Fixed Top Menu Bar Overlapping Inline Hyperlink Jump - html

I have a fixed menu bar at the top of my site. I have a page that has inline linking by adding a hash tag to the URL making it jump to that particular element. The problem is the element it jumps to is hidden being this fixed menu bar. Is there a way to move the jump down a bit? Here is an example:
Example

Sadly you cannot do that via html, you'd need some JS, or even CSS, depending on your code.
Can you post a sample on jsfiddle.net ?

As a workaround, add another (hidden) element below it and simply link to that one instead:
click me
<!-- further down the page is the content -->
<div id="#element1">Here is what users will be reading!</div>
<div id="#element1-target"
style="visibility:hidden;{make this lower down below the actual text}"></div>
My only question though, is if your header bar is blocking your text that the page 'jumps' to, wouldn't you want the page to link to higher than the target?
Given your question is vague and I don't think your example shows what your problem is, this should do what (i think) you're trying to do.
:)

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Linking an off-page div section with added padding

So I apologize in advance if this question has been answered before- I tried searching but couldn't find much on it.
A designer and I are working to create this website- www.zeinal-jundi.com
This is predominantly a one-page layout using a scroll effect to navigate to different sections, although the site's Discography section does link to a separate page for each album. We also have a fixed header that allows the navigation to be visible the whole time. Originally, I had added a margin to each section of the page to accommodate the height of the fixed header. This however made the space between each section far too large, so my designer requested I find a way around this. I was able to fix it by instead adding a value to the scroll animation script that brings the section around 250px from the top, rather than to the overall top of the page (where it would then be covered by the fixed header)
So now, I've of course encountered the issue of linking to these sections from off another page- using code like the following:
Biography
This of course links back to the front page, but brings the section up to the very top, where it is hidden by our header. I'm wondering if anyone knows of a way I can link to this section from another page but add an action similar to the one I have on the scrolling function that will bring it up to 250px down from the top of the page rather than the very top without me having to add margins to each div.
Another option of course it to just make that pesky fixed header a lot shorter, or possibly hide the site title after the page scrolls to a certain point, but our client seems pretty adamant about having the entire header visible throughout, so I of course am trying to find a work around so we won't have to rethink the entire element (if such a solution even exists).
I hope I explained this well enough! Let me know if you need to see any additional code- would love to hear your thoughts on how to achieve such a thing! :)
If you're placing the block through CSS, you can use the CSS3 :target pseudo selector to position whatever section the link pointed to, e.g.:
:target {
/* ... example:
top: 250px;
*/
}

Bootstrap not lining up sections for navigation hover properly

I'm having an issue where when I scroll through my homepage with the anchor tag sections it does not line up properly. For instance, if I click "showcase" it will go to the section but not highlight the navigation hover like it should. However, if I scroll slightly down it will then hover.
I read online in the past this was resolved by adding padding into the css for the section tag. I couldn't seem to get it to work.
Any help is appreciated, thank you.
BQ: How do I change the active section the page opens to? I tried changing the "active" tag, but it still uses the same section.
I'm using this template: http://www.blacktie.co/demo/pratt/#home
you have two identical ID's on your page , eg #showcase. Other then that you probably need to set an offset in the jquery scrollto function.

making area of an html page a link

I am working on a webpage with navigation at the top. I was wondering how to make an area of an html page clickable. That way one could click not just on the text in the navigation bar but a general area around the text in order to navigate from page to page. When I keep trying to do it, it generally messes up the divs I already have on the page.
Any help would be appreciated!
Thanks!
If I understood your problem propertly:
Try setup display: block; for your menu text links, + add them padding. Also possible to use width and height
So active link will be not only the text, but also the area around it.
There are only a small set of HTML elements that you can place inside an <a>, and I am guessing none of them is doing the job for you. For example, a div cannot be placed inside an <a>.
In that case, you can use javascript or jQuery to listen for a click on a certain defined area, say a div, on the page and respond to it by changing the address (say by changing window.location.href). This will have the same effect that you are looking for.
Please note though that usability and design ethics demand that a user of your website knows that a certain area is a link and will take you somewhere else before they click it.
I'm assuming by area you mean an entire div? We can use javascript (jQuery) to do this:
$("#mydiv").click(function() {
window.location = 'http://www.google.com'; // redirect here on click
});
<div id="mydiv">
<!-- this area we can click -->
</div>

Anchors within the document and their position

On the following website, www.josecvega.com, I have a navigation bar with years that link to sections on that same page. Unfortunately it is not working they way I hoped, when the user selects a year it moves to the section of the page and puts that section on the top of the page, I have a fixed div on the top of the page that covers the sections and prevents it from properly displaying. What can I do for this to work?
It hard to explain my situation, but it can be seen by going to www.josecvega.com and clicking one of the years.
Put your anchors earlier in the file. Perhaps use a fixed-height element (the same height as your header) in the margin just before each section and apply the anchor to that.
Or use a script run after the jump and scroll back down X pixels.
Or use a frameset to display the fixed header rather than the position:fixed div you are using now.
I would probably do the latter.
your header (class=bannercontainer") is position:fixed
so this element will not scroll.
if you now click on a year it scrolls the page behind the header.
probably position:fixed is not what you want

How to Style Facebook Like Comment Pop Out Over Links?

Looking for a way in CSS (in the child theme) to make a pop out from one div display over another, without blocking the links in the lower div when the pop-out is closed.
I am trying to use the Facebook Like Button with the comment pop-out on the pages of my site and have made the .widget-pad area of my section appropriately sized to display it when it pops up, so that it goes over another section and div that is containing a large image that links to another page.
However, when the Like button is unclicked and the pop-up is not displayed the linked area (silver part in this pick) is not-clickable.
The area below where the transparant div from the Like Button is still clickable.
How to make it so I can still click the links below where a popout happens on my page?
Ok I found the answer -- I needed to use CSS to select the .widget element and not the .widget-pad element I had been using before.
Note to all trying to deal with implementing Facebook Like in WordPress widget, something like this can help if you are having trouble getting the Comments pop-out to display over other <div>'s:
.widget{overflow: visible}