top nav bar blocking top content of the page

Answer 1

In my project derived from the MVC 5 tutorial I found that changing the body padding had no effect. The following worked for me:

@media screen and (min-width:768px) and (max-width:991px) {
    body {
        margin-top:100px;
    }
}
@media screen and (min-width:992px) and (max-width:1199px) {
    body {
        margin-top:50px;
    }
}

It resolves the cases where the navbar folds into 2 or 3 lines. This can be inserted into bootstrap.css anywhere after the lines body { margin: 0; }