top nav bar blocking top content of the page

Answer 1

EDIT: This solution is not viable for newer versions of Bootstrap, where the navbar-inverse and navbar-static-top classes are not available.

Using MVC 5, the way I fixed mine, was to simply add my own Site.css, loaded after the others, with the following line: body{padding: 0}

and I changed the code in the beginning of _Layout.cshtml, to be:

    

        

            @if (User.Identity.IsAuthenticated) {