[nflug] Off Topic - Freezing HTML Table Column

[Justin Bennett]

That looks like it might work.  I didn't want to dump it to excel, 
because there are links off the table to update info, I don't want the 
user thinking they can then update it in excel.

Thanks!

joshj at linuxmail.org wrote:
> When we last left our adventurers...
>
>> Sorry for the off topic post.  But I know some guys here do some Web 
>> work.
>>
>> What I'm looking for is a simple way to freeze a column on an html 
>> table (or equivalent) so that when the user scrolls, that column 
>> follows. It's for proofing a large dump of data from a database using 
>> PHP.
>>
>> Basically the first column is 'Item Number' and there is 40 or so 
>> other columns to the right. It's in just an HTML table now, and as 
>> the user scrolls with the browsers scroll bar to see more columns on 
>> the right, the item number obviously scrolls out of sight on the left.
>>
>> I know there all all kinds of complex DHTML plugins and things that 
>> can do this, I'm just looking for a simple solution.
>
> There's really no simple way to do it. The following would work. But 
> you'll probably run into formatting problems (which you could probably 
> circumvent by setting the height of each individual <td>:
>
>     <table>
>       <tr>
>         <td valign="top">
>
>     <table border="1" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="5">
>       <tr>
>         <td>
>           ID
>         </td>
>       </tr>
>       <tr>
>         <td>
>           100
>         </td>
>       </tr>
>       <tr>
>         <td>
>           200
>         </td>
>       </tr>
>       <tr>
>         <td>
>           300
>         </td>
>       </tr>
>     </table>
>         </td>
>         <td valign="top">
>     <div style="width:300px;overflow:auto;">
>     <table border="1" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="5">
>       <tr>
>         <td>
>           ID
>         </td>
>       </tr>
>       <tr>
>         <td>
>
> AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA 
>
>         </td>
>       </tr>
>       <tr>
>         <td>
>
> BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB 
>
>         </td>
>       </tr>
>       <tr>
>         <td>
>
> CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC 
>
>         </td>
>       </tr>
>     </table>
>     </div>
>
>         </td>
>       </tr>
>     </table>
>
>
> Off-hand, I can't think of a reasonably sane way to do this in html. 
> If dumping it into a spreadsheet is an option then you can freeze the 
> rows/cols.
>
> -Josh
>
>>
>> Thanks
>> Justin
>>
>>
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