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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	The most important thing to know is that: [quote]Fixed position is a subset of absolute position.[/quote] [url=http://www.westciv.com/style_master/academy/positioning_tutorial/]from[/url] so you need to specify the position of the element with respect to its position on the screen: [code]#fixedElement { top: 0px; right: 0px; position: fixed; }[/code] However, [url=http://www.xs4all.nl/~ppk/css2tests/intro.html]browser tests[/url] suggest that although it now has pretty wide browser support: IE5 Mac, Opera 5+, Safari, Konqueror and Mozilla there is a rather major exception - Internet Explorer/Win (of course). That said [url=http://devnull.tagsoup.com/fixed/]this page[/url] attempts to address that issue. ------------------------- Relevant links: Manual: [url=http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/visuren.html#fixed-positioning]http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/visuren.html#fixed-positioning[/url] Tutorials: [url=http://developer.apple.com/internet/css/css_fixed.html]http://developer.apple.com/internet/css/css_fixed.html[/url] [url=http://www.westciv.com/style_master/academy/positioning_tutorial/]http://www.westciv.com/style_master/academy/positioning_tutorial/[/url] IE/Win fixes/hacks: [url=http://devnull.tagsoup.com/fixed/]http://devnull.tagsoup.com/fixed/[/url] [url=http://jessey.net/simon/articles/007.html]http://jessey.net/simon/articles/007.html[/url] Example: [url=http://www.w3.org/Style/Examples/007/menus.html]http://www.w3.org/Style/Examples/007/menus.html[/url] ------------------------- Relevant FAQs: [internallink=5562]How do I keep an element static on the screen when users scroll?[/internallink] ___________________ [internallink=4626]Emperor[/internallink] [small][i](Added by: [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/cgi-bin/ubbmisc.cgi?action=getbio&UserName=Emperor]Emperor [/url] on Tue 19-Aug-2003)[/i][/small] [small][i](Edited by: [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/cgi-bin/ubbmisc.cgi?action=getbio&UserName=Emperor]Emperor [/url] on Tue 19-Aug-2003)[/i][/small] Loading...
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