[whatwg] Scrollable Tables and HTML5
Ian Hickson
ian at hixie.ch
Wed Aug 11 15:07:36 PDT 2010
On Wed, 21 Jul 2010, Schalk Neethling wrote:
>
> I have been working on getting scrollable tables working across all
> browsers. While there exists jQuery plugins that does the job for the
> most part, I have to find one that works 100% and works at all in
> Chrome. The reason I am putting this to the HTML5 list is because I am
> wondering whether there is something in the HTML5 spec that is going to
> aid in this regard.
>
> In the current HTML 4 spec
> (http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/tables.html#h-11.2.3) it is
> stated that:
>
> "Table rows may be grouped into a table head, table foot, and one or
> more table body sections, using the THEAD
> <http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/tables.html#edef-THEAD> , TFOOT
> <http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/tables.html#edef-TFOOT> and
> TBODY <http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/tables.html#edef-TBODY>
> elements, respectively. This division enables user agents to support
> scrolling of table bodies independently of the table head and foot."
>
> The only browser, including the IE9 previews, that has implemented this
> behavior is Firefox. For the rest it is quite a terrible hack with
> JavaScript to get similar behavior. Is there any work being done get
> UA's to implement this as a standard? Is there work being done by other
> working groups, maybe ARIA, in this regard? Looking forward to your
> feedback.
On Wed, 21 Jul 2010, Boris Zbarsky wrote:
>
> Note that the Firefox implementation was removed, because it violated
> the CSS2.1 spec, caused compatibility problems for other browsers, and
> was buggy to the point that it wasn't worth the effort needed to
> maintain it (esp. given the other strikes against it).
This seems like a CSS issue -- nothing in HTML prevents browsers from
implementing this in theory, and I don't think there's much we could do
to help make it implementable in practice.
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