On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 10:49 PM, Karl DeSaulniers <k...@designdrumm.com> wrote: > > 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 ;-)
> > 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, Karl, thanks very much for taking the time to put this up. But it still has the same issue - if a cell of data is long, then it runs into the adjoining cell, e.g.: http://codepen.io/anon/pen/IGcmt Also I need it to be table since we use a table sorting package. I've found a javascript solution that appears to work: http://nevcal.com/eclectic/UltimateScrollingTable.html The only issue I am having is that I've lost the on click handler for the table headers that invoke the sorting. I think I know how to fix it, but I haven't had a chance to implement it yet. I would much prefer a pure CSS solution, but I don't think that's possible while keeping all the features the table provides. ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
