[nflug] Off Topic - Freezing HTML Table Column

[Mark Musone]

You may want to see how Google Spreadsheets does it..
I think that's what you are looking for..

-Mark


-----Original Message-----
From: nflug-bounces at nflug.org [mailto:nflug-bounces at nflug.org] On Behalf Of
Justin Bennett
Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 12:54 PM
To: nflug at nflug.org
Subject: Re: [nflug] Off Topic - Freezing HTML Table Column

I liked the Div tag approach, it was simple but I could only get the 
scroll bar at the bottom of the table. I needed it at the bottom of the 
browser window.

I wound up having the best luck with a frameset, and using an 'onscroll' 
event to scroll both framesets together. This gets tricky when you try 
and make it IE and Firefox compatable, but I didn't care about IE, our 
users run mozilla / firefox.

Thanks,

Justin


joshj at linuxmail.org wrote:
> When we last left our adventurers...
>
>> Could you Iframe the part of the page that you want to scroll
>
> That's essentially what the div tags are for. I've been getting out of 
> the habbit of using iframes since they are soon to become deprecated:
>
> http://liorean.web-graphics.com/xhtml/comparison.loose-strict.html
>
> But you could probably drop one in and get the same effect.
>
>>
>> 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>
>>> > >
>>>
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA 
>>>
>>> > >          </td>
>>> >        </tr>
>>> >        <tr>
>>> >          <td>
>>> > >
>>>
BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB
BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB 
>>>
>>> > >          </td>
>>> >        </tr>
>>> >        <tr>
>>> >          <td>
>>> > >
>>>
CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC
CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC 
>>>
>>> > >          </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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