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title: "Why Does CSS Position Sticky Stop Working Inside an Overflow Container?"  
description: "Why Does CSS Position Sticky Stop Working Inside an Overflow Container?"  
author: "Gabriela Gómez"  
published: 2026-10-21  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/117922/why-does-css-position-sticky-stop-working-inside-an-overflow-container  
category: "Mix Category"  
tags: ["css", "Frontend development", "Web troubleshooting"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# Why Does CSS Position Sticky Stop Working Inside an Overflow Container?

I’m using `position: sticky` for a table header, and it behaves as expected until I put the table inside a scrolling panel. Then the header scrolls away instead of staying pinned.

The panel needs its own scrollbar, so removing the overflow rule is not really an option. Is there a common interaction between `overflow` and sticky positioning that explains this, or should I be looking at the parent elements’ heights and layout?


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