add scrollbar to table

Question

Hi, I want to add a vertical and horizontal scroll bar to the table with fixed header. By using thead and tbody tags I could add scrollbar in firefox but IE is not supporting the overflow:auto property in tbody. And IE8 does not support css expressions so can u tell me how to the task.

thanx!

Answer 1

Take a look at

Scrollable table.

CSS Scrollable Table

Fixed Header Table using jQuery

Answer 2

Try your original sollution using overflow:scroll. You might also have to set a fixed height in px of the tbody.

Answer 3

If you have overflow set to auto the tbody will just show the overflow, you need to explicitly state overflow: scroll and have a fixed height for the <tbody>.

Answer 4

On giving fixed height also that is nOt working in IE. The height is getting applied to tr which i gave to tbody.

Answer 5

Use CSS for the task required:

tableID { overflow: scroll; }

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