[html5] table with fixed headers

[Gary Turner]

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.

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.

Simply, the css was
tbody {
  overflow: auto;
  height: xxx;
  }

The work-around for IE and Opera was fairly straight forward and still
works for them as well as for Chrome and Firefox. See
http://web.archive.org/web/20060421055400/http://garyblue.port5.com/webdev/scrollingtable.html
for a working example, written in 2004 and modified in 2006 for
non-compliant browsers, which now sorrily includes FF.

I'd consider this far more robust than using js to modify behavior.

cheers,

gary


On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 4:50 PM, Larry Martell <larry.martell at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 9:58 AM, Larry Martell <larry.martell at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 9:40 AM, Martin Gainty <mgainty at hotmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2014 04:11:37 -0700
> >>> From: webmaster at tsmchughs.com
> >>> To: help at lists.whatwg.org
> >>
> >>> Subject: Re: [html5] table with fixed headers
> >>>
> >>> On 7/4/14, 1:42 PM, Larry Martell wrote:
> >>> > On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 4:26 PM, Brian Tremblay wrote:
> >>> >>
> >>> >> the code posted on jsfiddle *does* have it:
> >>> >>
> >>> >> <td aligh=right>BAZ</td>
> >>> >>
> >>> >> Regardless of who wrote that code, it is incorrect.
> >>> >
> >>> > I wrote it. I'm sorry. One typo pasted 15 times. I've fixed it:
> >>> > http://jsfiddle.net/NyGbt/
> >>>
> >>> No, you didn't:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> <td aligh=right>FOO</td>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> But don't fix it on my account. I can't guarantee a solution.
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Brian Tremblay
> >>
> >> MG>perhaps the time has come for Larry to open up his checkbook and pay
> for
> >> a correct solution?
> >
> > That has crossed my mind. I am close to getting it working with this:
> > http://nevcal.com/eclectic/UltimateScrollingTable.html
> >
> > But I would much prefer a pure CSS solution. How much would you want
> > to get for that?
>
> Just to close out this thread, I ended up using
> http://nevcal.com/eclectic/UltimateScrollingTable.html
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