Fixed page layout in IE6
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09-06-2019 - |
Question
Header, footer and sidebars have fixed position. In the center a content area with both scroll bars. No outer scroll bars on the browser. I have a layout that works in IE7 and FF. I need to add IE6 support. How can I make this work?
Here is an approximation of my current CSS.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>Layout</title>
<style>
* {
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
border: 0px;
}
.sample-border {
border: 1px solid black;
}
#header {
position: absolute;
top: 0px;
left: 0px;
right: 0px;
height: 60px;
}
#left-sidebar {
position: absolute;
top: 65px;
left: 0px;
width: 220px;
bottom: 110px;
}
#right-sidebar {
position: absolute;
top: 65px;
right: 0px;
width: 200px;
bottom: 110px;
}
#footer {
position: absolute;
bottom: 0px;
left: 0px;
right: 0px;
height: 105px;
}
@media screen {
#content {
position: absolute;
top: 65px;
left: 225px;
bottom: 110px;
right: 205px;
overflow: auto;
}
body #left-sidebar,
body #right-sidebar,
body #header,
body #footer,
body #content {
position: fixed;
}
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="header" class="sample-border"></div>
<div id="left-sidebar" class="sample-border"></div>
<div id="right-sidebar" class="sample-border"></div>
<div id="content" class="sample-border"><img src="/broken.gif" style="display: block; width: 3000px; height: 3000px;" /></div>
<div id="footer" class="sample-border"></div>
</body>
</html>
Solution
Might be overkill for your project, but Dean Edwards' IE7 javascript adds support for fixed positioning to IE6.
OTHER TIPS
Add the following code to the <head>
<!--[if lte IE 6]>
<style type="text/css">
html, body {
height: 100%;
overflow: auto;
}
.ie6fixed {
position: absolute;
}
</style>
<![endif]-->
Add the ie6fixed
CSS class to whatever you want to be position: fixed;
Try IE7.js. Should fix your problem without having to make any modifications.
Link: IE7.js
These answers were helpful and they did let me add a limited form of fixed positioning to IE6, however none of these fix the bug that breaks my layout in IE6 if I specify both a top and a bottom css property for my sidebars (which is the behavior I need).
Since top and bottom can't be specified, I used top and height. The height property turned out to be very necessary. I used javascript to recalculate the height when the page loads and for any resize.
Below is the code I added to my test case to get it to work. This could be much cleaner with jQuery.
<!--[if lt IE 7]>
<style>
body>div.ie6-autoheight {
height: 455px;
}
body>div.ie6-autowidth {
right: ;
width: 530px;
}
</style>
<script src="http://ie7-js.googlecode.com/svn/version/2.0(beta3)/IE7.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
function fixLayout() {
if (document.documentElement.offsetWidth) {
var w = document.documentElement.offsetWidth - 450;
var h = document.documentElement.offsetHeight - 175;
var l = document.getElementById('left-sidebar');
var r = document.getElementById('right-sidebar');
var c = document.getElementById('content');
c.style.width = w;
c.style.height = h;
l.style.height = h;
r.style.height = h;
}
}
window.onresize = fixLayout;
fixLayout();
</script>
<![endif]-->
check out the pure css hacks below... some require forcing it into quirks mode (I think that's the most robust) but all work really well:
http://ryanfait.com/resources/fixed-positioning-in-internet-explorer/ http://tagsoup.com/cookbook/css/fixed/
I've used this to great effect, hope it helps!