Bootstrap navigation not aligned with content

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Solution

Your `navbar` DIV needs a nested `container` DIV for it to align with your other content.

Check out this example.

It uses the following source:

<body>
    <div class="navbar navbar-inverse navbar-fixed-top">
      <div class="container"> <!-- You need this DIV for alignment -->
        <div class="navbar-header">
          <button type="button" class="navbar-toggle" data-toggle="collapse" data-target=".navbar-collapse">
            <span class="icon-bar"></span>
            <span class="icon-bar"></span>
            <span class="icon-bar"></span>
          </button>
          <a class="navbar-brand" href="#">Project name</a>
        </div>
        <div class="navbar-collapse collapse">
          <ul class="nav navbar-nav">
            <li class="active"><a href="#">Home</a></li>
            <li><a href="#about">About</a></li>
            <li><a href="#contact">Contact</a></li>
            <li class="dropdown">
              <a href="#" class="dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown">Dropdown <b class="caret"></b></a>
              <ul class="dropdown-menu">
                <li><a href="#">Action</a></li>
                <li><a href="#">Another action</a></li>
                <li><a href="#">Something else here</a></li>
                <li class="divider"></li>
                <li class="dropdown-header">Nav header</li>
                <li><a href="#">Separated link</a></li>
                <li><a href="#">One more separated link</a></li>
              </ul>
            </li>
          </ul>
          <form class="navbar-form navbar-right">
            <div class="form-group">
              <input type="text" placeholder="Email" class="form-control">
            </div>
            <div class="form-group">
              <input type="password" placeholder="Password" class="form-control">
            </div>
            <button type="submit" class="btn btn-success">Sign in</button>
          </form>
        </div><!--/.navbar-collapse -->
      </div>
    </div>

    <div class="container">
        <!-- Main content goes here -->
    </div>
</body>

Problem

Why is the content not aligned with the brand using Bootstrap 3.0.0? How can I get these aligned? Here is my HTML: ``` <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title>Title</title> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width initial-scale=1.0"> <link href="bower_components/bootstrap/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet" media="screen"> <link href="css/app.css" rel="stylesheet"> </head> <body> <div class="navbar navbar-inverse navbar-fixed-top"> <div class="navbar-inner"> <div class="container"> <span class="navbar-brand">Brand</span> </div> </div> </div> <div id="main-region" class="container"> <p>Content</p> </div> <script data-main="js/main" src="bower_components/requirejs/require.js"></script> <script src="bower_components/bootstrap/dist/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script> </body> </html> ``` Here is app.css: ``` body { padding-top: 60px; } ```

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