My requirement is a page with a fixed position header and full border around the page.
Setting this up is simple, but I have a problem with the fixed position header overlapping the page border.
Visually, this shows the problem:
You can see the fixed position header overlaps the border on the right. My aim is to prevent this from happening.
This the relevant block of code I believe - testing this by setting position to relative, for example, will stop the header overlapping the right border, but I need the header to be fixed.
.site-header {
min-height: 100px;
background: blue;
position: fixed;
width: 100%;
z-index: 10;
}
Here is a pen to demonstrate the issue in full:
http://codepen.io/juxprose/pen/vERQQr
Any ideas? I've tried some z-index experiments as that appears to be the issue, but no luck. The 100% width also seems related to the issue. Any pointers much appreciated, thanks.
Try changing your css to this:
.site-header {
min-height: 100px;
background: blue;
position: fixed;
width: 100%;
z-index: -1;
}
.site-main {
position: relative;
margin: 100px 25px;
z-index:-2;
}
It's working on CodePen - hope it works for you too.
http://codepen.io/juxprose/pen/vERQQr
Please add left and right 10px then it will solve
replace width: 100% with right: 10px and left: 10px
.site-header {
min-height: 100px;
background: blue;
position: fixed;
right: 10px;
left: 10px;
z-index: 10;
}
Example: http://codepen.io/anon/pen/yyKGyJ
Result
If you look at this fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/bastien/PybrF/1/
#header {
position: fixed;
top: 0px;
left: 0px;
height: 50px;
width: 100%;
background-color: yellow;
}
#content {
top: 51px;
left: 0px;
bottom: 0px;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
position: fixed;
overflow: auto;
background-color: orange;
}
If you resize the window then the vertical scrollbar gets visible in the content div. BUT it gets only visible (so it seems for me...) when I have exceeded the height in pixel of the header while resizing the window.
How can I get the vertical scrollbar correctly?
UPDATE
I want a header which stays fixed.
I want a content which has inside scrollbars.
something like this: http://jsfiddle.net/bastien/PybrF/7/
but the vertical scrollbars should start inside the content div and not start at the header/body.
Try this in your css:
* { margin: 0; padding: 0 }
#header, #content { width: 100%; position: absolute; }
#header {
height: 50px;
background-color: yellow;
}
#content {
top: 50px;
height: 70%;
overflow-y: auto;
background-color: orange;
}
Will produce this:
As for the height of the content to use all the space left, I would to a js function wired to the resize event to set the height of the content to the page height minus the height of the header. I honestly don't know another solution for this.
Due to your use of fixed positioning and application of overflow settings, only the #content area will scroll.
Consider this:
1) Add the orange background color to the body element and remove its margins:
body {
margin:0px;
padding:0px;
background-color: orange;
overflow-x: hidden;
overflow-y: auto;
}
2) Position the other elements relatively:
#header {
position: relative;
height: 50px;
background-color: yellow;
}
#container {
position:relative;
}
http://jsfiddle.net/PybrF/6/
EDIT:
I'm still unclear on what you're looking for, but here's another method.
This one keeps the header fixed and puts the scrollbar inside the #content area.
body {
background-color: orange;
margin:0px;
}
#header {
position: fixed;
top: 0px;
left: 0px;
height: 50px;
width: 100%;
background-color: yellow;
z-index:1; /* keep the header on top of the content */
}
#content {
position:relative;
padding-top:50px; /* height of the header */
}
http://jsfiddle.net/PybrF/8/
ok I knew it must work:
Still found some old similar code and refactored it:
have fun! :)
Sorry for telling crap.
Remove the width/height percentage settings and use the left/right/bottom etc settings. Thats enough.
Forget about the main div which was from this other project long ago.
http://jsfiddle.net/bastien/PybrF/12/
I have the following html...
<div class="header"></div>
<div class="main"></div>
<div class="footer"></div>
And following css...
.header{
position: fixed;
background-color: #f00;
height: 100px;
}
.main{
background-color: #ff0;
height: 700px;
}
.footer{
position: fixed;
bottom: 0;
background-color: #f0f;
height: 120px;}
But why the header and footer is not fixed, anything I did wrong? I want only "main" to be scrollable and "header" and "footer" to be at a fixed position. How to do?
