HTML table with fixed headers and a fixed column?

5 +1 for neat solution, but that is a sad blog.... – BigBlondeViking Aug 20 '09 at 15:30 that is exactly what koogunmo asked... cool! – robnardo Aug 20 '09 at 15:32.

If what you want is to have the headers stay put while the data in the table scrolls vertically, you should implement a styled with "overflow-y: auto" like this: Header1 . . .. ... .. If the 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.

– koogunmo Mar 26 '09 at 7:36 2 overflow-y is ms specific. You'll have to use a plain overflow:auto. – Thomas Ahle Jul 21 '10 at 16:43 Would it be possible to do two colgroups and give the second one overflow:auto, to achieve the fixed first col?

– Thomas Ahle Jul 21 '10 at 16:43 2 @levik: does not work in almost all browsers at least using HTML 5 DOCTYPE in standrad mode – Marco Demaio Aug 24 '10 at 17:09 4 This does not work... – Nathan Reed Jan 18 at 7:29.

Working example of link posted by pranav: acatalept.com/common/test/fixed-table.html FYI: Tested in IE 6, 7, & 8 (compatibility mode on or off), FF 3 & 3.5, Chrome 2. Not screen-reader-friendly (headers aren't part of content table). EDIT: fixed link to jQuery library, which stopped working at some point after my original post.

Doesn't work for me in winxp ie8 or ff3.6 – allyourcode Jun 24 '10 at 23:09 The link to the jQuery library hosted on jQuery. Com changed, and their redirect was incorrect... so it stopped working in ALL browsers. I've fixed the link to point to the file on Google's servers instead - hopefully that one should be more reliable.

– acatalept Jul 21 '10 at 16:37 Thanks. This helped me a lot. I had to modify the code to use setTimeout() to get it to work with larger tables, but this is a nice example.

– Revah Dec 16 '10 at 15:33.

You might be looking for this. It has some known issues though.

I see this, although an old question, is a pretty good place to plug my own script: code.google.com/p/js-scroll-table-header/ It just works with no configuration and is really easy to setup.

In this answer there is also the best answer I found to your question: stackoverflow.com/questions/673153/html-... and based on pure CSS.

Here is a good jquery plugin, working in all browsers! You have a fixed header table without fixing his width... Check it : tablefixedheader.com.

I have created something which has fixed header, fixed footer, fixed left column and also fixed right column. This only works fine in IE. As most of the users are still using IE this can be helpful.

Please find the code here in Scrollable Table. Please let me your suggestions. Meanwhile I am working to fix columns in other browser.

I will keep you posted. :-).

1 This isn't a great solution, IE has stopped supporting CSS expressions: msdn.microsoft. Com/en-us/library/… – Homer Sep 30 '10 at 14:44.

For a scrollable table with fixed row AND columns go here. Note: this is tested in Firefox, Chrome and Safari, but not IE.

You could have 3 frames. One frame for the headers, one for the first column, and a third for the rest of the data. The third frame can set the overflow to auto.

This will bring scrollbars in when necessary.

This (alone) won't keep things lined up – allyourcode Jun 24 '10 at 23:10.

I know you can do it for MSIE and this limited example seems to work for firefox (not sure how extensible the technique is).

First linked didn't work for me. Second one does now show how to produce fixed first column. – allyourcode Jun 24 '10 at 23:28.

YUI DataTable I don't know if YUI DT has this feature but I won't be surprised if it does.

Thanks I took a look at that. It does have a scrolling table but that does have a fixed header but not the fixed coloumn that I need. Developer.yahoo.Com/yui/examples/datatable/dt_fixedscroll.

Html – koogunmo Mar 26 '09 at 18:21 yeah, I couldn't find that either from their list of examples. – allyourcode Jun 24 '10 at 23:35.

The first column has a scrollbar on the cell right below the headers Header 1 Header 2 Header 3 Tklasdjf alksjf asjdfk jsadfl kajsdl fjasdk fljsaldk fjlksa djflkasjdflkjsadlkf jsakldjfasdjfklasjdflkjasdlkfjaslkdfjasdf world world2.

I think you've misunderstood what's being asked. We want to be able to scroll to different cells in a (large) table. – allyourcode Jun 24 '10 at 23:38.

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