w3.css - tables and a scroll bar

[liverpool-phil]

HI I am trying to have a table with fixed header, and scrollable data cells below. on the right hand side of the table I would like a scroll bar to allow the data cells to scroll vertically.

This is the code I'm currently trying (without success)

.pb-scroll {
	display: 	 block;
	max-height:  400px;
	overflow:	 auto;
}

<tbody class="pb-scroll">
  <tr>
    <td>
      
      etc.

Any help greatly appreciated.

Phil

[dsonesuk]

Tables don't do that! Try using two tables, one for header, another for data content and use scrolling for a container element around  the second table.

[liverpool-phil]

HI dsonesuk,

Thanks for the quick response.

So one table for the headers and another for the data - I guess I can use the two sets of tables column widths in sync using width: x%

I'll give it a try.

Thanks

Phil

 

[liverpool-phil]

Have tried the suggested solution but it is pretty hard to keep things in alignment. The scroll bar adds to the last column which throws the edge out with the headers table.

Any suggestions on keeping things lined up?

 

Thanks

Phil

[dsonesuk]

https://www.w3schools.com/code/tryit.asp?filename=G6A3A9X7PEY4

 

The problem is different browsers, different scrollbar widths, I tried this in three main browsers IE,Chrome, FF, and they are identical, if you find browser that causes misalignment because of scrollbar I suggest you re-enable 

.table-header {/*overflow-y:scroll;*/}

This will created scrollbar in header, even not required but will Make ALL browsers correctly to column widths.  

Edited July 23, 2019 by dsonesuk

[liverpool-phil]

Thanks again dsonesuk, this will work or what I want. I also learned several new things 😊 I hadn't use colgroup before, and I didn't know you could do {width:calc(100%-8px);}

 

Phil