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id: howto-css-sticky-element
title: "How To - Sticky Element"
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created_at: 2026-07-04
updated_at: 2026-07-04
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# [[HOWTO CSS Sticky Element]]

## 🎯 한 줄 통찰 (One-line insight)
`position: sticky` is a HYBRID of the two positioning models this cookbook has already covered separately — it behaves like `position: relative` (occupying its normal place in the document flow) until the scroll position reaches the specified offset (`top: 0`), at which point it switches to behave like `position: fixed` (pinned to the viewport) — meaning it's not a third independent positioning scheme but a scroll-triggered TOGGLE between the two schemes already used in `[[HOWTO CSS Fixed Menu]]` and ordinary flow layout. [S1]

## 🧠 핵심 개념 (Core concepts)
- **`position: sticky`** — toggles between `relative` and `fixed` behavior depending on scroll position. [S1]
- **Requires an offset property** — at least one of `top`, `right`, `bottom`, or `left` MUST be specified, or sticky positioning does nothing. [S1]
- **Browser support caveat** — explicitly noted to NOT work in Internet Explorer or Edge 15 and earlier. [S1]

## 📖 세부 내용 (Details)
- Minimal example: `div.sticky { position: sticky; top: 0; }`. [S1]

## ⚖️ 모순 및 업데이트 (Contradictions & updates)
- **relative와 fixed 사이를 스크롤에 따라 토글하는 하이브리드**: `[[HOWTO CSS Fixed Menu]]`에서 확인된 순수 `position: fixed`와 달리, sticky는 스크롤 위치가 지정된 오프셋에 도달하기 전에는 일반 흐름(relative)을 따르다가 그 지점부터 fixed처럼 고정된다는 점이 두 방식의 결합으로 확인됨. [S1]

## 🛠️ 적용 사례 (Applied in summary)
현재 발견된 실제 적용 사례가 없습니다 — top:0 오프셋을 지정한 최소 sticky 예제가 원문에서 제시됨. [S1]

## 💻 코드 패턴 (Code patterns)
Sticky positioning — toggles between relative and fixed on scroll (CSS):
```css
div.sticky {
  position: sticky;
  top: 0; /* at least one offset is required */
}
```

## ✅ 검증 상태 및 신뢰도
- **상태:** draft
- **검증 단계:** conceptual
- **출처 신뢰도:** B (W3Schools — widely used educational reference)
- **신뢰 점수:** 0.84
- **중복 검사 결과:** 신규 생성 (New discovery)

## 🔗 지식 그래프 (Knowledge Graph)
- **상위/루트:** [[W3Schools HOW TO]]
- **관련 개념:** [[HOWTO CSS Fixed Menu]], [[HOWTO CSS Sticky Social Bar]], [[HOWTO JS Navbar Sticky]]
- **참조 맥락:** CSS Layout & Positioning 섹션.

## 📚 출처 (Sources)
- [S1] W3Schools — How To - Sticky Element — https://www.w3schools.com/howto/howto_css_sticky_element.asp

## 📝 변경 이력 (Change history)
- 2026-07-04: Initial draft synthesized from the W3Schools "How To - Sticky Element" recipe (Astra wiki-curation, P-Reinforce v3.1 format).