title: Bootstrap navbar sidebar covering page text
body: <p>Link to the navbar sidebar I am using: <a href="http://bootsnipp.com/snippets/featured/responsive-navigation-menu" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://bootsnipp.com/snippets/featured/responsive-navigation-menu</a></p>
  
  <p>I'm having trouble figuring out how stop this sidebar from blocking text on a page. I've used navbars before and they appear to separate from the rest of the page, so pieces of the webpage don't disappear behind it. I understand this isn't an official bootstrap navbar, as I believe they don't fully support sidebars. </p>
  
  <p><div class="snippet" data-lang="js" data-hide="false" data-console="true" data-babel="false">
  <div class="snippet-code">
  <pre class="snippet-code-css lang-css prettyprint-override"><code>// Place all the styles related to the Welcome controller here.
  // They will automatically be included in application.css.
  // You can use Sass (SCSS) here: http://sass-lang.com/
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  /* BELOW HERE IS ALL NAVBAR CSS */
  .nav-side-menu {
    overflow: auto;
    font-family: verdana;
    font-size: 12px;
    font-weight: 200;
    background-color: #2e353d;
    position: fixed;
    top: 0px;
    width: 300px;
    height: 100%;
    color: #e1ffff;
  }
  .nav-side-menu .brand {
    background-color: #23282e;
    line-height: 50px;
    display: block;
    text-align: center;
    font-size: 14px;
  }
  .nav-side-menu .toggle-btn {
    display: none;
  }
  .nav-side-menu ul,
  .nav-side-menu li {
    list-style: none;
    padding: 0px;
    margin: 0px;
    line-height: 35px;
    cursor: pointer;
    /*    
      .collapsed{
         .arrow:before{
                   font-family: FontAwesome;
                   content: "\f053";
                   display: inline-block;
                   padding-left:10px;
                   padding-right: 10px;
                   vertical-align: middle;
                   float:right;
              }
       }
  */
  }
  .nav-side-menu ul :not(collapsed) .arrow:before,
  .nav-side-menu li :not(collapsed) .arrow:before {
    font-family: FontAwesome;
    content: "\f078";
    display: inline-block;
    padding-left: 10px;
    padding-right: 10px;
    vertical-align: middle;
    float: right;
  }
  .nav-side-menu ul .active,
  .nav-side-menu li .active {
    border-left: 3px solid #d19b3d;
    background-color: #4f5b69;
  }
  .nav-side-menu ul .sub-menu li.active,
  .nav-side-menu li .sub-menu li.active {
    color: #d19b3d;
  }
  .nav-side-menu ul .sub-menu li.active a,
  .nav-side-menu li .sub-menu li.active a {
    color: #d19b3d;
  }
  .nav-side-menu ul .sub-menu li,
  .nav-side-menu li .sub-menu li {
    background-color: #181c20;
    border: none;
    line-height: 28px;
    border-bottom: 1px solid #23282e;
    margin-left: 0px;
  }
  .nav-side-menu ul .sub-menu li:hover,
  .nav-side-menu li .sub-menu li:hover {
    background-color: #020203;
  }
  .nav-side-menu ul .sub-menu li:before,
  .nav-side-menu li .sub-menu li:before {
    font-family: FontAwesome;
    content: "\f105";
    display: inline-block;
    padding-left: 10px;
    padding-right: 10px;
    vertical-align: middle;
  }
  .nav-side-menu li {
    padding-left: 0px;
    border-left: 3px solid #2e353d;
    border-bottom: 1px solid #23282e;
  }
  .nav-side-menu li a {
    text-decoration: none;
    color: #e1ffff;
  }
  .nav-side-menu li a i {
    padding-left: 10px;
    width: 20px;
    padding-right: 20px;
  }
  .nav-side-menu li:hover {
    border-left: 3px solid #d19b3d;
    background-color: #4f5b69;
    -webkit-transition: all 1s ease;
    -moz-transition: all 1s ease;
    -o-transition: all 1s ease;
    -ms-transition: all 1s ease;
    transition: all 1s ease;
  }
  @media (max-width: 767px) {
    .nav-side-menu {
      position: relative;
      width: 100%;
      margin-bottom: 10px;
    }
    .nav-side-menu .toggle-btn {
      display: block;
      cursor: pointer;
      position: absolute;
      right: 10px;
      top: 10px;
      z-index: 10 !important;
      padding: 3px;
      background-color: #ffffff;
      color: #000;
      width: 40px;
      text-align: center;
    }
    .brand {
      text-align: left !important;
      font-size: 22px;
      padding-left: 20px;
      line-height: 50px !important;
    }
  }
  @media (min-width: 767px) {
    .nav-side-menu .menu-list .menu-content {
      display: block;
    }
  }
  body {
    margin: 0px;
    padding: 0px;
  }
  /* ABOVE HERE IS ALL NAVBAR CSS */</code></pre>
  <pre class="snippet-code-html lang-html prettyprint-override"><code>&lt;!DOCTYPE html&gt;
  &lt;html lang="en"&gt;
  &lt;head&gt;
    &lt;meta charset="utf-8"&gt;
    &lt;meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge"&gt;
    &lt;meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"&gt;
    &lt;link href="//maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.2.0/css/font-awesome.min.css" rel="stylesheet"&gt;
  
