<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:courier new,monospace">My apologies if this post doesn't properly address the list; I'm on GMail and damed if I can find the 'reply to list' function.<br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:courier new,monospace">To my knowledge, NS6+ and Mozilla were the only browsers to properly support a scrolling tbody. For whatever reason, Firefox dropped this support sometime after 2006.<br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:courier new,monospace">Simply, the css was<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:courier new,monospace">tbody {<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:courier new,monospace">
overflow: auto;<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:courier new,monospace"> height: xxx;<br> }<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:courier new,monospace">The work-around for IE and Opera was fairly straight forward and still works for them as well as for Chrome and Firefox. See <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060421055400/http://garyblue.port5.com/webdev/scrollingtable.html">http://web.archive.org/web/20060421055400/http://garyblue.port5.com/webdev/scrollingtable.html</a> for a working example, written in 2004 and modified in 2006 for non-compliant browsers, which now sorrily includes FF.<br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:courier new,monospace">I'd consider this far more robust than using js to modify behavior.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:courier new,monospace">
cheers,<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:courier new,monospace">gary<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 4:50 PM, Larry Martell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:larry.martell@gmail.com" target="_blank">larry.martell@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="">On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 9:58 AM, Larry Martell <<a href="mailto:larry.martell@gmail.com">larry.martell@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 9:40 AM, Martin Gainty <<a href="mailto:mgainty@hotmail.com">mgainty@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>>> Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2014 04:11:37 -0700<br>
>>> From: <a href="mailto:webmaster@tsmchughs.com">webmaster@tsmchughs.com</a><br>
>>> To: <a href="mailto:help@lists.whatwg.org">help@lists.whatwg.org</a><br>
>><br>
>>> Subject: Re: [html5] table with fixed headers<br>
>>><br>
>>> On 7/4/14, 1:42 PM, Larry Martell wrote:<br>
>>> > On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 4:26 PM, Brian Tremblay wrote:<br>
>>> >><br>
>>> >> the code posted on jsfiddle *does* have it:<br>
>>> >><br>
>>> >> <td aligh=right>BAZ</td><br>
>>> >><br>
>>> >> Regardless of who wrote that code, it is incorrect.<br>
>>> ><br>
>>> > I wrote it. I'm sorry. One typo pasted 15 times. I've fixed it:<br>
>>> > <a href="http://jsfiddle.net/NyGbt/" target="_blank">http://jsfiddle.net/NyGbt/</a><br>
>>><br>
>>> No, you didn't:<br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
>>> <td aligh=right>FOO</td><br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
>>> But don't fix it on my account. I can't guarantee a solution.<br>
>>><br>
>>> --<br>
>>> Brian Tremblay<br>
>><br>
>> MG>perhaps the time has come for Larry to open up his checkbook and pay for<br>
>> a correct solution?<br>
><br>
> That has crossed my mind. I am close to getting it working with this:<br>
> <a href="http://nevcal.com/eclectic/UltimateScrollingTable.html" target="_blank">http://nevcal.com/eclectic/UltimateScrollingTable.html</a><br>
><br>
> But I would much prefer a pure CSS solution. How much would you want<br>
> to get for that?<br>
<br>
</div>Just to close out this thread, I ended up using<br>
<a href="http://nevcal.com/eclectic/UltimateScrollingTable.html" target="_blank">http://nevcal.com/eclectic/UltimateScrollingTable.html</a><br>
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