Could you Iframe the part of the page that you want to scroll<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/16/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Justin Bennett</b> <<a href="mailto:Justin.Bennett@dynabrade.com">Justin.Bennett@dynabrade.com
</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">That looks like it might work. I didn't want to dump it to excel,<br>
because there are links off the table to update info, I don't want the<br>user thinking they can then update it in excel.<br><br>Thanks!<br><br><a href="mailto:joshj@linuxmail.org">joshj@linuxmail.org</a> wrote:<br>> When we last left our adventurers...
<br>><br>>> Sorry for the off topic post. But I know some guys here do some Web<br>>> work.<br>>><br>>> What I'm looking for is a simple way to freeze a column on an html<br>>> table (or equivalent) so that when the user scrolls, that column
<br>>> follows. It's for proofing a large dump of data from a database using<br>>> PHP.<br>>><br>>> Basically the first column is 'Item Number' and there is 40 or so<br>>> other columns to the right. It's in just an HTML table now, and as
<br>>> the user scrolls with the browsers scroll bar to see more columns on<br>>> the right, the item number obviously scrolls out of sight on the left.<br>>><br>>> I know there all all kinds of complex DHTML plugins and things that
<br>>> can do this, I'm just looking for a simple solution.<br>><br>> There's really no simple way to do it. The following would work. But<br>> you'll probably run into formatting problems (which you could probably
<br>> circumvent by setting the height of each individual <td>:<br>><br>> <table><br>> <tr><br>> <td valign="top"><br>><br>> <table border="1" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="5">
<br>> <tr><br>> <td><br>> ID<br>> </td><br>> </tr><br>> <tr><br>> <td><br>> 100<br>> </td>
<br>> </tr><br>> <tr><br>> <td><br>> 200<br>> </td><br>> </tr><br>> <tr><br>> <td><br>> 300
<br>> </td><br>> </tr><br>> </table><br>> </td><br>> <td valign="top"><br>> <div style="width:300px;overflow:auto;">
<br>> <table border="1" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="5"><br>> <tr><br>> <td><br>> ID<br>> </td><br>> </tr>
<br>> <tr><br>> <td><br>><br>> AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA<br>><br>> </td><br>> </tr>
<br>> <tr><br>> <td><br>><br>> BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB<br>><br>> </td><br>> </tr>
<br>> <tr><br>> <td><br>><br>> CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC<br>><br>> </td><br>> </tr>
<br>> </table><br>> </div><br>><br>> </td><br>> </tr><br>> </table><br>><br>><br>> Off-hand, I can't think of a reasonably sane way to do this in html.
<br>> If dumping it into a spreadsheet is an option then you can freeze the<br>> rows/cols.<br>><br>> -Josh<br>><br>>><br>>> Thanks<br>>> Justin<br>>><br>>><br>> _______________________________________________
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