{"id":42,"date":"2004-11-23T12:52:18","date_gmt":"2004-11-23T17:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=42"},"modified":"2004-11-23T12:56:58","modified_gmt":"2004-11-23T17:56:58","slug":"fixed-positioning-for-ie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graphics-muse.org\/wp\/?p=42","title":{"rendered":"Fixed Positioning for IE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I did a little research this morning and found some potential fixes to the fixed positioning problems under IE.  There is <a href=\"http:\/\/devnull.tagsoup.com\/fixed\/\">Eric Bednarz&#8217;s<\/a> solution, which includes references to using <a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/workshop\/author\/dhtml\/overview\/ccomment_ovw.asp\">IE&#8217;s conditional comments<\/a> to load appropriate CSS styles.  And then there is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webmasterworld.com\/forum83\/560.htm\">a thread form 2003<\/a> on WebmasterWorld.com that gives specific code to address the issue.  Apparently this issue has been around for awhile, as most of the comments I&#8217;ve seen on the subject were from 2002 and 2003.  Strange that Eric Meyer doesn&#8217;t discuss it more prominently in his texts, however.  Maybe I just missed it.<\/p>\n<p>The good news is that the problem is addressable using ordinary CSS styles and little else, though the conditional comments are a bit of a hack.  I&#8217;m trying to avoid using Javascript for any of my pages related to styles.  I think Javascript should be used for application computing and not styling.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve chosen to use the code from WebMasterWorld.com&#8217;s forums to try and solve my problems with the CSS I&#8217;ve created for my WP blog.  Although it seems to work fine under Firefox under Linux, I have yet to try it out under Windows and IE.  I don&#8217;t run Windows at work, so I&#8217;ll have to wait till I get home to test it.  I&#8217;m also not too concerned if this doesn&#8217;t work in other or older browsers.  Supporting IE5 and newer along with Firefox covers my target audience pretty well, though I supposed I should make sure Safari works too.  I just don&#8217;t have access (anywhere) to a Mac.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did a little research this morning and found some potential fixes to the fixed positioning problems under IE. There is Eric Bednarz&#8217;s solution, which includes references to using IE&#8217;s conditional comments to load appropriate CSS styles. And then there is a thread form 2003 on WebmasterWorld.com that gives specific code to address the issue. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[635,619],"class_list":{"0":"post-42","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-art-and-graphics","7":"tag-java","8":"tag-linux","9":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pe9t8-G","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graphics-muse.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graphics-muse.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graphics-muse.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graphics-muse.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graphics-muse.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.graphics-muse.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graphics-muse.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graphics-muse.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graphics-muse.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}