- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 22:12:03 +0000 (UTC)
- To: "Dahal, Biswa" <biswa-dahal@uiowa.edu>
- Cc: "'public-html-comments@w3.org'" <public-html-comments@w3.org>
(-whatwg to avoid cross-posting) On Wed, 10 Jun 2009, Dahal, Biswa wrote: > > I am a developer and as I was going through the draft for HTML 5 at: > http://dev.w3.org/html5/html-author/#tabular-data, I could not find a > common use-case that should be supported. > > My recommendation is to add an attribute "scroll: scolling (default) | > fixed" in <thead> and <tfoot> to allow them to be fixed (non scrolling > headers / footers ). This is currently performed through CSS hacks and > is not consistent across browser implementations. Example CSS > implementation: > http://www.ssi-developer.net/css/non-scrolling-table-hdr.shtml to > understand the effect. Alternatively, you can open Excel and use "freeze > panes" to view the effect. Thank you for your proposal. I haven't added your proposal to HTML5, because it seems to be primarily a presentational feature, and therefore should belong in CSS. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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