“My sticky navbar scrolls away with the page”
- Likely cause
- A parent has overflow set to hidden, so sticky sticks to a box that never scrolls.
- First check
- Walk up the Navigator from the navbar and read each parent’s Overflow.
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Sticky not working in Webflow? Look one level up
A parent with overflow set to hidden turns itself into the scroll container, and sticky starts sticking to a box that never scrolls.
- Switch the wrapper to
hiddenand watch the navbar ride away. - Switch it to
clip. Same clipping, and the navbar holds.
BodyPage wrapperNavbar
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