Re: overflow:scroll and tables

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <leslie.brown@evidian.com>
To: <www-style@w3.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 11:38 AM
Subject: Re. : overflow:scroll and tables


| 
| > Does anybody know any technical or formal reason of why
| > following does not work in any (known to me) UA:
| 
| > <table style="overflow:auto; width:100px; height:100px">
|  ....
| > </table>
| 
| > I mean no one UA shows scrollbars if table content overflows.
| 
| Better yet (assuming the width is "known" to fit) might be:
| 
| <table style="width:100px; height:100px">
| <thead>
| ...
| </thead>
| <tbody style="overflow:auto;">
|  ....
| </tbody>
| </table>
| 
| ...with a little intelligent interpolation.

It could be multiple tbodies and it is not clear how to distribute 
their height using current CSS features. 

Again it would be possible if CSS will have flex units (%% or so)

tbody.first { height:30%%; }
tbody.second { height:70%%; }

So tbodies will take 30% and 70% from what is left after
<thead>  and <tfoot> fixed height replacement.

Another thing: scrollbar should be attached the whole 
table - not just to tbody - logical constraints here. 

I've tried initially to implement scrolling for tbody 
only but for many (logical) reasons this does not work in current 
table(thead,tbody,tfoot) model.

Andrew Fedoniouk.
http://terrainformatica.com

Received on Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:00:36 UTC