I've been trying to do this for awhile now too. Sounds like I have the same issues with my app.
Have you checked out any of the following? http://ajaxtop.sourceforge.net/tablescroller/example1.html http://www.webtoolkit.info/scrollable-html-table-plugin-for-jquery.html On Dec 16, 3:44 am, Shawn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I apologize if this is a little OT, but I've been at this for a couple > hours now and am not making any head way. So I'm hoping one of the > guru's on the list might point me in the right direction. > > My goal is simple - I need a table with a fixed header. I've found a > few sites that purport to do this with pure CSS, but applying their > methods to my table are failing in FF and requiring a good deal of > changes to my structure. (different changes for each method I find). I > need this to work in both IE and FF. I *would* prefer a CSS method, but > suspect I need some JS involved. > > What I'm currently trying is to clone my thead section into a new table > in a separate DIV above my table, then hide my original thead. I have > partial success where, but am failing when I try to fix the column > widths to match. I can't use fixed widths via CSS due to the nature of > the data/table. So I need to dynamically find the width of each column > from the main table, then apply that width to the corresponding header > column. Here's what I have so far: > > fixHeader : function () { > //create the header table > $("#scheduleHeader").html("<table></table>"); > $("#scheduleHeader table").append($(".crewSchedule > > thead").clone(true)); > $(".crewSchedule > thead").hide(); > > //match the header div's width to the main div, adjusting for the > vertical scrollbar > $("#scheduleHeader").width($("#scheduleOutput").width() - 16); > > //Fix the column widths in the header > $(".crewSchedule > tbody > tr:first > td").each( function (pos) { > $("#scheduleHeader th:eq(" + pos + ")").width($(this).width()); > }); > > } > > Can anyone point me to a better and/or more reliable way to do this? > This is functional enough for now, but isn't perfect. I'm getting some > 1 or 2 pixel offsets due to borders, padding, etc. I'm not able to fix > EVERY place where this may occur in this code. (I really hate working > with ugly complex tables.. :) > > Thanks for any tips - and listening to me vent.. :) > > Shawn
