How to get “position:fixed” css to work in IE 7+ with TRANSITIONAL doctype?

Question

I know that position:fixed; was not supported by IE until IE 7, and it only works in IE 7 if you have a STRICT DOCTYPE.

My question is: \"

Answer 1

You don't need a Strict DOCTYPE for fixed support. You only need a DOCTYPE that triggers Standards Mode (or ‘almost standards’). That can be a transitional doctype such as:

or XHTML:

as long as the system ID (the URI at the end) is included.

If your pages really are relying on Quirks Mode (ugh!), I'm sorry but you cannot use fixed and will have to resort to JavaScript hacks (but then you might need those for IE6 anyway).