KarenArt — Wed, 11 Aug 2004 14:10:36 +0000

Well you'd actually want to add a DOCTYPE to knock IE out of quirks mode and into "standards" mode'

Oops sorry... my bad. You're right!
I think I'm doing more harm than good here.

Dragon of Ice, I know you probably don't want to hear this but I think you're going to be much more satisfied if you put up some test pages and "play" with the coding yourself. Find a page that uses a fixed division AND that works on your version of IE. copy the code and play with it. Figure out what they're doing to make it stay stuck.

I think it's important to have people (like the ones at this forum) to turn to when you get stuck with a problem, but you've got to be willing to do the experiments yourself.

Megan — Wed, 11 Aug 2004 13:19:34 +0000

Is this what you're looking for?

http://www.meganjack.com/uw_courses/css/lear1.1.html

I don't entirely understand it myself but it works!

JeevesBond — Wed, 11 Aug 2004 12:46:04 +0000

Well you'd actually want to add a DOCTYPE to knock IE out of quirks mode and into "standards" mode, I'm not sure which versions of IE this affects, certainly 6 but I'm not sure about 5/5.5 (and naturally IE still doesn't support standards - you know what I mean!)

Karen is right, IE is a pain. But it's always helpful to specify what you want and give us code straight away!
I'm still not sure of what you're trying to do, it seems you're trying to absolutely position an element or is it the background for the element you're trying to position?

Specify!

KarenArt — Wed, 11 Aug 2004 03:21:41 +0000

Ok... I have to do a clean install of IE to get it working again on my computer, so I can't check this for you.
Try this...

In the head section of your html document add

<!--[if IE 6]>
   <style type="text/css">
   /*<![CDATA[*/ 
html {overflow-x:auto; overflow-y:hidden;}
   /*]]>*/
   </style>
<![endif]-->

In your css file in the div.sidebar part
delete float: right;
and add

display: block; 
top: 230px; 
right: 10px;
position: fixed;

Add this to your css page
* html div.sidebar {position:absolute;}'

See if that does you any good.
I think you may also need to set your doctype to kick IE into quirks mode, but I'm not positive about that.
If the above doesn't work try adding

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" >
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="application/xhtml+xml; charset=UTF-8" />

'
to the top of your html file.
It's a good idea to have a doctype on your page anyway.

*Edited to fix code (I hope)

Dragon of Ice — Wed, 11 Aug 2004 02:45:35 +0000

I'm trying to fix the sidebar (navigation) div, and i want it positioned exactly where it is. I beleive the math works out to about 230px.

KarenArt — Wed, 11 Aug 2004 02:15:53 +0000

Which div are you trying to fix and where do you want it positioned?

Dragon of Ice — Wed, 11 Aug 2004 02:08:20 +0000

The site can be found at http://www.angeltowns2.com/members/bassdesigns/mike/

KarenArt — Wed, 11 Aug 2004 00:45:35 +0000

I just thought of something... what version of IE are you trying to hack for?
This hack works for IE 6. I don't think it does a thing for 5.5.

KarenArt — Wed, 11 Aug 2004 00:27:46 +0000

What is it you want to do with your div?
Do you have a page or code to look at so we can help?

Dragon of Ice — Tue, 10 Aug 2004 23:47:27 +0000

I want a div to be fixed, not a background