Objects scrolling over sticky elements

[Ed S.]

So I have a navigation bar that scrolls to the top and sticks. This works flawlessly. However, when you continue scrolling down the page, images, slideshows, etc. scroll over the top of the navigation bar. I've made sure that the nav elements are on the top of the layer. I even tried moving them to a layer above the Mouse Off layer.

Am I missing something here? Thanks in advance for any help!

[Egg Bramhill]

I can't understand this Ed. Nav bars by default are alway on the top, even if you have a layer above the Mouse Over layer, the Nav Bar will still display above it on preview. Beyond this, if you've set the Nav Bar to stick to top it again defaults to always on top.

Can you supply a web/xar file showing your problem?

[Ed S.]

So I have a navigation bar that scrolls to the top and sticks. This works flawlessly. However, when you continue scrolling down the page, images, slideshows, etc. scroll over the top of the navigation bar. I've made sure that the nav elements are on the top of the layer. I even tried moving them to a layer above the Mouse Off layer.

Am I missing something here? Thanks in advance for any help!

Thanks for the reply, Egg. See attached. You're correct -- objects don't scroll over the navbar itself. But they do scroll over the background made for the navbar.

[Acorn]

Thanks for the reply, Egg. See attached. You're correct -- objects don't scroll over the navbar itself. But they do scroll over the background made for the navbar.

Just add a Sticky, Stretched white rectangle above the navbar.

Acorn

[gwpriester]

This seems like a bug but here is how you can work around it.

Send the photo to the back.

Select your gray rectangle that is set to stretch and turn off stretching.

Clone that gray rectangle, set it to stretch, full width, and send it to the back.

Also, the buttons for your nav bar are both on the mouse off layer. I fixed this. Have a look.

[Egg Bramhill]

Good workaround Gary.

[Egg Bramhill]

I don't think it's a bug however. The Sticky/Stretchy window states Stretch Properties:

'Stretchy objects appear behind the main page content, unless they are sticky.'

So 'stick at top' keeps the object behind the main content, Sticky on the other hand brings it to the front.

Thus you workaround overcomes this.

[xtom]

I just encountered this problem and would consider it a bug or at least something that should be improved.

Garys workaround is good but if you apply a link the photo and give it a mouseover you will see how mouseovers appear over "Stick to top" objects (unlike "Sticky"). This doesn't look good on a site so I'm going to avoid using "Stick to top" in favour of "Sticky" because most web pages will have mouse over photos/buttons/objects on the page.

Really I think "Stick to top" should behave like "Sticky" with standard mouseoff and mouseovers.

[gwpriester]

I also observed if you have a horizontal nav bar and you increase the space between the buttons, even if you have the two rectangles described in my work around, the background shows between the gap between the buttons. I know there might a logical explanation for this but it is not behaving as a user, or at least this user, would expect.

[Egg Bramhill]

I also observed if you have a horizontal nav bar and you increase the space between the buttons, even if you have the two rectangles described in my work around, the background shows between the gap between the buttons. I know there might a logical explanation for this but it is not behaving as a user, or at least this user, would expect.

Stick to top can be applied to more than one object, so to avoid the gaps, give the nav bar a background rectangle set to stick to top.

I agree with xtom's comment though, the mouse-over state appearing above the stick to top objects is very off-putting. See the attached.