twitter bootstrap navbar fixed top overlapping site

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

Answer 1

All the previous solutions hard-code 40 pixels specifically into the html or CSS in one fashion or another. What if the navbar contains a different font-size or an image? What if I have a good reason not to mess with the body padding in the first place? I have been searching for a solution to this problem, and here is what I came up with:

$(document).ready(function(){
    $('.contentwrap') .css({'margin-top': (($('.navbar-fixed-top').height()) + 1 )+'px'});
    $(window).resize(function(){
        $('.contentwrap') .css({'margin-top': (($('.navbar-fixed-top').height()) + 1 )+'px'});
});

You can move it up or down by adjusting the '1'. It seems to work for me regardless of the size of the content in the navbar, before and after resizing.

I am curious what others think about this: please share your thoughts. (It will be refactored as not to repeat, btw.) Besides using jQuery, are there any other reasons not to approach the problem this way? I've even got it working with a secondary navbar like this:

$('.contentwrap') .css({'margin-top': (($('.navbar-fixed-top').height())
        + $('.admin-nav').height() + 1 )+'px'});

PS: Above is on Bootstrap 2.3.2 - will it work in 3.x As long as the generic class names remain... in fact, it should work independent of bootstrap, right?

EDIT: Here is a complete jquery function that handles two stacked, responsive fixed navbars of dynamic size. It requires 3 html classes(or could use id's): user-top, admin-top, and contentwrap:

$(document).ready(function(){

    $('.admin-top').css({'margin-top':($('.user-top').height()+0)+'px'});
    $('.contentwrap') .css({'padding-top': (
        $('.user-top').height()
         + $('.admin-top').height()
         + 0 )+'px'
    });

    $(window).resize(function(){
        $('.admin-top').css({'margin-top':($('.user-top').height()+0)+'px'});
        $('.contentwrap') .css({'padding-top': (
            $('.user-top').height()
             + $('.admin-top').height()
             + 0 )+'px'
        });
});

Answer 2

use this class inside nav tag

class="navbar navbar-expand-lg navbar-light bg-light sticky-top"

For bootstrap 4

Answer 3

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 4

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 5

I just wrapped the navbar in a

<div width="100%">
<div class="nav-? ??">
...
</nav>
</div>

No fancy hocus pocus but it worked..

Answer 6

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