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CSS - Scrollable Table Thead + Tbody Solution
I've been wanting to solve a table problem I've had for a long time. I want a scrollable table without needing to specify specific px widths for the headers and the table cells. I've been told there is no solution to this.
What I've done is duplicate the table. I create a div, give absolute positioning to both tables, show the headers of table1 then use visibility:hidden height:0.01em on subsequent rows. I position the duplicate table - table2 1.8em (1 row) below table1. (I think something could be done with z-index too, and if someone wants to demonstrate I'd be happy to see it). This table has the same data, but skips the headers. Some work is also done to make room for the scrollbar. Here's a sample: http://restoredirect.com/test.html You'll notice I'm close, but just a little off. Can someone help me to get it right? While not ideal, I think this may help many people. Also, if someone does have a more ideal approach please speak up and let me know! Similar Tutorialshi every one... How can I display static headers in a table, so that headers remain visible while user scrolls the table body? This is not working in IE 7 any working example please 2. iam having a column which holds data around some 100 to 200 characters... by default i want to display some 50 characters and rest of the characters can be viewed by moving the column... if this is possible let me know how to do it with some sample code......i dont know much about CSS 3. One more problem iam facing is with the number of columns displayed in the table. I have to display around 15 to 20 columns in a table... with this 15 to 20 columns in a table, i can see scrollbar to the page ....but i dont want scrollbar to the page, instead i want want scroll bar to the table (so that it doesnot effect the design of the page) I need a fixed table width and height and also fixed column width and height..... Note: I dont mind if columns are not visible (thru scrool bar i should see the hide columns) I need two scrollable div inside a table. Please help. Details: The div contains a table that should force it to show the scrollbars. This table inside the div has specific width(1180px). The div on the other hand should have its width set to 100%. As to why i'm using a table for the layout, i'm using a masterpage that uses table. Attempt #1 i set the div width to 1180px. This showed the scrollbar. But i don't want the users to be stuck to this if they have bigger resolution. Attempt #2 i added position: absolute; --> there are scrollbars but the 2 divs are overlapping HTML: Code:
<html>
<head>
<style>
.container
{
border: 2px solid red;
overflow: scroll;
width: 100%;
position: absolute;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<table width=100%>
<tr>
<td>
<div class=container>
<table border style="width: 1800px;">
<tr>
<tr>
<td width=200> January </td>
<td width=200> February </td>
<td width=200> March </td>
<td width=200> Apr </td>
<td width=200> May </td>
<td width=200> January </td>
<td width=200> February </td>
<td width=200> March </td>
<td width=200> Apr </td>
<td width=200> May </td>
<td width=200> January </td>
<td width=200> February </td>
<td width=200> March </td>
<td width=200> Apr </td>
<td width=200> May </td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
<div class=container>
<table border style="width: 1800px;">
<tr>
<tr>
<td width=200> aaaa</td>
<td width=200> bbbb </td>
<td width=200> cccc</td>
<td width=200> ddd</td>
<td width=200> eee</td>
<td width=200> fff</td>
<td width=200> ggg</td>
<td width=200> hhh</td>
<td width=200> iii</td>
<td width=200> jjj</td>
<td width=200> kkk</td>
<td width=200> lll</td>
<td width=200> mmm</td>
<td width=200> nn</td>
<td width=200> ppp</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
</td>
</tr></table>
</body>
</html>
I seem to have had success creating a cross-platform method for centering tables. #centeredTable { display:table; width: auto; margin-top: 5px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; } You can view an example he http://jim.centerfuse.net/css/table...ed-example.html IE ignores display:table and doesn't successfully interpret margin: auto, but text-align: center seems to take care of centering the table in IE. Tested in Opera 7, IE 6, IE 5.5, Mozilla 1.5. (I have the top margin in there just to move it away from my header a bit.) It does require that you set a width on your table, or it will simply fill the entire page, though you could get around that with a container DIV (like this: http://jim.centerfuse.net/css/table...able_width.html ). I thought others might be interested in seeing this, since it seems to be a common problem. I had originally developed a slightly more complicated way of doing what I need to do, but this seems to work just as well. My main concerns are that future versions of IE will break this code because of added support for display:table and margin:auto, or that the specs for display:table; will change in the future, since it seems to be entirely unsupported in some browsers (namely IE). Comments/Flames welcome -Jim Keller I have a report that is generated, and I want to use <thead> to show my header row in the table across multiple pages. The problem is that the first page has a bunch of miscellaneous title information that starts before the header row. So I would like to use <thead> on pages 2 and beyond, but not the first page. Is this possible? I'm working on non scrolling header solution. There are plenty of them out there but none that allow for both vertical and horizontal scrolling. I've writen a solution that works in FF and IE, but has some display problems in IE. My questions is how to hide a thead in IE. I've set the height of the thead and th's to 0 in both javascript and CSS