[whatwg] Tables, headers and bodies

Sun Apr 1 20:10:51 PDT 2012

Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky at MIT.EDU> schrieb am Sun, 01 Apr 2012 20:39:48
-0400:

> On 4/1/12 4:43 PM, Nils Dagsson Moskopp wrote:
> > Jose Fandos<iaminlondon at gmail.com>  schrieb am Sun, 1 Apr 2012
> > 21:15:10 +0100:
> >
> >> Can anyone point to any discussions about table headers and table
> >> bodies and how to deal with having a fixed header and a scrollable
> >> body?
> >
> > Did you try “overflow: scroll” and a fixed height on<tbody>
> > elements?
> 
> Nils, did you?

I didn't and got caught. How very disappointing of me.

> It doesn't work, and the CSS spec explicitly says that it should not 
> work at the moment.

However, according to a comment on the relevant WebKit bug, the CSS
basic box model working draft does imply overflow behaviour on table
boxes <https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3239#c17>.

-- 
Nils Dagsson Moskopp // erlehmann
<http://dieweltistgarnichtso.net>