Scrollable table

Question

In 2005, Stu Nichols posted this entry about have a fixed header with scrolling rows in a table.

Is there a more updated solution to this task, or is what Stu wrote in 2005 still considered the latest?

Answer 1

The second way is kinda how JQGrid handles its scrollable tables. Have a look at thier demos here. And perhaps instead of recreating the wheel you would like to use thier TableToGrid Method. This will take a html table and turn it into thier formatted grid.

Answer 2

If you are using jQuery there is a good plugin to do this. you can find it here

Answer 3

That's as current as exists AFAIK. Depending on which browsers you need to support you can use CSS to attach an overflow: scroll to the tbody element, but it's not officially in the CSS spec and only works semi-reliably. Firefox seems to understand it, and I believe Chrome will as well, but IE ignores it enitrely.

Answer 4

I don't know about you but I need tables which can handle dynamic width (and height). Firefox (<= 3.6) is able to handle this very well and none of the suggested frameworks seem to deal with that in a clean way. Too bad Firefox 3.7 is removing this feature as they call it a bug:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=552080

Feel free to vote on this issue and have the Firefox guys rethink their descition.