Question

I have a fixed navbar using curved ribbon images that have transparent bits above and below the actual ribbon and I have a scaling full size background (so I can’t make a navbar with a matching background at the top). I would like the page content to disappear behind the ribbon, halfway through the navbar as the user is scrolling.

It’s the same problem as these two questions and the answers (which are good) aren’t working for me.

Hide scrollable content behind transparent fixed position divs when scrolling the page?

Hide Scrolling Content Under Transparent Header

This is what I don’t want:

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/213/badnr.jpg/

This is kind of what I want but without the scrollbars:

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/534/scrolled.jpg/

Thanks in advance for any help, it’s greatly appreciated, this site has and will continue to teach me a lot.

Answer 1

The css z-index attribute should do the trick to place any element in front of or behind another element. Like so:

<style type="text/css">
 body, html {
margin:0 auto;
padding:0;
font-family:Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;
font-size:12px;
 }
/* Header Styling */
 #header {
color:#FFF;
background: url(/images/header-back.png) repeat-x;
position:fixed;
top:0;
left:0;
width:100%;
height:50px;
z-index:1;
  }

#headerWrap {
width:1024px;
margin:0 auto;
height:50px;
}
/* Sub Header */
#subHeader {
position:fixed;
top:50px;
margin:0 auto;
z-index:1;
 }
 #subHeaderWrap {
height:30px;
width:830px;
border-bottom:thin solid #333;
background: url(../images/subheader.png) repeat-x;
  }
  /* Contaier */
  #container {
margin:0 auto;
width:1024px;   
min-height:600px;
   }
   #containerWrap {
margin-top:50px;

   }

   /* Menu */
  #sidebar {
float:left;
width:140px;
min-height:600px;
  }
  #content {
border-left:#333333 solid thin;
border-right:#333333 solid thin;
border-bottom:#333333 solid thin;
float:left;
width:830px;
min-height:600px;
padding-top:30px;
margin-bottom:10px;
  }
 #contentWrap {
width:830px;
margin:0 auto;
padding-bottom:10px;
 }
 </style>
<div id="container">
<div id="header" style="z-index:1;"/* Places div on top */">
This is transparent.
</div>

<div id="containerWrap">
    <div id="sidebar">
Menu Items Here
    </div>

<div id="content">
    <div id="contentWrap">

<div id="subHeader" style="z-index:1;"/* Places div on top */">
<div id="subHeaderWrap">
This div is transparent too, but is now on top.
</div>
</div>

Anything here is scrollable and will scroll under the divs above with z-index:1;


    </div>
</div>