Thanks Klaus, I just forgot about the css support of ie 7, i guess im going back to my 1990's memories of the spyware adverts on the screen.
thank you very much. Robin On Jan 28, 10:14 am, Klaus Hartl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 27, 9:19 pm, robing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > Is it possible to keep an element visible in the viewport even when > > the page has been scrolled, so as you scroll the page the header (for > > example) either gets bumped down or becomes visible when the scrolling > > stops? > > I know this can be done in frames but I would rather use jquery. > > > any help would be appreciated. > > > Robin > > Simple CSS does the job here: > > #header { > position: fixed; > top: 0; > > } > > This will also look much smoother than constantly repositioning via > JS. Note that IE 6 needs some extra trickery to make that work - it > doesn't support fixd > positioning:http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/fixedPosition.html > > --Klaus