Unsurprisingly people have been trying to get browsers to support for that for years and years e.g. http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2002May/0153.h

Unsurprisingly people have been trying to get browsers to support for that for years and years e.g. http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2002May/0153.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2002May/0153.h... Of course it wasn't a use case of interest to the mighty browser vendor cabal so it has never been considered a priority. It does seem like it will be possible soon though with position:sticky https://air.mozilla.org/intern-presentation-ford/ https://air.mozilla.org/intern-presentation-ford/ We should probably prepare some sacrifice to the browser vendor gods to thank them for this small morsel they have thrown us.