[nflug] Off Topic - Freezing HTML Table Column

[Adam Laurich]

Could you Iframe the part of the page that you want to scroll

On 8/16/06, Justin Bennett <Justin.Bennett at dynabrade.com> wrote:
>
> 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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