Frozen Table Header Inside Scrollable Div

Frozen table header inside scrollable div

Here is a basic solution using javascript:

function position(table) {
    table.rows[0].style.position="absolute";
    table.rows[0].style.top="0px";
    table.style.marginTop = table.rows[0].clientHeight/1.2;
    var widths = Array();
    for(var i = 0; i < table.rows[0].cells.length; i++) {
        widths[i] = max(table.rows[0].cells[i].clientWidth, table.rows[1].cells[i].clientWidth);
    }
    for(var row = 0; row < table.rows.length; row++) {
        for(var col = 0; col < widths.length; col ++) {
            table.rows[row].cells[col].style.width = widths[col] + "px";
        }
    }
}

function max(num1, num2) { return (num1 > num2) ? num1 : num2; }

How to make fixed header table inside scrollable div?

How about doing something like this? I've made it from scratch...

What I've done is used 2 tables, one for header, which will be static always, and the other table renders cells, which I've wrapped using a div element with a fixed height, and to enable scroll, am using overflow-y: auto;

Also make sure you use table-layout: fixed; with fixed width td elements so that your table doesn't break when a string without white space is used, so inorder to break that string am using word-wrap: break-word;

Demo

.wrap {
    width: 352px;
}

.wrap table {
    width: 300px;
    table-layout: fixed;
}

table tr td {
    padding: 5px;
    border: 1px solid #eee;
    width: 100px;
    word-wrap: break-word;
}

table.head tr td {
    background: #eee;
}

.inner_table {
    height: 100px;
    overflow-y: auto;
}

<div class="wrap">
    <table class="head">
        <tr>
            <td>Head 1</td>
            <td>Head 1</td>
            <td>Head 1</td>
        </tr>
    </table>
    <div class="inner_table">
        <table>
        <tr>
            <td>Body 1</td>
            <td>Body 1</td>
            <td>Body 1</td>
        </tr>
        <!-- Some more tr's -->
    </table>
    </div>
</div>

Fixed header in table inside scrollable Div

You can try to separate the header from the content: http://jsfiddle.net/u2xZU/
and put the header outside the scrollable content.

Basically, use two tables, one for the header and one for the content:

<div>Some Page Content </div>
    <table>
            <thead>
                <tr>
                    <th>Head1</th>
                    <th>Head2</th>
                    <th>Head3</th>
                </tr>
            </thead>
    </table>
    <div style="max-height: 200px; overflow: auto;">
        <table id="test">
            <tbody>
                <tr> <td>content</td> <td>content</td> <td>content</td> </tr>
                <tr> <td>content</td> <td>content</td> <td>content</td> </tr>
                <tr> <td>content</td> <td>content</td> <td>content</td> </tr>
                <tr> <td>content</td> <td>content</td> <td>content</td> </tr>
                <tr> <td>content</td> <td>content</td> <td>content</td> </tr>
                <tr> <td>content</td> <td>content</td> <td>content</td> </tr>
                <tr> <td>content</td> <td>content</td> <td>content</td> </tr>
                <tr> <td>content</td> <td>content</td> <td>content</td> </tr>
                <tr> <td>content</td> <td>content</td> <td>content</td> </tr>
                <tr> <td>content</td> <td>content</td> <td>content</td> </tr>
            </tbody>
        </table>
    </div>
<div>Some Page Content </div>

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>

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