IE 6 vs. position:fixed
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>
Answer
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.