There is a very neat example of doing this using iframes..... http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/html/iframe.html Its about 1/3 down the page, in the section headed 'Simulating scrollable tables' Tim in Ireland ----- Original Message ----- From: "Walter Torres" <walter at torres.ws> To: "[JavaScript List]" <javascript at LaTech.edu> Sent: 30 April 2003 04:59 Subject: RE: [Javascript] overflow: auto > The only way I've been able to "mimic" this behaviour was to create 2 > seperate tables. One for the HEADER and another, inside an overflow region, > containing the data. > > Walter > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: javascript-bounces at LaTech.edu > > [mailto:javascript-bounces at LaTech.edu]On Behalf Of Michael Dougherty > > Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2003 1:57 PM > > To: javascript at LaTech.edu > > Subject: [Javascript] overflow: auto > > > > > > <span style='width: 200; height: 300; overflow: auto;'> > > <table> > > <tr> > > <th>Name</th> > > <th>Value</th> > > </tr> > > <tr> > > <td>Row1</td> > > <td>Val1</td> > > </tr> > > (many more rows) > > </table> > > </span> > > > > Is there a convenient way to lock the table header so that it > > doesn't scroll > > off the visible area of it's container span? > > > > I would like to not have to define the widths of the columns and have a > > fixed table with one row for the header outside the span... > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Javascript mailing list > > Javascript at LaTech.edu > > https://lists.LaTech.edu/mailman/listinfo/javascript > > _______________________________________________ > Javascript mailing list > Javascript at LaTech.edu > https://lists.LaTech.edu/mailman/listinfo/javascript >