How could I show my navigation bar over my body / section text? - html

Question

My problem is when I scroll up, the text on the page goes through my navbar and it looks really unprofessional and I need to fix it. I want to make it so that my navigation bar is layered on top of my body / section text (body text includes navigation bar but section only includes text not on my nav bar),
I tried adding a background-color and that worked except when I used my dark / light mode switcher, I have css properties for dark mode and light mode but I can't use a background color otherwise when you switch, it will still show the background color for light mode (or whatever mode you were deigning for).
I also tried Z-Indexes since that is supposed to work but no, literally did nothing. Which was really weird. I wish I could elaborate more but that's all I can say, it just didn't work. Here is an example of what I did but I can't actually show you the exact code since I already deleted those Z-Indexes since they didn't work.
EXAMPLE NAV BAR CSS {
z-index: 100;
}
EXAMPLE SECTION / TEXT CSS {
z-index: -100;
}
Here's my navigation bar code:
<ul>
<div class="without-dark-ul">
<img class="logo" width="100px" src="\imgs\logo.png">
<h1 class="logo-side">[PRIVATE] Accounting</h1>
<h2 class="logo-side-slogan">The best, afforadable accounting.</h2>
<br>
<hr>
<h3 class="navbar-text">Navigation</h3>
<div class="navbar">
<li><a class="main-nav" href="#">Home</a></li>
<li>Pricing</li>
<li>Contact</li>
</div>
<div class="vl"></div>
<h3 class="dark-mode-text">Dark / Light Mode</h3>
</div>
<div class="ul-dark">
<li class="li-dark">
<span>Dark</span>
<span>Light</span>
</li>
</div>
</ul>
And here's my CSS for my navbar (and I've got some in navbar CSS and some in dark mode CSS, I honestly don't know why I did it like that though.)
/* START NAVBAR */
.logo-side {
margin-left: 140px;
margin-top: -95px;
font-size: 40px
font-
}
.logo-side-slogan {
margin-left: 140px;
margin-top: -30px;
}
.logo {
margin-top: 20px;
margin-left: 20px;
}
ul {
list-style-type: none;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
overflow: hidden;
position: fixed;
/* position: -webkit-sticky; Safari */
/* position: sticky; */
top: 0;
width: 100%;
z-index: 100;
}
ul > hr {
margin-left: 10px;
margin-right: 10px;
margin-top: -10px;
}
li {
float: left;
}
li a {
display: block;
text-align: center;
padding: 14px 16px;
text-decoration: none;
color: inherit;
}
li a:hover {
background-color: rgb(105, 103, 103);
}
.main-nav {
background-color: #383838;
color: white;
}
.navbar {
margin-left: 20px;
margin-top: 30px;
padding-bottom: 70px;
}
.navbar-text {
margin-left: 20px;
margin-bottom: -20px;
}
.navigation-bar {
background-color: #262626;
position: absolute;
}
/* END NAVBAR */
/* START DARK MODE */ (This includes some nav bar CSS properties.)
.li-dark {
list-style: none;
width: 100%;
height: 60px;
text-align: center;
text-transform: uppercase;
transition: 0.5s;
}
.ul-dark.active li {
transform: translateY(-30px);
}
ul li span {
display: block;
height: 30px;
line-height: 30px;
width: 100%;
}
ul li span:nth-child(1) {
background: #262626;
color: #fff;
}
.ul-dark {
position: static;
top: 20px;
right: 20px;
margin-top: 25px;
margin-left: 320px;
padding: 0;
width: 100px;
height: 30px;
border: 1px solid #000;
cursor: pointer;
overflow: hidden;
}
.dark-mode-text {
margin-left: 320px;
margin-top: -113px;
}
/* END DARK MODE */
I don't know if that is all you need but please ask me to send more code if you need more!
Thanks for your help.
Solninja A

Answer 1

give a position relative to body and your text parent
and z-index:10000;