How to Bootstrap navbar static to fixed on scroll?

If I'm not wrong, what you're trying to achieve is called Sticky navbar.

With a few lines of jQuery and the scroll event is pretty easy to achieve:

$(document).ready(function() {

    var menu = $('.menu');
    var content = $('.content');
    var origOffsetY = menu.offset().top;

    function scroll() {
        if ($(window).scrollTop() >= origOffsetY) {
            menu.addClass('sticky');
            content.addClass('menu-padding');
        } else {
            menu.removeClass('sticky');
            content.removeClass('menu-padding');
        }
    }

    $(document).scroll();

});

I've done a quick working sample for you, hope it helps: http://jsfiddle.net/yeco/4EcFf/

To make it work with Bootstrap you only need to add or remove "navbar-fixed-top" instead of the "sticky" class in the jsfiddle .

Use the affix component included with Bootstrap. Start with a 'navbar-static-top' and this will change it to fixed when the height of your header (content above the navbar) is reached...

$('#nav').affix({
      offset: {
        top: $('header').height()
      }
}); 

http://bootply.com/107973

I am note sure, what you are expecting. Have a look at this fiddle, this might help you.

http://jsfiddle.net/JK52L/8/

You HTML should have the class navbar-fixed-top or navbar-fixed-bottom.

HTML

<nav class="navbar navbar-default navbar-fixed-top" role="navigation">
  <!-- Brand and toggle get grouped for better mobile display -->
  <div class="navbar-header">
    <button type="button" class="navbar-toggle" data-toggle="collapse" data-target="#bs-example-navbar-collapse-1">
      <span class="sr-only">Toggle navigation</span>
      <span class="icon-bar"></span>
      <span class="icon-bar"></span>
      <span class="icon-bar"></span>
    </button>
    <a class="navbar-brand" href="#">Brand</a>
  </div>

  <!-- Collect the nav links, forms, and other content for toggling -->
  <div class="collapse navbar-collapse" id="bs-example-navbar-collapse-1">
    <ul class="nav navbar-nav">
      <li class="active"><a href="#">Link 1</a></li>
      <li><a href="#">Link 2</a></li>
    </ul>
  </div><!-- /.navbar-collapse -->
</nav>

JS

$(document).scroll(function(e){
    var scrollTop = $(document).scrollTop();
    if(scrollTop > 0){
        console.log(scrollTop);
        $('.navbar').removeClass('navbar-static-top').addClass('navbar-fixed-top');
    } else {
        $('.navbar').removeClass('navbar-fixed-top').addClass('navbar-static-top');
    }
});

Here's a solution using Bootstrap's affix plugin:

HTML:

<header class="container-fluid">
    ...
</header>
<nav class="navbar navbar-default navbar-static-top" role="navigation">
    ...
</nav>

Javascript:

$('nav').affix({
      offset: {
        top: $('header').height()
      }
});

Set padding-top to your body equal to that of your nav's height so that the content overlayed by the fixed navbar is visible.

$('nav').on('affix.bs.affix', function (){
     $('body').css('margin-top', $('nav').height());
});

$('nav').on('affix-top.bs.affix', function (){
     $('body').css('margin-top', 0);
});

To get the nav to stick on top while scrolling add this bit of CSS.

CSS:

.affix
{
    top: 0;
}

I faced the same problem but the solution that worked for me was:

HTML:

<header class="container-fluid">
    ...
</header>
<nav class="row">
    <div class="navbar navbar-inverse navbar-static-top">
        ...
    </div>
</nav>

JavaScript:

document.onscroll = function() {
    if( $(window).scrollTop() > $('header').height() ) {
        $('nav > div.navbar').removeClass('navbar-static-top').addClass('navbar-fixed-top');
    }
    else {
        $('nav > div.navbar').removeClass('navbar-fixed-top').addClass('navbar-static-top');
    }
};

Where header was the banner tag above my navigation bar