Re: FN-FORUM: [CSS] Freezing thead

date posted 21st August 2003 10:39

if all you want is a scrolling table body, i've got an ace piece of
javascript to do just that. works in IE no probs.

www.evoke-media.com/sites/energis/main.htm

feel free to borrow as much as you like ;-)

(i wrote the page a few years ago, so there's a lot of crap in there
also!)

luke



On Thursday, August 21, 2003, at 11:00 AM, Anthony Johnston.Antix
Software Limited wrote:

>
> 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
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