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Loric
Loric

Reputation: 1708

HTML/CSS Make header and nav sticky on top of the page

Currently working on a web project, I would like to set up a sticky part on my website that could be always available. I tried different things but nothing worked.

My structure is like below

<body>
  <wrap>
    <header></header>
    <nav></nav>
    <container></container>
  </wrap>
  <footer></footer>
</body>

If you prefer a scheme, it's this link: http://s21.postimg.org/79tp8wu5z/structure_page.png

So I want to make my header nav and background (which is applied on body background) sticky on top of the page.

I know I need to use the fixed an relative position but nothing works except the background.

Here is my css:

body {
  background: url(img/bg.jpg) no-repeat center center;
  background-attachment: fixed;
  background-position: top;
}

.wrap {
  width: 960px;
  margin: 0 auto;
}

#header {
  height: 121px;
  position: relative;
}

#footer {
  height: 40px;
  background-color: #146992;
  position: relative;
}

.container {
  position:relative;
}

#menu {
  position:relative;
  height: 45px;
}

Thanks for your help.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 77121

Answers (3)

Trying Tobemyself
Trying Tobemyself

Reputation: 3668

You haven't fixed the position of the nav bar. Try using 

#nav
 {
 background-color:#262626;
 width:100%;
 height:50px;
 box-shadow: 0px 1px 50px #5E5E5E;
 position:fixed;
 top:0px;
}

Or you can use Twitter Bootstrap for startup.

Look here and here.

Upvotes: 11

husayt
husayt

Reputation: 15139

I have myself been looking into this problem. I have seen quite a few solutions and each of them had issues, often involving some magic numbers.

So using best practices from various sources I came up with a solution:

The thing i wanted to achieve specifically here was to get the main content to scroll between footer and header inside green area.

Here is working demo with source code: 

html, body {
    height:100%;
    margin:0;
    padding:0;
}
header {
    height: 4em;
    background-color:red;
    position:relative;
    z-index:1;
}
.content {
    background:white;
    position:absolute;
    top:5em;
    bottom:5em;
    overflow:auto;
}
.contentinner {

}
.container {
    height: 100%;
    margin: -4em 0 -2em 0;
    background:green;
    position:relative;
    overflow:auto;
}
footer {
    height: 2em;
    position:relative;
    z-index:1;
    background-color:yellow;
}
<header>Header Strip</header>
<div class="container">
    <div class="content">
    <div class="contentinner">
            <p>THIS IS WHERE THE CONTENT GOES</p>
            <p><a href="http://traceyspencer.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/css-sticky-header-and-footer-with.html" target="_blank">CLICK HERE for an explanation of this page</a>.</p>
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    </div>
</div>
<footer>This is the footer</footer>

Upvotes: 8

Sahib Singh
Sahib Singh

Reputation: 27

please don't use position fixed if you create a responsive website. because it creates a problem in Webkit browsers and iPhone & iPad. personally I suggest you to use Page Scroller this helps you to Easily and Smooth scroll for Client.

Upvotes: 0

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