+-------------------------------------+
| header | -> at fixed position (top of window)
+-------------------------------------+
| main |
| |
| | -> scrollable as its contents
| | scroll bar is window scroll bar not of main
| |
| |
+-------------------------------------+
| footer | -> at fixed position (bottom of window)
+-------------------------------------+
See this fiddle
My issue was that a parent element had transform: scale(1); this apparently makes it impossible for any element to be fixed inside it. By removing that everything works normally...
It seems to be like this in all browsers I tested (Chrome, Safari) so don't know if it comes from some strange web standard.
(It's a popup that goes from scale(0) to scale(1))
if a parent container contains transform this could happen. try commenting them
-webkit-transform: translate3d(0,0,0);
transform: translate3d(0,0,0);
you need to give width explicitly to header and footer
width: 100%;
Working fiddle
If you want the middle section not to be hidden then give position: absolute;width: 100%; and set top and bottom properties (related to header and footer heights) to it and give parent element position: relative. (ofcourse, remove height: 700px;.) and to make it scrollable, give overflow: auto.
Double-check that you haven't enabled backface-visibility on any of the containing elements, as that will wreck position: fixed. For me, I was using a CSS3 animation library...
Working jsFiddle Demo
When you are working with fixed or absolute values,
it's good idea to set top or bottom and left or right (or combination of them) properties.
Also don't set the height of main element (let browser set the height of it with setting top and bottom properties).
.header{
position: fixed;
background-color: #f00;
height: 100px;
top: 0;
left: 0;
right: 0;
}
.main{
background-color: #ff0;
position: fixed;
bottom: 120px;
left: 0;
right: 0;
top: 100px;
overflow: auto;
}
.footer{
position: fixed;
bottom: 0;
background-color: #f0f;
height: 120px;
bottom: 0;
left: 0;
right: 0;
}
I had a similar problem caused by the addition of a CSS value for perspective in the body CSS
body { perspective: 1200px; }
Killed
#mainNav { position: fixed; }
As others pointed out, certain CSS properties on a parent element will prevent position: fixed from working. In my case it was backdrop-filter.
This might be an old topic but in my case it was the layout value of css contain property of the parent element that was causing the issue. I am using a framework for hybrid mobile that use this contain property in most of their component.
For example:
.parentEl {
contain: size style layout;
}
.parentEl .childEl {
position: fixed;
top: 0;
left: 0;
}
Just remove the layout value of contain property and the fixed content should work!
.parentEl {
contain: size style;
}
Another cause could be a parent container that contains the CSS animation property. That's what it was for me.
For anyone having this issue primarily with navbars, not sticking to the top, I found that if any element in the parent container of the positon: fixed; element has a width exceeding 100% - so creating horizontal scrollbars - is the issue.
To solve it set the 'parent element' to have overflow-x: hidden;
You forgot to add the width of the two divs.
.header {
position: fixed;
top:0;
background-color: #f00;
height: 100px; width: 100%;
}
.footer {
position: fixed;
bottom: 0;
background-color: #f0f;
height: 120px; width:100%;
}
demo
You didn't add any width or content to the elements. Also you should set padding top and bottom to your main element so the content is not hidden behind the header/footer. You can remove the height as well and let the browser decide based on the content.
http://jsfiddle.net/BrmGr/12/
.header{
position: fixed;
background-color: #f00;
height: 100px;
width:100%;
}
.main{
background-color: #ff0;
padding-top: 100px;
padding-bottom: 120px;
}
.footer{
position: fixed;
bottom: 0;
background-color: #f0f;
height: 120px;
width:100%;}
You have no width set and there is not content in the divs is one issue. The other is that the way html works... when all three of fixed, is that the hierarchy goes from bottom to top... so the content is on top of the header since they are both fixed... so in this case you need to declare a z-index on the header... but I wouldn't do that... leave that one relative so it can scroll normally.
