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position fixed is not working

Asked 2013-06-02T04:21:15.803
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I have the following html...

<div class="header"></div>
<div class="main"></div>
<div class="footer"></div>

And following css...

.header{
position: fixed;
background-color: #f00;
height: 100px;
}
.main{
background-color: #ff0;
height: 700px;
}
.footer{
position: fixed;
bottom: 0;
background-color: #f0f;
height: 120px;}

But why the header and footer is not fixed, anything I did wrong? I want only "main" to be scrollable and "header" and "footer" to be at a fixed position. How to do?

+-------------------------------------+
|     header                          |  -> at fixed position (top of window)
+-------------------------------------+
|       main                          |
|                                     |
|                                     | -> scrollable as its contents
|                                     |    scroll bar is window scroll bar not of main
|                                     |
|                                     |
+-------------------------------------+
|         footer                      |  -> at fixed position (bottom of window)
+-------------------------------------+

See this fiddle

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2 Answers

1

You forgot to add the width of the two divs.

.header {
    position: fixed;
    top:0;
    background-color: #f00;
    height: 100px; width: 100%;
}
.footer {
    position: fixed;
    bottom: 0;
    background-color: #f0f;
    height: 120px; width:100%;
}

demo

answered 2013-06-02T04:27:57.257
1

You didn't add any width or content to the elements. Also you should set padding top and bottom to your main element so the content is not hidden behind the header/footer. You can remove the height as well and let the browser decide based on the content.

http://jsfiddle.net/BrmGr/12/

.header{
position: fixed;
background-color: #f00;
height: 100px;
    width:100%;
}
.main{
background-color: #ff0;
    padding-top: 100px;
    padding-bottom: 120px;
}
.footer{
position: fixed;
bottom: 0;
background-color: #f0f;
height: 120px;
    width:100%;}
answered 2013-06-02T04:30:48.003

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