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cdk-virtual-scroll-viewport does not handle css position: sticky cleanly

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area: cdk/scrolling P3
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Description

#### What is the expected behavior?
using the css attribute `position: sticky` should allow for elements to remain displayed according to their sticky parameters.

#### What is the current behavior?
This works for a while but then breaks after a point. Im assuming its a matter of the 'stickied' dom elements getting recycled.

#### What are the steps to reproduce?
https://stackblitz.com/edit/angular-wnar6b-wzjdmh

This is a slightly modified version of an example from the docs. As you scroll the cdk-virtual-scroll-viewport you will notice the light blue headers stick to the the top of their area as expected. Once you exceed a certain amount of scrolling however the headers disappear. For me items 0-2 work but the 3rd one breaks.

Down below is an example using the [non-virtual] scrolling. Here the css attribute works as expected.

#### Which versions of Angular, Material, OS, TypeScript, browsers are affected?
Forked from https://stackblitz.com/angular/apvvljrovad from the docs. no versions changed.

#### Is there anything else we should know?
https://github.com/angular/material2/issues/11621 also gets at my base requirement; wanting some elements of the virtual scroll list to 'stick around'. It would be ideal if standard css properties worked as via this ticket but that might be hard as the whole point of virtual-scroll is to remove things from the dom that 'shouldn't' be rendered. The position: sticky css attribute would seem to break those assumptions.

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Research direction

Reproduce the behavior in the linked StackBlitz using cdk-virtual-scroll-viewport, then compare it with the non-virtual scrolling example from the Angular docs. Verify how scrolling past the first sticky headers causes them to disappear. Done means elements using position: sticky remain displayed according to their sticky parameters throughout virtual scrolling.

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Assessment

Tech stack
angular, typescript
Domain
frontend
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
38/100

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