Go mobile first on this... FIDDLE HERE
HTML
<header class="global-header">HEADER</header>
<section class="main-content">CONTENT</section>
<footer class="global-footer">FOOTER</footer>
CSS
html, body {
padding: 0; margin: 0;
height: 100%;
}
.global-header {
width: 100%;
float: left;
min-height: 5em;
background-color: red;
}
.main-content {
width: 100%;
float: left;
height: 50em;
background-color: yellow;
}
.global-footer {
width: 100%;
float: left;
min-height: 5em;
background-color: lightblue;
}
#media (min-width: 30em) {
.global-header {
position: fixed;
top: 0;
left: 0;
}
.main-content {
height: 100%;
margin-top: 5em; /* to offset header */
}
.global-footer {
position: fixed;
bottom: 0;
left: 0;
}
} /* ================== */
I had the same issue, my parent was set to transform-style: preserve-3d; removing it did the trick for me.
We'll never convince people to leave IE6 if we keep striving to deliver quality websites to those users.
Only IE7+ understood "position: fixed".
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/position
So you're out of luck for IE6. To get the footer semi-sticky try this:
.main {
min-height: 100%;
margin-bottom: -60px;
}
.footer {
height: 60px;
}
You could also use an iFrame maybe.
This will keep the footer from 'lifting off' from the bottom of the page. If you have more than one page of content then it will push down out of site.
On a philosophical note, I'd rather point IE6 users to http://browsehappy.com/ and spend the time I save hacking for IE6 on something else.
You can use it in the same way because if the parent container has the transform effect, you could create a child where it occupies 100% of the parent container and add a position realtive and then the container that you want to add the position fixed and it works without problems.
might be an answer for some cases https://stackoverflow.com/a/75284271/7874122
TLDR position: fixed is attached to containing element, by which element is positioned. if containing block is different than viewport dimensions, fixed element will be placed according to containing block.
I have a div main that I have wrapped around my content and a sidebar. I have assigned the #main to have a background image and a min-height of 1200px.
In Google Chrome & Firefox, when I inspect the div doesn't have any properties when I inspect the source. Thus the div's background image and height don't work either.
<!--Main content layout -->
#main {
clear:both;
position: relative;
min-height: 1200px;
background-image:url(images/white.png);
background-repeat: repeat-x;
}
.sidebar1 {
float: right;
width: 20%;
padding-bottom: 10px;
margin-top: 20px;
}
.content {
padding: 10px 0;
width: 76%;
float: left;
margin-top: 20px;
}
The site address is: http://www.tibetskyvillage.org/
Would really appreciate someone elses eyes on this. I use this method all the time and for some reason this time it's failing.
The comment <!--Main content layout --> is not a valid CSS comment but an HTML comment instead causing a parse error.
See the screenshot, I have found some disturbances in your layout, to fix this or solution to your problem is
Don't give the image as background in CSS, give it as image in html like this
<img width="1360" height="675" src="images/bg0.jpg" class="wraper">
<div id="main">Your content</div>
Add styles to the image and main as
.wraper {
height: 100%;
left: 0;
position: fixed;
top: 0;
width: 100%;
}
#main{
position: absolute;
min-height: 1200px;
width:100%;
}
I have a div which needs to fill out the height of the browser's viewport,but still says in the same position when the user scrolls the web page up and down. position: fixed; does this, but I am unable to use it as it's making the overflow scroll bar of the div jerky and slow. Is there an position or method that I can use so for example I currently have:
div.panel {
position: absolute;
top: 36px;
right: 0;
overflow: auto;
background: #636362;
padding: 0 0 20px 0px;
width: 290px;
height: 100%;
}
I'm not sure what you mean with "jerky and slow", because all scrollbars act the same. This is how I would resolve your issue:
HTML:
<div class="fixed">I'm fixed!</div>
<p>Rest of page</p>
CSS:
html, body {
/* make sure the page is at least height of viewport */
height: 100%;
}
body {
/* because the fixed div is no part of the flow,
make sure it is not overlapping the webpage */
padding: 0 0 0 100px;
}
.fixed {
height: 100%;
width: 100px;
left: 0;
position: fixed;
background: #e0e0e0;
/* only vertical-scrolling, but can be changed of course */
overflow-y: scroll;
}
JSfiddled Live example
Works in at least IE7, IE8 and Firefox.