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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	I tried dummying up a simple layout using position:fixed which works in FireFox 0.8 but not IE6. A quick google on IE + position:fixed, tells me that IE has some problems with position:fixed. There are a number of workarounds that various people have developed, so I'm sure that you could make it work if you wanted to. But before you go to all that pain, I have to ask: Are you committed to having the header and sidebar fixed in the viewport (browser)? If not, you can very easily attain the same layout by using the float property on your DIVs and I can assure you that you won't have the same cross-browser problems. In this case, of course, the whole page will scroll (not just the content DIV) which means that the header and sidebar may scroll off the page (depending on amount of content and the dimensions of the user's browser window). If you (or your client) can live with that, then that's what I would recommend. Loading...
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