What I want to be able to do is to present a table (with 3 varying
width columns) as a scrolling list of items.
I can do this by placing the table within a div which has overflow-y
set to scroll - however when the table is scrolled the table header
row scrolls out of view.

Is there a way to format this so that the header is outside of the
scrollable area but still aligns with the (varying width) columns
which contain the table data ?
If each column was a fixed width it would be easy - but I don't see
any way to take varying width columns into account.

SmartBloke wrote:[color=blue]
> What I want to be able to do is to present a table (with 3 varying
> width columns) as a scrolling list of items.[/color]

<table>
....
<thead>
.... header row ...
</thead>
<tbody>
.... data rows ...
</tbody>
</table>

apply the overflow to tbody.
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Johannes Koch
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(Te Deum, 4th cent.)

Johannes Koch wrote:
[color=blue]
> SmartBloke wrote:
>[color=green]
>> What I want to be able to do is to present a table (with 3 varying
>> width columns) as a scrolling list of items.[/color]
>
>
> <table>
> ...
> <thead>
> ... header row ...
> </thead>
> <tbody>
> ... data rows ...
> </tbody>
> </table>
>
> apply the overflow to tbody.[/color]

What you wrote will work only for Mozilla-based (1.2+) browsers.

Cross-browser scrolling tbody
http://www10.brinkster.com/doctorunc...lingTBody.html

DU

DU <drunclear@hotWIPETHISmail.com> wrote in message >[color=blue]
> Cross-browser scrolling tbody
> http://www10.brinkster.com/doctorunc...lingTBody.html
>[/color]

Thanks for your reply, this looked good at first glance, however,
looking deeper it does not allow for variable width columns -
stripping the 'col widths' and the 'table-layout: fixed' from your
code breaks the alignment of the table header and body.

I am generating a table dynamically from a php script - I have no idea
of what the content of the table is going to be so I cannot give
columns widths either relative or absolute - the table must reflow to
accomodate the headings/data.

Possible ?