Persistent sidebar?

peehskcalba

Okay Javascript wizzes, this one's for you (or anyone else who wants to try their hand)!

Is there any way to make the sidebar content float up and down, in a persistent fashion, always following the user's scrolling?

Thanks, Peehskcalba

P.S. Perhaps something vaguely like this?

bcbounders

on 1215939624:

Okay Javascript wizzes, this one's for you (or anyone else who wants to try their hand)!

Is there any way to make the sidebar content float up and down, in a persistent fashion, always following the user's scrolling?

Thanks, Peehskcalba

P.S. Perhaps something vaguely like this?

Peehskcalba,

It wouldn't have that cool "bouncy" reset (where you can scroll down the page faster than the sidebar and then it catches up), but if you used a CSS position of Fixed ([-- corrected from Static, which I was wrong about), you could achieve the same effect. Just determine the distance from one of the top/bottom and one of the left/right and it will just stay there, with everything else scrolling by.

This SHOULD work... but there may be some browser inconsistencies... like IE6 may not behave correctly, just not sure.

Anyone else? Thoughts?

aoimedia.co.uk

position: fixed;

...when applied to sidebar/navbar selector should fix the element.
However, a little more work might be needed to make it look and behave exactly as you require.

Kind regards
John

bcbounders

I haven't tested this myself, but here's a link to a solution for getting the "position:fixed" to work for IE6:

http://www.cssplay.co.uk/layouts/fixed.html

Hope this works for you.

peehskcalba

No dice.

I'm using the Monsters theme.

I'm using this custom CSS:

#sidebarContent #content {
position: fixed;
}

Any fixes?

bcbounders

Can you post a link to the site online so we can have a look at the code?

peehskcalba

on 1216200830:

Can you post a link to the site online so we can have a look at the code?

http://example.com/portfolio Eventually, I'll list more projects I've done.

Thanks,
Peehskcalba

P.S. John, nice hardware you've got there! I'm on an iBook G3 (Icebook) running Tiger.

WebKarnage

Hi Peehskcalba,

I am not sure you'll get this to work while you have a header above the sidebar, and a footer below it. Your theme's structure might have to be different.

with best regards,
Karn.