TABLE question - HTML / CSS

Ron Hinds

I have several pages with tables that have data-driven content. Sometimes
the tables can get quite large. What I want to do is have the header (with
column nmaes) remain stationary while the body is scrollable. In the MSDN
documentation for TFOOT, it states that this element can be used in such a
scenario. But I am unable to find any example of how to accomplish this. Can
anyone point me in the right direction? TIA!

Jun 17 '06 #1

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Adrienne Boswell

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writing in news:3J*************@fe06.lga:

I have several pages with tables that have data-driven content.
Sometimes the tables can get quite large. What I want to do is have
the header (with column nmaes) remain stationary while the body is
scrollable. In the MSDN documentation for TFOOT, it states that this
element can be used in such a scenario. But I am unable to find any
example of how to accomplish this. Can anyone point me in the right
direction? TIA!

Very few, if any, browser have implemented that. If you Google you can
find various methods, frames, javascript, javascript/CSS, etc.

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Jun 18 '06 #2

Toby Inkster

Ron Hinds wrote:

I have several pages with tables that have data-driven content. Sometimes
the tables can get quite large. What I want to do is have the header (with
column nmaes) remain stationary while the body is scrollable.

The basic technique is, in HTML:

<table>
<thead>
<tr></tr>

</thead>
<tfoot>

<tr></tr>

</tfoot>
<tbody>
<tr></tr>
<tr></tr>
<tr></tr>

</tbody>
</table>

with the following CSS:

TBODY { height: 10em; overflow: auto; }

Basic technique can be seen here:
http://examples.tobyinkster.co.uk/table-tricks/scroll

Works in very few browsers, though it degrades very well in those
browsers that doesn't support it.

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Jun 18 '06 #3

dstone

Toby Inkster wrote:

Ron Hinds wrote:
I have several pages with tables that have data-driven content. Sometimes
the tables can get quite large. What I want to do is have the header (with
column nmaes) remain stationary while the body is scrollable.
[snip] http://examples.tobyinkster.co.uk/table-tricks/scroll

Works in very few browsers, though it degrades very well in those
browsers that doesn't support it.

Which ones does it work in? (Appears to work in Firefox 1.5, but I
don't
have that many other browsers available locally right now...)

Jun 21 '06 #4

Ron Hinds wrote:

I have several pages with tables that have data-driven content. Sometimes
the tables can get quite large. What I want to do is have the header (with
column nmaes) remain stationary while the body is scrollable. In the MSDN
documentation for TFOOT, it states that this element can be used in such a
scenario. But I am unable to find any example of how to accomplish this. Can
anyone point me in the right direction? TIA!

Below codes will solve 50% problem, only works in
Netscape and Firefox, and is not work in IE.
You scroll the vertical scroll bar, header will stay on top.
But the horizontal scroll bar isn't work the way you wish for.
<html><head><title>scroll table</title>
<style type="text/css">
tbody { width: 80%; height: 30em; overflow: scroll; }
</style></head><body>

<table border="1">
<thead>
<tr><th>...</th>..... </tr>
</thead>

<tbody>
<tr><td>...</td>.... </tr>
.....
<tr><td>...</td>.... </tr>
</tbody>

<tfoot>
<tr><th>....</th>.... </tr>
</tfoot>
</table></body></html>

Jun 21 '06 #5

Toby Inkster

dstone wrote:

Toby Inkster wrote:
http://examples.tobyinkster.co.uk/table-tricks/scroll

Works in very few browsers, though it degrades very well in those
browsers that doesn't support it.

Which ones does it work in?

IIRC pretty much any version of Gecko (except perhaps the very early
betas), but not much else.

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Jun 24 '06 #6

Andy Mabbett

In message <n8************@ophelia.g5n.co.uk>, Toby Inkster
<us**********@tobyinkster.co.ukwrites

[thead - tfoot -tbody]

>Works in very few browsers, though it degrades very well in those
browsers that doesn't support it.

Netscape 4.7 mangles it, if anyone still cares about that.

Now, if only browsers would automatically decide how much of the body to
show, given the size of the window in use...

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Jul 6 '06 #7

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