twitter bootstrap navbar fixed top overlapping site
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?
Solution 1:
Your answer is right in the docs:
Body padding required
The fixed navbar will overlay your other content, unless you add
paddingto the top of the<body>. Try out your own values or use our snippet below. Tip: By default, the navbar is 50px high.body { padding-top: 70px; }Make sure to include this after the core Bootstrap CSS.
and in the Bootstrap 4 docs...
Fixed navbars use position: fixed, meaning they’re pulled from the normal flow of the DOM and may require custom CSS (e.g., padding-top on the ) to prevent overlap with other elements.
Solution 2:
As others have stated adding a padding-top to body works great. But when you make the screen narrower (to cell phone widths) there is a gap between the navbar and the body. Also, a crowded navbar can wrap to a multi-line bar, overwriting some of the content again.
This solved these kinds of issues for me
body { padding-top: 40px; }
@media screen and (max-width: 768px) {
body { padding-top: 0px; }
}
This makes a 40px padding by default and 0px when under 768px width (which according to bootstrap's docs is the cell phone layout cutoff where the gap would be created)
Solution 3:
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
Solution 4:
Just change fixed-top with sticky-top. this way you won't have to calculate the padding.
And it works!!