RE: FN-FORUM: [CSS] Freezing thead

date posted 21st August 2003 10:28

scrolling table body is what I'm after, apparently works in Moz not IE
Can't use Moz tho, will have to find a JS solution I think.

Anyway ta Ant.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL REMOVED] [EMAIL REMOVED] On
> Behalf Of Nick Grimshaw
> Sent: 20 August 2003 21:19
> Subject: RE: FN-FORUM: [CSS] Freezing thead
>
> Antony:
> > column alignment would be a pain, besides it should work using
> > overflow on the tbody but ie doesn't do it... poo
>
> 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 is
> especially stupid given that the HTML standard rattles on about 'This
> division [of tables into thead, tbody and tfoot] enables user
> agents to
> support scrolling of table bodies independently of the table
> head and foot.'
> (from http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/tables.html#rowgroups )
>
> - Nick Grimshaw