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Sean wrote:
|| I've got a table that is wider than the window, and I was wondering if
|| there is any way to setup some persistent columns and have the others
|| slide "behind" them...similar to what you can do in Excel. Any
|| thoughts?

One CSS solution for IE only:
http://home.tampabay.rr.com/bmerkey/...olumn-csv.html

The only way I know to do it x-browser is to use JavaScript, which is often
brittle and unsuitable to a production environment -- or to make two tables
look like one, with JavaScript to synchronize scrolling.

In article <2da7n4->,
Toby A Inkster <> wrote:

> Sean wrote:
>
> > I've got a table that is wider than the window, and I was wondering if
> > there is any way to setup some persistent columns and have the others
> > slide "behind" them...similar to what you can do in Excel. Any
> > thoughts?
>
> If you were to ask about rows, then yes, this is possible -- you can use
> CSS to set an explicit height on TBODY and then scroll the overflow,
> allowing the THEAD and TFOOT to remain stationary. However, it has limited
> browser support IIRC.

Actually, I would be quite happy to be able to scroll table rows leaving
the header stationary. So, do you mean something like this?

<tbody style="max-height: 200px; overflow: scroll;">

Tim Streater wrote:

> Actually, I would be quite happy to be able to scroll table rows leaving
> the header stationary. So, do you mean something like this?
>
> <tbody style="max-height: 200px; overflow: scroll;">

Yep -- but as I said, browser support is limited.

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In article <n7bbo4->,
Toby A Inkster <> wrote:

> Tim Streater wrote:
>
> > Actually, I would be quite happy to be able to scroll table rows leaving
> > the header stationary. So, do you mean something like this?
> >
> > <tbody style="max-height: 200px; overflow: scroll;">
>
> Yep -- but as I said, browser support is limited.

Worse than that

I did a bit of a search and found some working example, but many seemed
to require large amounts of javascript and others some amount of creepy
css. I notice my books only hint that this is the purpose of tbody and
don't go further.

Bit of a disappointment, really, I would have thought there were many
instances where it would be useful.