I have a sidebar on my webpage that is supposed to span 100% of the page (vertically). It is then supposed to stay there, so when the rest of the content scrolls it does not. To do this, I used:
body
{
height: 100%;
}
#sidebar
{
height: 100%;
width: 120px;
position: fixed;
top: 0;
left: 0;
}
This works great in all modern browsers! Unfortunately, I have to code for IE6, which does not support position: fixed. Do you have any idea how I would do this?
This is the fix ยป
Me? I'd just as soon use a more common navigation method, or use (gasp) frames.
As stated here
First, put IE6 into "standards mode" by using a strict DOCTYPE. Note that IE6's standards mode is known for its extremely odd quirks. We are taking advantage of one now.
Use IE conditional comments to style the HTML and BODY tags like so:
html, body {height:100%; overflow:auto;}
Style anything you want to stay fixed as position:absolute.
Related
When you scroll with the mouse wheel in Windows 8 the fixed background image bounces around like crazy. This only affects IE 10 and IE 11. This affects elements with position:fixed as well.
Here is an example with a fixed background-image:
http://www.catcubed.com/test/bg-img-fixed.html
Here is example code:
#section{
position: fixed;
top:0;
left:0;
background-color:#eee;
background-position: top left;
background-image: url("images/7.png");
background-size: auto;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
z-index: 10;
}
Is there a solution to keep the background still in IE 10 and 11?
I know it is a bit late for an answer but I've had the same problem and was able to fix it by adding these attributes to my css file
html{
overflow: hidden;
height: 100%;
}
body{
overflow: auto;
height: 100%;
}
From the comments:
This solution stops scroll events from firing on the window, so do be careful if you're using anything that relies on such events firing. codepen.io/anon/pen/VawZEV?editors=1111 ( overflow: hidden, scroll events don't work) codepen.io/anon/pen/PNoYXY?editors=1111 ( overflow: auto, scroll events fire) - Dan Abrey
So this might cause some problems in your projects. But I don't see another way to workaround this bug in IE.
This looks like a z-index bug, try adding z-index: 1.
Looking into this, I've found the best way to debug is to:
Create a simple element at the top of the page, e.g.
<style>#test {position: fixed; background: red; top: 0; left: 0; width: 4em}</style>
<div id="test">Test</div>
In all the above cases, this works correctly, and the scroll is smooth. So this proves it can be done! Now slowly add your properties back in, until you are able to get the element with position fixed to work in the context of your site.
I then found that adding a z-index to the fixed items resolved the issue. (e.g. z-index: 1)
I also discovered that once a position is set on a child element, the bug presents it's self from that point down/onwards.
So you need to ensure none of the child elements have a position set,
or if they do, you explicitly set a position on each child.
E.g.
<!-- Works -->
<div style="position: fixed;">
<div>Nice</div>
<div>Wicked</div>
<div>Cool</div>
</div>
<!-- Element with position: relative, experiences the bug -->
<div style="position: fixed;">
<div style="position: relative;">sad</div>
<div>sad</div>
<div style="position: fixed;">happy</div>
</div>
It's fixable, but will require some tweaking!
Here is a workaround (tested on Windows 8.1):
Move the "background" CSS property to the BODY element. Currently it is on the DIV element with id="filler". Here is the resulting CSS:
body {
font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
background: #fff url(blue-kitty.jpg) no-repeat fixed center 100px;
}
#filler {
text-align: center;
}
.big-margin {
margin-top: 500px;
}
try to turn off smooth scrolling option.
Internet Options - Advenced Tab - Use Smooth Scrolling
it's like rendering bug.... MS IE team is investigating....
just simply define body container to relative.
<style>
body
{
position: relative;
}
</style>
The fix in my case was to simply remove the z-index property from the element that has position:fixed, IE then stopped the strange flickering.
(disabling smooth scrolling on IE options worked while having he z-index property but that's not a solution since users would most likely have it on by default).
Dear all, is there a way to scroll, as in relatively shift the contents of, an element without using javascript, and only using CSS?
If that matters, the element in question has overflow:hidden and white-space: nowrap to make it 'hide' some parts of its content. The element is normally scrollable with javascript, but needs to be properly shifted upon initial rendering (and without further interactive scrolling, of course) in case javascript is disabled.
No, there is no way to scroll items on a page (unless it's an iframe with the hash portion of the url included, in which case the browser will control the initial positioning of the scroll, not css or html) using only CSS and HTML.
No. Not with CSS directly.
You could simulate it, by wrapping the contents with a div and giving it a margin-top value for the amount of scrolling you want.
(remember to remove it/set it to 0 with javascript when it is enabled)
update
A cool idea is what Jamie, mentions in his answer, if it fits your requirements.
update 2
Here is another solution i created out of Jamie's idea, that needs no frames.
Put an anchor <a name="anchor_name">..</a> at the place you want the scrolling to be and use a
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="2;url=#anchor_name_here">
to auto-scroll there. (the meta element should go in the head though for (x)html conformance)
example at http://www.jsfiddle.net/gaby/f3CVY/5/
works great in all browsers i tested it (IE, Chrome, FF, Opera, Safari)
There is also another method - which is quite hacky - but it works without a reload.
The solution I've created works in the following browsers:
Firefox 4+
Safari 5+
Chrome 6+
Opera 11+
IE 10+
Android 2.3+
It's really a bit hacky, so see whether you would use it or not. :)
A little explanation
I used the HTML5 attribute autofocs on an <input>-field. As this will focus the input, it has to get it into the viewport. Therefor it will scroll to the given position. To get rid of the highlighted outline and to not see the input at all, you have to set some styles. But this still forced Safari to have one blinking pixel, so I did the trick with the span, that acts like an overlay. Note that you can't simply use display: none as this won't trigger the autofocus (only tested this in Safari).
