[html5] table with fixed headers

[Larry Martell]

On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 10:52 AM, Emerson Veenstra
<emerson at emersonveenstra.net> wrote:
> Sorry, wrong link. http://jsfiddle.net/34Fd5/24/ is the correct one

That doesn't scroll.

>
> --Emerson
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 10:50 AM, Emerson Veenstra
> <emerson at emersonveenstra.net> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 10:34 AM, Larry Martell <larry.martell at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 5:54 PM, Brian Tremblay <webmaster at tsmchughs.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> > On 7/1/14, 9:43 AM, Larry Martell wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 12:29 PM, Brian Tremblay wrote:
>>> >>>
>>> >>> On 7/1/14, 9:19 AM, Larry Martell wrote:
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 9:27 AM, Martin Gainty wrote:
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>>
>>> > [snip html table]
>>> >>>>>>
>>> >>>>>> Is there any way to get fixed headers without explicitly
>>> >>>>>> setting the width of the table cells?
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> the column headers are not aligned with the data:
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>> I don't know what you mean. I pasted your page into my browser,
>>> >>> and there are 2 rows with 3 columns each, lined up as I'd expect.
>>> >>> What do you expect to happen that doesn't?
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> Please look at this fiddle:
>>> >>
>>> >> http://jsfiddle.net/34Fd5/
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > That tells me nothing. You need to explain what you think should happen
>>> > that doesn't.
>>>
>>> I have said what I want to happen: I want a table with fixed headers
>>> (i.e. headers that do not scroll off the screen when the table is
>>> scrolled) and I want the table cells to auto size as a table will
>>> normally do.
>>>
>>> > BTW, your html has more than 30 errors, including this one:
>>> >
>>> > "Warning Line 32, Column 17: A table row was 3 columns wide, which is
>>> > less than the column count established by the first row (4)."
>>> >
>>> > Correct that, and the columns may line up the way you'd expect. And
>>> > please correct the other errors while you're at it, so that debugging
>>> > is
>>> > easier and we can provide better help.
>>>
>>> I posted a small example showing the problem. The 'errors' have
>>> nothing to do with the issue. But I have found out that by setting
>>> display:block on the tbody, I essentially remove the “tableness”. So I
>>> am SOL.
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>>
>>
>> http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fjsfiddle.net%2F34Fd5%2Fshow%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0
>>
>> If you're asking for help, you could at least double check your work to
>> make sure there aren't easily fixable errors like writing 'aligh' instead of
>> 'align' and not closing the div.
>>
>> http://jsfiddle.net/34Fd5/23/ is this what you want?
>>
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