[nflug] Off Topic - Freezing HTML Table Column
Justin Bennett
Justin.Bennett at Dynabrade.com
Wed Aug 16 13:27:23 EDT 2006
I don't need something that featured. :)
Mark Musone wrote:
> 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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