RE: FN-FORUM: [CSS] Freezing thead - now 'Expandable columns in CSS'

date posted 21st August 2003 10:05

Ta, I'll give it a go=20

-----Original Message-----
From: Luke Perman [EMAIL REMOVED]
Sent: 21 August 2003 09:41
To: Andy Macnaughton-Jones
Subject: Re: FN-FORUM: [CSS] Freezing thead - now 'Expandable columns in
CSS'


hi andy,

just do this:

in the head of your document put:



then in the body have:

content here content here content=20
here

... and repeat for as many rows as you want ....

you could put all the rows inside another DIV if you really wanted to,=20
i.e. if you want to absolutely position the whole lot somewhere on the=20
screen, but the best way to toggle the width of everything is simply to=20
change the 'width' attribute of the .row CSS to something fixed, and=20
then play with the % widths of each span class.

i just added the background colours so that it is easy to see what is=20
happening...

**note that the 'last' span has no 'float' attribute assigned to it!**

hmmm.... time for coffee methinks

luke



On Wednesday, August 20, 2003, at 11:02 PM, Andy Macnaughton-Jones=20
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nick Grimshaw [EMAIL REMOVED]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 9:19 PM
> To: Andy Macnaughton-Jones
> Subject: RE: FN-FORUM: [CSS] Freezing thead
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> Antony:
>> column alignment would be a pain, besides it should work using
>> overflow on the tbody but ie doesn't do it... poo
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> Actually, it shouldn't work.
> http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/visufx.html#overflow says that overflow
> applies to 'block-level and replaced elements', of which a is
> neither. I don't think there's any (sensible) way of doing it, which
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> especially stupid given that the HTML standard rattles on about 'This
> division [of tables into thead, tbody and tfoot] enables user agents
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> support scrolling of table bodies independently of the table head and
> foot.' (from http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/tables.html#rowgroups )
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> - Nick Grimshaw
> { if you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
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