Title: Fixed Background?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Fixed Background?

 *  [TMo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tmo/)
 * (@tmo)
 * [21 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fixed-background/)
 * Is there something I have to hack to get IE to recognize a fixed background?
   
   In FF, the site looks as it should, both the body and rap backgrounds stay fixed.
   In IE they scroll with the page. I’m sure I’ve seen fixed backgrounds in IE before,
   not sure what I’m doing wrong. [http://tekmonki.com](http://tekmonki.com)

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 *  [jonimueller](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jonimueller/)
 * (@jonimueller)
 * [21 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fixed-background/#post-98841)
 * That baffles me other than to tell you that AFAIK, IE6 only supports fixed images
   in the BODY element, not anywhere else (e.g., #rap, as you have it in your stylesheet).
   
   This may help you: [http://www.mantasoft.co.uk/articles/dynamic-expressions.php](http://www.mantasoft.co.uk/articles/dynamic-expressions.php)
   But I have a stylesheet that has a fixed background image and it stays put in
   IE6. Go here: [http://www.webjones.org/wordpress/](http://www.webjones.org/wordpress/)
   and choose the “Charlize” skin. If you view it in IE6, you see that it stays 
   static in the viewport (browser window). Hope that first link helps you out. 
   FWIW, your site looks fine in IE6 with the backgrounds scrolling, which is their
   normal behavior anyway. I mean, the site doesn’t look BAD.
 *  Thread Starter [TMo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tmo/)
 * (@tmo)
 * [21 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fixed-background/#post-98843)
 * Yeah, it looks “ok”, but I want it as I want it. = ]
    I remember reading somewhere
   that you can only do it on body in IE now that you mention it. Maybe the one 
   in the rap is confusing poor stupid IE. I’ll check that link out, thanks.
 *  [jonimueller](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jonimueller/)
 * (@jonimueller)
 * [21 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fixed-background/#post-98846)
 * Well, I downoaded your stylesheet and played around with it, and I couldn’t get
   it to behave the way it does in Firefox, which is as you wish it to be.
    In other
   words, I thought of that issue, too, about IE only recognizing fixed backgrounds
   in BODY. So I made your background in #rap attachment: scroll, hoping that would
   at least cause the background-attachment: fixed in BODY to behave properly, but
   it did not. Believe me, I know how frustrating this can be. Hang in there and
   hopefully someone with more CSS knowlede than I have will come along and bail
   you out! And as for your statement, _Yeah, it looks “ok”, but I want it as I 
   want it._, you must understand (and it took me a LONG TIME to come to terms with
   it myself) that styles are just SUGGESTIONS to the different browsers. The best
   we can hope for is that the design renders properly, doesn’t break or crash the
   browser, and looks somewhat (!) like the designer intended it, or at the very
   least, is readable. I was trying to offer you some bit of comfort in the fact
   that it still looked great in IE, those backgrounds just weren’t staying put!
   I realize that’s not what you want to hear right now. I’m going to monitor this
   thread because I am interested in any solutions someone can come up with. Good
   luck!
 *  [Root](https://wordpress.org/support/users/root/)
 * (@root)
 * [21 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fixed-background/#post-98850)
 * Well [these guys ](http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/fixedBackground.html) have got
   some sort of fix but it is messy.

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 * Last reply from: [Root](https://wordpress.org/support/users/root/)
 * Last activity: [21 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fixed-background/#post-98850)
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