Actually the height is set on a <div> tag containing the <table>. The
header&footer are outside the div, so they don't scroll. The JS part
is used to keep column widths in sync between header, body and footer,
so you can still use percentages in width.
Right now I just took the generated code for a scrollable table and
put in in w3c validator, the fragment is _almost_ HTML 4.01 valid (2
errors in column rendering, which I didn't modify : the validator is
complaining about the 'with' and 'nowrap' attributes, both
non-existent in the specs)
I have one more error in the XHTML validation : my <col> tags are not
closed. I generate them with the following code :
---
writer.startElement("col", null);
writer.writeAttribute(XhtmlConstants.WIDTH_ATTRIBUTE,
colData.getWidth(i), null);
writer.endElement("col");
---
I could manually add the closing tag, or maybe there's a way to do it
using the writer api, but I don't know how.
Anyway, the scrollable tr:table has been tested here on IE 8&9,
Firefox and Chrome. (Our clients use them with IE, but we're currently
validating our app to run on Firefox)
2012/7/12 Andrew Robinson <[email protected]>:
> Is the height attribute or height style being set on a <TABLE> HTML
> element? If so that is not valid. The TABLE element has no height,
> neither an attribute nor support for a CSS height. Some browsers
> recognize, others do not, but it is not in the HTML specification as a
> current attribute.
>
> http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/tables.html
>
> As you can see, the height attribute is deprecated on the TH/TD, but
> there is no height attribute on the TABLE element.
>
> I would rather not add code that is not HTML strict safe if possible
> to the rendering.
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 10:00 AM, Cédric Durmont <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 2012/6/19 Scott O'Bryan <[email protected]>:
>>
>>> If there is some
>>> functionality you'd like to see in Trinidad, please open up a
>>> discussion on the dev list about it. We'd like to hear from you.
>>
>> Sorry to jump in the conversation that late, I've been quite busy recently.
>> I filed a patch in TRINIDAD-1107 quite some time ago. I do know it's
>> not the most elegant piece of code I've ever written, and it's still
>> far from perfect, but :
>> - the new functionality ("height" attribute in tr:table) breaks
>> nothing as long as it is not used, so this shouldn't affect Trinidad's
>> stability,
>> - We use it extensively in one of our softwares. We have 20+ clients
>> (something between 50-100 users) using it in production on a daily
>> basis and experience no trouble with it
>> - More feedback and/or patches (who knows) would only make it better.
>>
>> I'd be happy to contribute small improvements to Trinidad in the
>> future, as long as it's taken into account by the dev team. I don't
>> say you should accept blindly anything, but at least give a feedback,
>> so I can improve the patch a eventually have it accepted.
>>
>> Anyway, thanks for your commitment on Trinidad, which is still a neat
>> piece of code IMHO.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Cedric Durmont