but I can't get the thead to shrink below the height of the text in the cell. Is there any way I can stick a margin onto a tbody element? I'd like a 10px gap between the bottom of my table if the tbody element is present and does not have display: none. My alternative is to put in a tfoot element that is nothing but a spacer, but I hate putting in extra markup just so I have a handle for display rules. Cheers, Pete Hey all, i have a problem that is a major annoyance. Im printing a report out of Firefox and I need the headers to show up on every page. I searched on Google and got the code to show the headers. PHP Code: #print thead { display:table-header-group; } When I do this everything works as the header is printed off on every page, however when I add this code the pages after the first page lose their left and right borders. The horizontal borders stay but the verticle lines disappear. Anyone have any idea how to correct this problem? Thanks in advance for any help! I want a fixed height table, so I'm using overflow: scroll for the tbody. This works well in Firefox but does not work in Opera or IE. Does a solution exist to my problem? Hello all, I have the following code which is working fine in IE but not in Firefox. I declared the tbody height to 500px and when there is only one row in the table IE is not showing the entire height where as firefox is showing the entire height with white colour. How can i make it work in firefox. Also, i want to keep my header freezed. Help me out... Code:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html><head>
<meta name="keywords" HTTP-EQUIV="CACHE-CONTROL" content="One1Clear Finance, Multiservice Transaction Management, Cibernet, Cibernet $O1CName: Reports, Help - Reports;NO-CACHE">
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Pragma" CONTENT="no-cache">
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Expires" CONTENT="-1">
<style type="text/css">
div.tableContainer {
width: 135%; /* table width will be 99% of this*/
height: 550px; /* must be greater than tbody*/
overflow: auto;
margin: 0 auto;
}
table.report .c { text-align: center }
table.report .r { text-align: right }
table.report {
width: 99%; /*100% of container produces horiz. scroll in Mozilla*/
border: none;
background-color: #f7f7f7;
}
table.report>tbody { /* child selector syntax which IE6 and older do not support*/
overflow: auto;
height: 500px;
overflow-x: hidden;
}
table.report thead tr {
position:relative;
top: expression(offsetParent.scrollTop); /*IE5+ only*/
}
table.report thead td, thead th {
color: #FFFFFF;
text-align: center;
background-color: #6699FF;
}
table.report td.h {
color: #FFFFFF;
text-align: center;
background-color: #6699FF;
}
table.report td {
font-size: small;
color: #000000;
text-align: left;
background-color: #CCCCFF;
vertical-align: top;
padding-right: 0.75ex;
padding-left: 0.75ex;
}
tfoot td {
text-align: center;
font-size: 11px;
font-weight: bold;
background-color: papayawhip;
color: red;
border-top: solid 2px slategray;
}
td:last-child {padding-right: 20px;} /*prevent Mozilla scrollbar from hiding cell content*/
</style>
<title>Cibernet $O1CName: Reports</title>
</head>
<div align='center'>
<font size='2'><table class="report" $border cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" style="margin-top:-1">
<thead>
</table><br />
</font></div><div align='center'>
<font size='2'><table class="report" $border cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" style="margin-top:-1">
<thead>
<tr><td class="h">Payer Entity</td><td class="h">120+ Days</td><td class="h">90 Days</td><td class="h">60 Days</td><td class="h">30 Days</td><td class="h">Current</td><td class="h">Total</td></tr></thead>
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</table><br />
</font></div>
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Hello all, I'm designing an element on the page that will be masked (i.e., overflow:hidden). I want it to scroll vertically (if done with the scroll wheel or trackpad) but not display a scrollbar. Any ideas? Any help at all would be greatly appreciated. Thanks so much I'm creating an area that will have code snippets in it, I want it to scroll horizontally (wrapping may make the code inaccurate in some languages), but vertically I want the height of the area to grow dynamically. An example can be seen on this page: http://scratchprojects.com/2006/02/sample_article_tic_tac_toe_p02.php The problem is, in IE, if there is a horizontal scroll bar, it doesn't make quite enough room, so you have to scroll vertically as well. Shrink your browser window so the code snippet at the bottom of the page doesn't fit and you'll see the two scrollbars appear. In Firefox and Opera, just the horizontal scrollbar shows up. Here's the basics of the code: Code: <div class="code">
<pre class="codeblock">Private Sub menuAboutTTT_Click(ByVal sender _
As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles menuAboutTTT.Click
MessageBox.Show("Tic-Tac-Toe v1.0" & vbCrLf & _
"See how this and other programs work at" & _
vbCrLf & "http://www.scratchprojects.com")
End Sub ' menuAboutTTT_Click</pre>
</div>
Here's the style sheet: Code: .code {
text-align: center;
margin: 15px;
}
.codeblock {
text-align: left;
background: #fff;
border: 1px;
border-style: inset;
width: 99%;
height: auto;
overflow: auto;
}