    &lt;title&gt;Index&lt;/title&gt;
  
  
  &lt;/head&gt;
  &lt;body&gt;
  
  
  &lt;div class="container-fluid"&gt;
  &lt;div class="nav-side-menu"&gt;
      &lt;div class="brand"&gt;Navbar Sidebar&lt;/div&gt;
      &lt;i class="fa fa-bars fa-2x toggle-btn" data-toggle="collapse" data-target="#menu-content"&gt;&lt;/i&gt;
    
          &lt;div class="menu-list"&gt;
    
              &lt;ul id="menu-content" class="menu-content collapse out"&gt;
                  &lt;li&gt;
                    &lt;a href="#"&gt;
                    &lt;i class="fa fa-dashboard fa-lg"&gt;&lt;/i&gt; Dashboard
                    &lt;/a&gt;
                  &lt;/li&gt;
  
                  &lt;li  data-toggle="collapse" data-target="#products" class="collapsed active"&gt;
                    &lt;a&gt;&lt;i class="fa fa-gift fa-lg"&gt;&lt;/i&gt;
                      &lt;%= link_to("Contact",
                        {:controller =&gt; 'welcome',
                           :action =&gt; 'contact'
                        }) %&gt;                  
                    &lt;span class="arrow"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
                  &lt;/li&gt;
                  
                  
                  &lt;li  data-toggle="collapse" data-target="#products" class="collapsed active"&gt;
                    &lt;a href="#"&gt;&lt;i class="fa fa-gift fa-lg"&gt;&lt;/i&gt; Help &lt;span class="arrow"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
                  &lt;/li&gt;
                  
  
  
                  &lt;li data-toggle="collapse" data-target="#service" class="collapsed"&gt;
                    &lt;a href="#"&gt;&lt;i class="fa fa-globe fa-lg"&gt;&lt;/i&gt; Lessons &lt;span class="arrow"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
                  &lt;/li&gt;  
                  &lt;ul class="sub-menu collapse" id="service"&gt;
                    &lt;li&gt;Lesson 1&lt;/li&gt;
                    &lt;li&gt;Lesson 2&lt;/li&gt;
                    &lt;li&gt;Lesson 3&lt;/li&gt;
                  &lt;/ul&gt;
  
  
                   &lt;li&gt;
                    &lt;a href="#"&gt;
                    &lt;i class="fa fa-user fa-lg"&gt;&lt;/i&gt; Profile
                    &lt;/a&gt;
                    &lt;/li&gt;
  
                   &lt;li&gt;
                    &lt;a href="#"&gt;
                    &lt;i class="fa fa-users fa-lg"&gt;&lt;/i&gt; Users
                    &lt;/a&gt;
                  &lt;/li&gt;
              &lt;/ul&gt;
       &lt;/div&gt;
  &lt;/div&gt;
  
  
  
  &lt;div class="main"&gt;
  
    &lt;div class="row"&gt;
      &lt;div class="col-md-8"&gt;
        &lt;h1&gt;Navbar Sidebar&lt;/h1&gt;
        &lt;p&gt; test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test&lt;/p&gt;
        &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
        &lt;p&gt; test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test&lt;/p&gt;
  
    &lt;/div&gt;
  
  
  
  
  
  
  &lt;/div&gt; &lt;!-- end main div --&gt;
  
  
  
  &lt;/div&gt; &lt;!-- close container fluid --&gt;
  
  
  &lt;/body&gt;
  &lt;/html&gt;</code></pre>
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  <p>Apparently imgur is currently having issues, and others (myself included) cannot upload images onto stack using imgur, so I have included a gyazo snapshot of the issue I am having:</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://gyazo.com/ad10f592a97335189c053d04411daff6" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://gyazo.com/ad10f592a97335189c053d04411daff6</a></p>