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position:fixed that doesn't work for Internet explorer 6. I can't really understand the fixes found on google. I need it to work in IE6, IE7, IE8 & FireFox 3.0.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Sidebar fixed</title>
<style type="text/css">
#wrapper {
position:relative;
width:900px;
margin:0 auto 0 auto;
}
#sidebar_left {
position:fixed;
height:200px;
width:200px;
border:1px solid #000;
}
#sidebar_right {
position:fixed;
height:200px;
width:200px;
margin-left:700px;
border:1px solid #000;
}
#content {
position:absolute;
height:2000px;
width:480px;
margin-left:210px;
border:1px solid #000;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="sidebar_left">
<p>Left sidebar</p>
</div>
<div id="sidebar_right">
<p>Right sidebar</p>
</div>
<div id="content">
<p>This is the content</p>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
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An element with position: absolute; is positioned relative to the nearest positioned ancestor (instead of positioned relative to the viewport, like fixed).
Fixed: The position of the element will be positioned relative to the viewport. Static: The elements will be positioned according to the normal flow of the page. Relative: The element remains in the normal flow of the document but left, right, top, and bottom affects.
A fixed position element is positioned relative to the viewport, or the browser window itself. The viewport doesn't change when the window is scrolled, so a fixed positioned element will stay right where it is when the page is scrolled.
position:static; , position:absolute; , and position:relative; are the alternatives to position:fixed; . There isn't a definitive opposite, because relative , absolute , static , and fixed have different properties to behave differently.
Don't support IE6! The sooner people stop hacking sites about for IE6, the less traction it will have and the quicker it will die! Or, add this code after your first style block;
<!--[if IE 6]>
<style type="text/css">
#sidebar_right, #sidebar_left {
position:absolute; /* position fixed for IE6 */
top:expression(0+((e=document.documentElement.scrollTop)?e:document.body.scrollTop)+'px');
left:expression(0+((e=document.documentElement.scrollLeft)?e:document.body.scrollLeft)+'px');
}
</style>
<![endif]-->
The result isn't super-smooth, but it does work.
UPDATE
I wasn't too clear on how this should be used; simply add the id (or class) of any elements that have "position:fixed" to the declaration list at the start of the above block and they will behave themselves in IE6.
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