Twitter Style Fixed Header using CSS ~ Web Speaks

It would be really tempting to implement Twitter style fixed header menu in your web pages. But it can become a headache for you because of cross browser CSS issues. The bad guy IE always makes the mischief. So I have tried to create a good looking header that looks like that of Twitter. Hope it will help you beautifying you web pages. Take a look at it...

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HTML Markup

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<title>WebSpeaks.in</title>
</head>
<body>
<div id="head">
   <div id="logo">
    <a href="#"></a>
   </div>
   <form style="display:inline;">
    <input style="margin-top:3px;" class="searchbox" type="text"/>
   </form>
 <ul>
  <li>
   <a href="#" title="Home">Home</a> 
  <li>
  <li>
   <a href="#" title="Profile">Profile</a> 
  </li>
  <li>
   <a href="#" title="Profile">Messages</a> 
  </li>
  <li>
   <a href="#" title="Profile">Who To Follow</a> 
  </li>
 </ul>
 

</div>
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 </div>
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</body>

</html>

CSS Code

html {
 height:100%; /* fix height to 100% for IE */
 max-height:100%; /* fix height for other browsers */
 padding:0; /*remove padding */
 margin:0; /* remove margins */
 border:0; /* remove borders */
 background:#fff; /*color background - only works in IE */
 /* hide overflow:hidden from IE5/Mac */
 /* \*/
 overflow:hidden; /*get rid of scroll bars in IE */
 /* */
}
body {
 height:100%;
 max-height:100%;
 overflow:hidden;
 padding:0;
 margin:0;
 border:0;
    font: 13px/1.5 Helvetica Neue,Arial,Helvetica,'Liberation Sans',FreeSans,sans-serif;
}
#content {
 display:block;
 height:100%;
 max-height:100%;
 overflow:auto;
 padding-left:100px;
 position:relative;
 z-index:3;
 word-wrap:break-word;
 top:45px;
}
#head {
 position:absolute;
 margin:0;
 top:0;
 display:block;
 width:100%;
 height:40px;
    -moz-box-shadow: 0 1px 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5);
 background:#333333;
    background: -moz-linear-gradient(center top , #333333, #111111) repeat scroll 0 0 transparent;
}
#logo a {
    background: url("twitter_logo_right.png") no-repeat scroll 20px 9px transparent;
    color: #FFFFFF;
    display: block;
    height: 40px;
    margin-right: 5px;
    outline: medium none;
    text-indent: -9999px;
    width: 140px;
 float:left;
}
.searchbox{
    -moz-border-radius: 4px 4px 4px 4px;
    -moz-box-shadow: 0 1px 0 #444444;
    background: none repeat scroll 0 0 #666666;
    border: 1px solid black;
    color: #CCCCCC;
    font: 13px Arial,sans-serif;
    padding: 6px 25px 4px 6px;
    width: 215px;
 float:left;
}

.searchbox:focus {
    background: none repeat scroll 0 0 #eeeeee;
    border: 1px solid #999999;
}
#head ul {
  margin:0;
  padding:0;
  background:transparent;
  height:100%;
  margin-left:60px;
  padding-left:60px;
  padding-top:10px;
}
#head ul li {  display:inline;}
#head ul li a { padding-left:20px;  color:#BABABA; text-decoration:none;}
#head ul li a:hover { color:#FFFFFF;  }

table tr td{height:100px; width:300px; -moz-border-radius:12px; background-color:#C6C6C6; margin:botton:30px;}
table tr td a{color: #007B9F; font-size:1.5em; text-decoration:none;}