Floating navigation that acts like a fixed background picture

Hello!

I want a menu to be visible all the time, not scrolling when the text
around it gets too long. Something like this:
+------------+------+

TextTextText| Menu |
TextTextText| |
TextTextTextTextTex|
+-------------------+

Now two questions:
1. How do I do this?
2. If the positiong is absolute, is there any way to make the Text not
being hidden behind the menu?

Tom Tyler wrote:

I want a menu to be visible all the time, not scrolling when the text
around it gets too long. Something like this:

Now two questions:
1. How do I do this?

position: fixed.

Shame about MSIE really, but JavaScript hacks exist.

2. If the positiong is absolute, is there any way to make the Text not
being hidden behind the menu?

Same as absolute positioning. Make sure there isn't any text where its going
to go. A margin-right on the content is good in this case.

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*David Dorward* <dorward (AT) yahoo (DOT) com>:

position: fixed.

Shame about MSIE really, but JavaScript hacks exist.

Btw.: I'm curious, is there a ready to use .htc for that anywhere which one
could use with the proprietary 'behavior' property? I wouldn't though, fixed
positioning is neither that important nor very ergonomic in general.

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