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. I am trying to work out if its possible to have a div with overflow-x but have the height to whatever the height of the content is. Obviously the content won't have a fixed height for me to just set it. At the moment ive just got: <div style="display:block; overflow-x:auto;"> Lots of content here </div> Is this possible? Thanks So, here is the basic gist of what I'm attempting to achieve... Two main fixed-width columns: the one on the left containing my latest blog entry and the one on the right containing a menu of thumbnails. I want the menu column on the right to stop at the height of the left column and use a vertical scroll bar when the thumbnail content is too large to fit. I don't want to use a fixed height for the div containing the thumbnail menu because I want its height to reflect the height of the blog entry on the left. I started out with this tutorial but I don't think it's necessary for my purposes, or even necessarily a good starting point for this type of functionality. TLDR: It currently looks like this, and I want it to look like this. Any ideas? My ultimate goal: I have some content contained in a scrolling div (overflow:auto). If I hover over one of the links contained within this scrolling div, I would like to get a Netflix-style popup to come up. I want it to overlap over top of the scrolling div. My current attempts have resulted only in the popup content opening within the scrolling div, and making the scrollable region larger. This is not very good as if the user attempts to scroll too see the content they are no longer hovering over the link and the content disappears. Thus, I want the popup to happen outside of the confines of the scrolling div. My test: I have created a test to get down to the basics. In example 1, the blue div overlaps the green one. The green div remains 400px but the blue div overlaps it extends beyond it to 800px. In example 2, I add overflow:auto to the outer (green) div. In this scenario, the outer green div gets enlarged to 800px, only 400 of which is visible, and the rest hidden in the scrollable area. The inner blue div does not overlap the scrollable region so that the full 800px is visible. What I would like to see is for the green div to stay at 400px but have the blue div cover up the scroll bar and overlap the confines of the scrollable region. Is this at all possible? Any help is appreciated. I don't necessarily have to use divs.. anything I can use to get the job done would be great. Example 1: <html><body> <div style="background:green;height:200px;width:400px;z-index:0;position:absolute;"> <div style="background:blue;height:100px;width:800px;z-index:1;position:absolute;"></div> </div> </body></html> Example 2: <html><body> <div style="background:green;height:200px;width:400px;z-index:0;position:absolute;overflow:auto;"> <div style="background:blue;height:100px;width:800px;z-index:1;position:absolute;"></div> </div> </body></html> Hi All, I have a skeleton css site here http://www.10eight-design.co.uk/temp/layout_test_float.htm You'll notice that there is a LR scroll bar at the bottom of the scrollable div. Is there a way to remove this? That's all. Rob Happy new year everybody, and hopefully with more peace then last year. I need some help with this. How can I set a block element, like a div, locked inside an area which have scrollbars? When the content scrolls horizontally the block should not move. I did try many things now for a few days, but I can't get it to work. Thanks *edit* Hi. I'm having a funny problem where using 100% height makes the content div scrollable, even when there's no actual content in it. I am trying to make my content div be 100% height of the window size, so I have the following css: Code:
html, body
{
background: #FFFFFF;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
height: 100%;
font-family: Trebuchet MS, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}
#wrapper
{
background: #FFFFFF;
position: relative;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
margin: 0px auto;
}
#header
{
background-image: url("images/h-bg.png");
background-repeat: repeat-x;
margin: 0px auto;
padding: 0px;
width: 960px;
height: 107px;
}
#header .logo
{
margin-left: 10px;
}
#header .bg_l
{
float: left;
}
#header .bg_r
{
float: right;
}
#nav
{
background-image: url("images/n-bg.png");
position: relative;
margin: 0px;
width: 100%;
height: 143px;
text-align: center;
}
#nav a
{
float: left;
outline-style: none;
width: 240px;
height: 156px;
}
#nav_btn_wrapper
{
width: 960px;
margin: 0px auto;
}
#content
{
position: relative;
background-image: url("images/c-bg.png");
background-repeat: repeat-y;
width: 930px;
height: 100%;
margin: 10px auto 0px auto;
padding: 10px 15px 0px 15px;
font-size: 12pt;
}
As you can see I have height: 100% in every parent element from container up. Without the height set to 100%, the container div just cuts off, which is bad because I'm using a glowy background on it, and it just cuts off abruptly. I have used this method before on another design, but it worked only cos the wrapper and the container were both white, so when the container chopped off, the wrapper would continue, and it would look seemless. See www.landmarkmeds.com to see the problem in action. I have tried to remove the margin on the content div, but that only moved it up a bit. Also, looking at it in firebug, it reports the height as the correct value, and even shows the ruler down to the bottom of the browser window. Why then it allows me to scroll I don't know! I'm sure it's something stupid I've missed, but please help! hello all, i recently tried to implement a layout which fills the available screenspace, with the main content area as scrolling box. I thought i succeeded, because firefox shown no problem, but when looked in IE, IE is very slow to render it, making it just unusable. I've been looking for a way around ,but i'm out of luck so far, so i thought i'd seek advise on this forum. Maybe you can tip me in the right direction ! An image is worth a thousand words, so please have a look at the attached image, it summarizes the screen structure. As you can see, the only scrollable area is the center orange zone : "viewport". thank you for your time and help ! Alexandre |
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