution provided here works in 100% cases. The JQuery solution blink/shift the page after the page is loaded, which looks weird.

The real solution for me is not to use navbar-fixed-top, but navbar-static-top.

.navbar { margin-bottom:0px;} //for jumtron support, see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23911242/gap-between-navbar-and-jumbotron

<nav class="navbar navbar-inverse navbar-static-top">
...
</nav>