Here’s a handy plugin to attach elements to view port so they don’t scroll with the page.  Scripts for both pinning and unpinning are available. 

To pin:

$(’fxtarget’).pin();

To unpin:

$(’fxtarget).unpin();

You can get it online from clientside here:

http://clientside.cnet.com/code-snippets/visual-effects/new-elementpin/

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