Do you have a link to the script in question?
See this link: http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex1/staticmenu.htm
The following is a test HTML code.
If you remove the doctype tag it'll work fine (I use IE7).
But the problem is that if I remove it or any part of it the style of my page will be messed up.
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head><title>test</title></head>
<body>
<h1>Test</h1>
<div style="height:2000px"></div>
<script>
if (!document.layers)
document.write('<div id="divStayTopLeft" style="position:absolute">')
</script>
<layer id="divStayTopLeft">
<!--EDIT BELOW CODE TO YOUR OWN MENU-->
<table border="1" width="130" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td width="100%" bgcolor="#FFFFCC">
<p align="center"><b><font size="4">Menu</font></b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="100%" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<p align="left"> <a href="http://www.dynamicdrive.com">Dynamic Drive</a><br>
<a href="http://www.dynamicdrive.com/new.htm">What's New</a><br>
<a href="http://www.dynamicdrive.com/hot.htm">What's Hot</a><br>
<a href="http://www.dynamicdrive.com/faqs.htm">FAQs</a><br>
<a href="http://www.dynamicdrive.com/morezone/">More Zone</a></td>
</tr>
</table>
<!--END OF EDIT-->
</layer>
<script type="text/javascript">
/*
Floating Menu script- Roy Whittle (http://www.javascript-fx.com/)
Script featured on/available at http://www.dynamicdrive.com/
This notice must stay intact for use
*/
//Enter "frombottom" or "fromtop"
var verticalpos="frombottom"
if (!document.layers)
document.write('</div>')
function JSFX_FloatTopDiv()
{
var startX = 3,
startY = 150;
var ns = (navigator.appName.indexOf("Netscape") != -1);
var d = document;
function ml(id)
{
var el=d.getElementById?d.getElementById(id):d.all?d.all[id]:d.layers[id];
if(d.layers)el.style=el;
el.sP=function(x,y){this.style.left=x;this.style.top=y;};
el.x = startX;
if (verticalpos=="fromtop")
el.y = startY;
else{
el.y = ns ? pageYOffset + innerHeight : document.body.scrollTop + document.body.clientHeight;
el.y -= startY;
}
return el;
}
window.stayTopLeft=function()
{
if (verticalpos=="fromtop"){
var pY = ns ? pageYOffset : document.body.scrollTop;
ftlObj.y += (pY + startY - ftlObj.y)/8;
}
else{
var pY = ns ? pageYOffset + innerHeight : document.body.scrollTop + document.body.clientHeight;
ftlObj.y += (pY - startY - ftlObj.y)/8;
}
ftlObj.sP(ftlObj.x, ftlObj.y);
setTimeout("stayTopLeft()", 10);
}
ftlObj = ml("divStayTopLeft");
stayTopLeft();
}
JSFX_FloatTopDiv();
</script>
</body>
</html>