Getting position:fixed to work on IE

posted April 25, 2008

Like I mentioned in another post, having a div with a position:fixed doesn’t work in lower versions of IE; but IE7 beta 2 apparently works, but you have to declare the document as strict:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd”>

In this tutorial, I’ll show you a way to get around this and implement a fake “position:fixed.”
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filed under: ie solutions

tags: fixed, ie solutions, position

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Absolute, relative, and floats

posted April 8, 2008

I’ve seen a lot of people in forums having problems with their container divs not expanding with the content inside. I’ve had plenty of those problems myself. One of the main reasons is that the content is inside an absolutely positioned div.
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filed under: layouts

tags: absolute, clear, float, position, relative

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