I needed a quick and easy way to have a container hover on the side of a page and update with details as the user selected options. This is a simple, jQuery-based approach to doing so. Note that the portion at the end is included if you are needing to fire the positioning from a repost in asp.net, in this instance I needed to do so as the floating container was only displayed and filled via an async event when the user selected their first item.
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<style>
#oHeader {height:200px;width:100%;background:lightyellow;margin-bottom:20px;} /* Not needed */
#oAnchorObject {height:2000px;width:450px;background:lightgreen;} /* Not needed */
#oSidebar {position:fixed;left:500px;border:1px solid #ff0000;padding:40px} /* Position and left or right value needed */
</style>
<script src="jquery.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function () {
RepositionCard();
});
$(window).scroll(function () {
RepositionCard();
});
function RepositionCard() {
try{
var eTop = $('#oAnchorObject').offset().top;
if (eTop - $(window).scrollTop() <= 1) {
$("#oSidebar").css("top", 0);
}
else {
$("#oSidebar").css("top", eTop - $(window).scrollTop());
}
}
catch(err) {}
}
</script>
<div id="oHeader">
Here is some header content to show how the locking works
</div>
<div id="oAnchorObject">
Here is your large content block to which the sidebar will orient
</div>
<div id="oSidebar">
This will hover/stick
</div>
Optional for firing the client event after ajax postback from C#, use in page load where needed:
ScriptManager.RegisterClientScriptBlock(Page, typeof(Page), "MyScript", "RepositionCard();", true);