HOWTO: Create a floating sidebar on the left (Minima)
It took me a while to get the floating sidebar on the left of this page working well so I decided to write this post in order to save others time and frustration. I made this tutorial for the Minima template but you could modify it in order to work with any template.
Add this:
/* Floating sidebar on left */
#fixedsidebar-wrapper {
position: fixed;
top: 75px;
left: 10px;
width: 100px;
float: left;
word-wrap: break-word; /* fix for long text breaking sidebar float in IE */
overflow: hidden; /* fix for long non-text content breaking IE sidebar float */
}
#big-wrapper {
margin: 0 150px 0 100px;
}
Below this:
#sidebar-wrapper {
width: 220px;
float: $endSide;
word-wrap: break-word; /* fix for long text breaking sidebar float in IE */
overflow: hidden; /* fix for long non-text content breaking IE sidebar float */
}
Then, to fix the page elements tab...
Add this:
/** Page structure tweaks for layout editor wireframe for floating sidebar on left **/
body#layout #outer-wrapper,
body#layout #header-wrapper,
body#layout #footer {
width: 500px;
padding: 0px;
}
body#layout #main-wrapper {
width: 300px;
}
body#layout #sidebar-wrapper {
width: 200px;
}
body#layout #newsidebar-wrapper {
width: 150px;
}
...below the previous code.
To remove the dotted line under widgets...
Add this:
#fixedsidebar.sidebar .widget {
border-bottom-width: 0 !important;
}
Below this:
.sidebar .widget, .main .widget {
border-bottom:1px dotted $bordercolor;
margin:0 0 1.5em;
padding:0 0 1.5em;
}
Then add <div id="big-wrapper"> just under <body>. This will make
sure that the floating sidebar will not overlap the other content.
Now in order to actually place the sidebar...
Add this:
<div id="fixedsidebar-wrapper">
<b:section class="sidebar" id="fixedsidebar" preferred="yes">
<b:widget id="NewProfile" locked="false" title="'About" type="Profile" />
</b:widget>
</b:section>
</div>
Below this:
<div id="content-wrapper">
<div id="crosscol-wrapper" style="">
<b:section class="crosscol" id="crosscol" showaddelement="no" />
</b:section>
</div>
Finally, add a </div> tag before the </body> tag to close the "big-wrapper"
This post is heavily based on this tutorial but creates a fixed (floating) sidebar instead of a sidebar that scrolls with the rest of the page.