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Florian Müller
Florian Müller

Reputation: 7785

Position: fixed does not work in internet explorer

I just don't get it.

I got three simple rows for a website. Just those three:

<div style='height: 3000px; border: 10px dotted blue;'>
<div style='position: fixed; top: 100px; left: 100px; border: 2px dashed red; height: 100px; width: 100px;'></div>
</div>

Now can somebody please explain me, why the fixed inner div just does not stay where it is in Internet explorer? Works perfectly in Firefox...

Thank you for help!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3816

Answers (1)

Martin Hennings
Martin Hennings

Reputation: 16856

In general: If something's fishy in the way the Internet Explorer displays a web page, it might just be that it's in quirks mode.

A lot of times this happens because the DTD (=doctype declaration) was forgotten.

Try adding a DTD as well as a proper html page structure and it will probably fix your problem.

Although it's a Microsoft product, the Internet Explorer actually respects and follows standards if you do so as well.

Upvotes: 7

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