Is there a CSS/JavaScript technique to display a long HTML table such that the column headers stay fixed on-screen and the first coloumn stay fixed and scroll with the data.
I want to be able to scroll through the contents of the table, but to always be able to see the column headers at the top and the first column on the left.
If there is a jQuery plugin that would be great! If it helps the only browser I care about is Firefox.
If what you want is to have the headers stay put while the data in the table scrolls vertically, you should implement a <tbody> styled with "overflow-y: auto" like this:
<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Header1</th>
. . .
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody style="height: 300px; overflow-y: auto">
<tr>
. . .
</tr>
. . .
</tbody>
</table>
If the <tbody> content grows taller than the desired height, it will start scrolling. However, the headers will stay fixed at the top regardless of the scroll position.
I know you can do it for MSIE and this limited example seems to work for firefox (not sure how extensible the technique is).
The first column has a scrollbar on the cell right below the headers
<table>
<thead>
<th> Header 1</th>
<th> Header 2</th>
<th> Header 3</th>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
<div style="width: 50; height:30; overflow-y: scroll">
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</div>
</td>
<td>
Hello world
</td>
<td> Hello world2
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
I don't know if YUI DT has this feature but I won't be surprised if it does.