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How can I make a div stick to the top of the screen once it's been scrolled to?

Asked 2009-08-01T07:54:31.580
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I would like to create a div, that is situated beneath a block of content but that once the page has been scrolled enough to contact its top boundary, becomes fixed in place and scrolls with the page.

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And here's how without jquery (UPDATE: see other answers where you can now do this with CSS only)

var startProductBarPos=-1;
window.onscroll=function(){
  var bar = document.getElementById('nav');
  if(startProductBarPos<0)startProductBarPos=findPosY(bar);

  if(pageYOffset>startProductBarPos){
    bar.style.position='fixed';
    bar.style.top=0;
  }else{
    bar.style.position='relative';
  }

};

function findPosY(obj) {
  var curtop = 0;
  if (typeof (obj.offsetParent) != 'undefined' && obj.offsetParent) {
    while (obj.offsetParent) {
      curtop += obj.offsetTop;
      obj = obj.offsetParent;
    }
    curtop += obj.offsetTop;
  }
  else if (obj.y)
    curtop += obj.y;
  return curtop;
}
* {margin:0;padding:0;}
.nav {
  border: 1px red dashed;
  background: #00ffff;
  text-align:center;
  padding: 21px 0;

  margin: 0 auto;
  z-index:10; 
  width:100%;
  left:0;
  right:0;
}

.header {
  text-align:center;
  padding: 65px 0;
  border: 1px red dashed;
}

.content {
  padding: 500px 0;
  text-align:center;
  border: 1px red dashed;
}
.footer {
  padding: 100px 0;
  text-align:center;
  background: #777;
  border: 1px red dashed;
}
<header class="header">This is a Header</header>
<div id="nav" class="nav">Main Navigation</div>
<div class="content">Hello World!</div>
<footer class="footer">This is a Footer</footer>

answered 2013-07-05T18:29:33.543

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