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Fixed Positioning in IE 6

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* { margin:0; padding:0; }
html, body {
   height: 100%;
}
body #fixedElement {
   position:fixed !important;
   position: absolute; /*ie6 and above*/
   top: 0;
   right: 0;
}
#page-wrap {
    width: 600px;
    margin: 0 auto; 
    font: 16px/2 Georgia, Serif;
}

The 100% height on the body and html stuff is in case you want to do fixed positioning along the bottom edge of the browser window.

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  1. Hitesh Chavda
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    Look like doe’t work on IE6

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  2. FJ
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    or you do it over expressions.. like this:

    * html #element{
		position: absolute; left: 0px; top: 0px;
		left: expression( ( 0 + ( ignoreMe2 = document.documentElement.scrollLeft ? document.documentElement.scrollLeft : document.body.scrollLeft ) ) + 'px' );
		top: expression( ( 0 + ( ignoreMe = document.documentElement.scrollTop ? document.documentElement.scrollTop : document.body.scrollTop ) ) + 'px' );		
}

    this is for position fixet on TOP

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    • Mathiyalagan
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      this code working for me. thanks dude. IE 6 problem finished.

  3. Tony
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    This tutorial saved my life. I didn’t think this was possible in IE6. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

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  4. amtyera
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    Sorry. Not working in IE6

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  5. Shaz3e
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    Not working for me too

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  6. cooljaz124
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    It seems not working. Also, Is there any way to achieve the position:fixed effect for a div which have to be kept some distance from bottom , and not from top.

    Even, a jQuery solution will do. Thanks in advance.

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  7. Thierry Koblentz
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    As FJ mentioned (10/25/2009) it is possible to do it with CSS expression, but with some extra hack to get a smooth scrolling:

    http://www.css-101.org/fixed-positioning/05.php

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  8. Kush
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    You can use _position:absolute; along with position:fixed so that only ie will process that absolute part and rest of the browsers won’t even read it.

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