On Jul 2, 2014, at 7:36 AM, Larry Martell <larry.mart...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 9:25 PM, Tom Livingston <tom...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Is it possible to have a scrolling table with fixed headers without
>>> explicitly specifying the table cell sizes?
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Depending on your content this may be (or outright is) semantically
>> horrifying, but you could achieve the *visual look* you want by using
>> CSS display:table, et al and/or dl,dt,dd and css and have better luck
>> with the fixed header.
>> 
>> Some googling resulted in nothing other than solutions similar to yours.
>> 
>> That's a good one. I look forward to someone smarter than me figuring it 
>> out...
> 
> Thanks for the suggestion Tom, and also thanks for the validation that
> what I'm trying to do is hard ;-)
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Hi Larry,
See my code pen. I "think" this is what your wanting and it's table less. :)

http://codepen.io/designdrumm/pen/FLAkc

Haven't tested on IE, I'm on a mac. But safari, firefox and opera seemed to 
work and display the same. 
HTH,

Best,

Karl DeSaulniers
Design Drumm
http://designdrumm.com
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