Make Table Header Fixed When Scrolling

Table header to stay fixed at the top when user scrolls it out of view with jQuery

You would do something like this by tapping into the scroll event handler on window, and using another table with a fixed position to show the header at the top of the page.

var tableOffset = $("#table-1").offset().top;
var $header = $("#table-1 > thead").clone();
var $fixedHeader = $("#header-fixed").append($header);

$(window).bind("scroll", function() {
  var offset = $(this).scrollTop();

  if (offset >= tableOffset && $fixedHeader.is(":hidden")) {
    $fixedHeader.show();
  } else if (offset < tableOffset) {
    $fixedHeader.hide();
  }
});

#header-fixed {
  position: fixed;
  top: 0px;
  display: none;
  background-color: white;
}

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<table id="table-1">
  <thead>
    <tr>
      <th>Col1</th>
      <th>Col2</th>
      <th>Col3</th>
    </tr>
  </thead>
  <tbody>
    <tr>
      <td>info</td>
      <td>info</td>
      <td>info</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>info</td>
      <td>info</td>
      <td>info</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>info</td>
      <td>info</td>
      <td>info</td>
    </tr>
  </tbody>
</table>
<table id="header-fixed"></table>

Table fixed header and scrollable body

Here is the working solution:

table {    width: 100%;}
thead, tbody, tr, td, th { display: block; }
tr:after {    content: ' ';    display: block;    visibility: hidden;    clear: both;}
thead th {    height: 30px;
    /*text-align: left;*/}
tbody {    height: 120px;    overflow-y: auto;}
thead {    /* fallback */}

tbody td, thead th {    width: 19.2%;    float: left;}

<link href="http://netdna.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.0.3/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet"/>
<table class="table table-striped">    <thead>        <tr>            <th>Make</th>            <th>Model</th>            <th>Color</th>            <th>Year</th>        </tr>    </thead>    <tbody>        <tr>            <td class="filterable-cell">Ford</td>            <td class="filterable-cell">Escort</td>            <td class="filterable-cell">Blue</td>            <td class="filterable-cell">2000</td>        </tr>        <tr>            <td class="filterable-cell">Ford</td>            <td class="filterable-cell">Escort</td>            <td class="filterable-cell">Blue</td>            <td class="filterable-cell">2000</td>        </tr>        <tr>            <td class="filterable-cell">Ford</td>            <td class="filterable-cell">Escort</td>            <td class="filterable-cell">Blue</td>            <td class="filterable-cell">2000</td>        </tr>        <tr>            <td class="filterable-cell">Ford</td>            <td class="filterable-cell">Escort</td>            <td class="filterable-cell">Blue</td>            <td class="filterable-cell">2000</td>        </tr>    </tbody></table>

Freeze the top row for an html table only (Fixed Table Header Scrolling)

This is called Fixed Header Scrolling. There are a number of documented approaches:

http://www.imaputz.com/cssStuff/bigFourVersion.html

You won't effectively pull this off without JavaScript ... especially if you want cross browser support.

There are a number of gotchyas with any approach you take, especially concerning cross browser/version support.

Edit:

Even if it's not the header you want to fix, but the first row of data, the concept is still the same. I wasn't 100% which you were referring to.

Additional thought
I was tasked by my company to research a solution for this that could function in IE7+, Firefox, and Chrome.

After many moons of searching, trying, and frustration it really boiled down to a fundamental problem. For the most part, in order to gain the fixed header, you need to implement fixed height/width columns because most solutions involve using two separate tables, one for the header which will float and stay in place over the second table that contains the data.

//float this one right over second table
<table>
  <tr>
    <th>Header 1</th>
    <th>Header 2</th>
  </tr>
</table>

<table>
//Data
</table>

An alternative approach some try is utilize the tbody and thead tags but that is flawed too because IE will not allow you put a scrollbar on the tbody which means you can't limit its height (so stupid IMO).

<table>
  <thead style="do some stuff to fix its position">
  <tr>
    <th>Header 1</th>
    <th>Header 2</th>
  </tr>
  </thead>
  <tbody style="No scrolling allowed here!">
     Data here
  </tbody>
</table>

This approach has many issues such as ensures EXACT pixel widths because tables are so cute in that different browsers will allocate pixels differently based on calculations and you simply CANNOT (AFAIK) guarantee that the distribution will be perfect in all cases. It becomes glaringly obvious if you have borders within your table.

I took a different approach and said screw tables since you can't make this guarantee. I used divs to mimic tables. This also has issues of positioning the rows and columns (mainly because floating has issues, using in-line block won't work for IE7, so it really left me with using absolute positioning to put them in their proper places).

There is someone out there that made the Slick Grid which has a very similar approach to mine and you can use and a good (albeit complex) example for achieving this.

https://github.com/6pac/SlickGrid/wiki

Fix table header while scrolling

Try this code

use translate to make header fixed

document.getElementById("table-container").addEventListener("scroll", function() {
  var translate = "translate(0," + this.scrollTop + "px)";
  this.querySelector("thead").style.transform = translate;

});

to print
all rows in the table add this in css

   @media print {
       #table-container{
         height:100%;
       }
   }

DEMO

updation

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update css with below to avoid mess up printing after scrolling

@media print {
       #table-container{
         height:100%;
       }
       #table-container thead{
         transform: none!important;
       }
   }

DEMO

table with sticky header and horizontal scroll

As per the MDN documentation:

a sticky element "sticks" to its nearest ancestor that has a "scrolling mechanism" (created when overflow is hidden, scroll, auto, or overlay), even if that ancestor isn't the nearest actually scrolling ancestor.

There's an active GitHub issue discussing this on the W3C repo, which has been running since 2017. There have been various workarounds suggested, but they all seem to rely on adding a fixed height to the table / table container, or using Javascript as in this answer.

At least for the moment, this is not something that's supported natively.

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