[WEB4LIB] fixed positioning does not work with Internet Explorer 6

[Justin Rounds]

The style "position:fixed" does _not_ work in IE/Windows, so you can 
either use a frameset to achieve the results you want, you can hack up 
some dhtml that will reposition the "sidebar" div whenever the page is 
scrolled, or you can just live with it and design your page accordingly.

My recommendation is just to live with it -- this is W3C-standard CSS 
code that IE *should* be implementing, but doesn't.

Add it to the ever-growing list of reasons to dump IE.
_
j


John Fitzgibbon wrote:
> Hi,
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> I am trying to create a side bar that will function like a navigation
>  page within a frame. I am trying to fix its position within the
> viewport so that it remains visible irrespective of how the page is
> scrolled. I thought the way to do this would be to use a style sheet
> to set position to fixed like so
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> sidebar {position:fixed; top:0%; left:0%;}
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> but this does not seem to work. The element is not fixed on the page.
> It disappears when I scroll down the page.
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> Any ideas would be much appreciated.
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> Regards
> 
> John
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Justin Rounds
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