> On Jul 4, 2014, at 1:18 PM, Larry Martell <larry.mart...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 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.
Ah, I see. Well my solution to the squeezing columns would be to use some @media to change them from inline to block at the size they overlap. But if you need a table for sorting, you could always shove it inside the li#cols and it could possibly work still. But good luck! Post back if you get a table to do what you're wanting. I'd be interested to see it done. ______________________________________________________________________ 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/
