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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"&gt;
<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>
+2  A: 

Might be overkill for your project, but Dean Edwards' IE7 javascript adds support for fixed positioning to IE6.

ceejayoz
A: 

Check Glish This should do close to what you're looking for.

Chuck
A: 

Try IE7.js. Should fix your problem without having to make any modifications.

Link: IE7.js

Cade
+1  A: 

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;

palotasb
A: 

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]-->
Mocky
A: 

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!