IE and scrollable divs

[Christopher Benson-Manica]

I have a page up at http://ataru.gomen.org/test.html with the
following style:
body {
margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
height: 100%; width: 100%;
}
div.left {
position: fixed; left: 0px; top: 0px; bottom: 0px; right: auto;
width: 141px; height: 100%; margin-top: 0px; margin-left: 0px;
}
div.top {
position: absolute; left: 141px; top: 0px; bottom: auto; right: 0px; height: 75px;
}
div.content {
position: absolute; left: 141px; top: 75px; bottom: 0px; right: 0px; overflow: scroll;
}

This all looks lovely in Opera, but IE refuses to render the content
div in any remotely intelligent way. Am I doing something wrong? If
not, is there any way to coerce IE into rendering what Opera renders,
short of using some obscene JavaScript hack?

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[Rijk van Geijtenbeek]

On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 04:06:46 +0000 (UTC), Christopher Benson-Manica
<at***@nospam.c yberspace.org> wrote:

I have a page up at http://ataru.gomen.org/test.html with the
following style:
body {
margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
height: 100%; width: 100%;
}
div.left {
position: fixed; left: 0px; top: 0px; bottom: 0px; right: auto;
width: 141px; height: 100%; margin-top: 0px; margin-left: 0px;
}
div.top {
position: absolute; left: 141px; top: 0px; bottom: auto; right: 0px;
height: 75px;
}
div.content {
position: absolute; left: 141px; top: 75px; bottom: 0px; right: 0px;
overflow: scroll;
}

This all looks lovely in Opera, but IE refuses to render the content
div in any remotely intelligent way. Am I doing something wrong? If
not, is there any way to coerce IE into rendering what Opera renders,
short of using some obscene JavaScript hack?

MSIE does not support 'position:fixed '. There are ways to get a 'fixed'
behavior, but that is not as simple as straigforward as the styles you
used.

http://devnull.tagsoup.com/fixed/
http://limpid.nl/lab/css/fixed/

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Rijk van Geijtenbeek

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It can absorb as much time as is required to ensure that you
won't get any real work done. - J.Nielsen

[Christopher Benson-Manica]

Rijk van Geijtenbeek <ri**@operaremo vethiz.com> spoke thus:

MSIE does not support 'position:fixed '.
I noticed :(
http://devnull.tagsoup.com/fixed/
http://limpid.nl/lab/css/fixed/

THANK YOU for those links, they look like exactly what I'm looking
for!

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Christopher Benson-Manica | I *should* know what I'm talking about - if I
ataru(at)cybers pace.org | don't, I need to know. Flames welcome.