Descriptions is written overtop the text

Question

Its the first time to use description but there the description overlay the text as shown here enter image description here

this is the script I'm using:

\documentclass[conference]{IEEEtran}

\usepackage{cite}
\usepackage{tabularx,booktabs}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{caption}
\usepackage{epstopdf}
%\usepackage{subcaption}
\usepackage{longtable}
\usepackage{comment}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\usepackage[table]{xcolor}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{caption}
%\usepackage{subcaption}
\usepackage{longtable}
\usepackage{comment}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amsfonts}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{gensymb}
\usepackage{adjustbox}
\usepackage{subfig}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{enumerate}

\usepackage{algorithm}
\usepackage{algorithmic}

\ifCLASSINFOpdf


\else


\fi


\bibliographystyle{IEEEtran}



\begin{document}


\title{A}


\author{\IEEEauthorblockN{}}


\maketitle


\IEEEpeerreviewmaketitle




\begin{description}
  \item[Experiment 1 :] In this experiment, aaaa
  \item[Experiment 2 :]   This experiment is the same as Experiment 1, but
  \item[Experiment 3 :] This experiment is the same as Experiment 1, but the
\end{description}

\bibliography{../refhJ}

\end{document}

Seems like Description-like environment with fixed labels width would solve your problem. — cslstr, Mar 10 '14 at 04:02
Please post a Minimal Working Example demonstrating your issue. If I copy your code into an empty article and compile, it looks fine. No overlap at all. So the problem is something beyond what you are showing. Make sure your code compiles as posted and that it shows the issue as posted. Otherwise, we really can have no idea. — cfr, Mar 10 '14 at 04:05
@cfr Thanks, I've updated the question and put the whole document so if you could have a look — Tak, Mar 10 '14 at 04:30
In the future, MWEs are most helpful when you also remove the extraneous packages and text that are irrelevant to the problem at hand. See how to minimalize your MWE for more great information in this regard. — cslstr, Mar 10 '14 at 04:49

score 4 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:35

If you add \usepackage{enumitem} to the preamble and then define your list with \begin{description}[leftmargin=8em,style=nextline], you can get rid of your problem, as described in Description-like environment with fixed labels width.

A full example:

\documentclass[conference]{IEEEtran}

\usepackage{cite}
\usepackage{tabularx,booktabs}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{caption}
\usepackage{epstopdf}
%\usepackage{subcaption}
\usepackage{longtable}
\usepackage{comment}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\usepackage[table]{xcolor}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{caption}
%\usepackage{subcaption}
\usepackage{longtable}
\usepackage{comment}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amsfonts}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{gensymb}
\usepackage{adjustbox}
\usepackage{subfig}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{enumerate}
\usepackage{enumitem}

\usepackage{algorithm}
\usepackage{algorithmic}

\ifCLASSINFOpdf


\else


\fi


\bibliographystyle{IEEEtran}



\begin{document}


\title{A}


\author{\IEEEauthorblockN{}}


\maketitle


\IEEEpeerreviewmaketitle




\begin{description}[leftmargin=8em,style=nextline]
  \item[Experiment 1 :] In this experiment, aaaa
  \item[Experiment 2 :]   This experiment is the same as Experiment 1, but
  \item[Experiment 3 :] This experiment is the same as Experiment 1, but the
\end{description}

\bibliography{../refhJ}

\end{document}

displays the list as:

description list

Descriptions is written overtop the text

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