Demo
Try before buy
The demo will run in Safari and Chrome only. IE and Firefox seem to not fire autofocus in an <iframe>.
CSS
div.outer {
height: 100px;
width: 100px;
overflow: auto;
}
div.inner {
position: relative;
height: 500px;
width: 500px;
}
div.inner > input {
width: 1px;
height:1px;
position: absolute;
z-index: 0;
top: 300px;
left: 200px;
border:0;
outline:0;
}
div.inner > span {
width: 1px;
height:1px;
position: absolute;
z-index: 1;
top: 300px;
left: 200px;
background: white;
}
HTML
<div class="outer">
<div class="inner">
<input type="text" autofocus></input>
<span></span>
</div>
</div>
I would like to have an IFRAME dynamically sized using the following CSS:
#myiframe {
position: absolute;
top: 0;
bottom: 0;
left: 0;
right: 0;
}
However, no browser seems to support this.
In good browsers I could wrap the IFRAME in a DIV with the quoted CSS style and set the height & width of the IFRAME to 100%. But this does not work in IE7. Short of using CSS expressions, has anyone managed to solve this?
Update
MatTheCat answered with a scenario that works if the IFRAME is located directly under the body and the body/html tags have height: 100% set. In my original question I did not state where the IFRAME was and what styling applied to it's container. Hopefully the following addresses this:
<html>
<body>
<div id="container"><iframe id="myiframe"></iframe></div>
</body>
</html>
and let's assume the following container CSS:
#container {
position: absolute;
top: 10px;
bottom: 10px;
left: 10px;
right: 10px;
}
if you now place height: 100% on the IFRAME it will not size correctly.
Use a div for the padding on all sides. Place the iframe in it using 100% of its parent div.
http://jsfiddle.net/sg3s/j8sbX/
Now there are a few things you need to remember. An iframe is originally an inline-frame, so while modern browsers don't care, set display:block on it. By default it also has a border. Any stying we want to be done needs to be done on the iframe container instead or we'll break the 100% container boundry.
And this is how we would put an element above it:
http://jsfiddle.net/sg3s/j8sbX/25/ (edit: my bad, you actually need to set border=0 on the iframe for IE7)
Should work fine in IE7+ (IE6 doesn't like absolute positioning + using top/right/bottom/left to give it layout)
Edit Some extra explanation
We need to style the iframe container mainly because an iframe on itself doesn't let itself be sized with top/left/bottom/right. But what will work is setting its width and height to 100%. So starting from there we simply wrap the iframe in an element which we can reliably style to make less than the window 100%, the size which elements default to when none of their parents have a static height/width.
Thinking about it we can actually drop the absolute and block. http://jsfiddle.net/sg3s/j8sbX/26/ Might want to doublecheck IE7 on that though.
After we make the iframe 100% high and wide we cannot put any margin, padding, or border on it because that will be added to the already 100% height & width. Thus making it larger than its container, for divs that will result in an overflow:visible, simply showing everything going over the edges. But that in turn would mess up the margins, paddings and offsets we gave our elements.... In fact to make it be only the 100% height and width you have to make sure you removed the iframes default border.
Try it out by adding a larger border (like 3px) in my example to the iframe, you should easily be able to see how it's affecting the layout.
Why don't you use height & width? You'd still get an absolute position by setting top/bottom & left/right, as in the example below.
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
html, body {
margin:0;
padding:0;
border:0px;
height:100%;
width:100%;
}
#container {
position: absolute;
top: 10px;
bottom: 10px;
left: 10px;
right: 10px;
}
#myiframe {
position: absolute;
top: 0%;
left: 0%;
height: 100%;
width: 100%;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="container"><iframe id="myiframe"></iframe></div>
</body>
</html>
This works for me (Tested on IE9).
html,body {
margin:0;
padding:0;
height:100%;
min-height:100%;
}
#myiframe {
width:100%;
height:100%;
border:0;
}
work fine for me even with IE7.
I would say take a look at this stack overflow question. It might help:
Make Iframe to fit 100% of container's remaining height
You can try to use this:
document.getElementsByTagName('iframe')[1].style.borderWidth = '0px';
document.getElementsByTagName('iframe')[1].style.backgroundColor = 'green';
it can be done using javascript, but with CSS alone, is it possible to style a div to overlap exactly any page's document content or viewport (to apply an opaque gray layer on the page)? since a page can have margin for it body element, so styling a div to the width of its body element won't do. (needs to work in IE 6 too)
IF you have a <div> like this:
<div id="cover"></div>
These styles should do it:
#cover {
background-color: #ccc;
opacity: 0.6;
filter:alpha(opacity=60);
position: absolute;
top: 0;
left: 0;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
}
Tested on a page where the body has a margin and it covered the entire viewport for me on IE and FF.
height: 100% won't cover the viewport if document length is less than height of viewport. In this case you will have to use Javascript.
would it be cheating to use IE's ability to execute javascript in CSS?
width:expression(document.body.clientWidth)
I have an IE6 absolute position div that I want to be full screen (100% width and height). It's being used as a "loading, please wait" message while the data loads on the page.
It appears that ie6 does not recognize the css of "height:100%".
Any work arounds?
Also, in some older browsers you need to set the height of the html tag as well:
body, html {
height: 100%;
}
Height 100% on a div needs it's parent to also have a height defined in IE6. Try this:
body{
height:100%;
}
Also, and this might have flaws of its own, you could do the following:
#fullScreenDiv {position: absolute;
top: 0;
bottom: 0;
left: 0;
right: 0;
}
It'll maybe screw with nested components and their floats and so forth, but it would definitely, with a doctype, make the div full screen.