smooth position:fixed in IE
February 20th, 2006
After many hours of searching and hacking I finally found this document explaining how to avoid a flickering position:fixed in IE. Most documents will simply say you need:
#dashboard{
position:fixed !important;
position:expression('absolute');
top:0px !important;
top:expression('body.scrollTop');
}
This is leaving out one important part. The solution that seems to work is to add a background fixed to the body tag
body{
background:url(foo) fixed;
}
Awesome!! I was fighting with a layout of mine and this was exactly what I needed. I did have to use this expression for the body tag as well (in css):
html body{
filter: expression(document.execCommand(“BackgroundImageCache”, false, true));
}
This would not stop the flicker for me until I put the css straight in the of the document. It doesn’t work as a