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From: Tim Harshbarger
Date: Nov 3, 2003 9:58AM

Hi,

I just called one of the developers to double check. I made the
"assumption" that they were using an iframe. I was wrong on that. They are
actually setting the CSS overflow property to "auto".

I was trying to put together a solution that used the thead and tbody
elements with CSS to create a scrollable table that worked. However, the
intended audience will only be using IE to access the web app and it does
not appear so far that I can get that combination to work correctly.

Thanks,
Tim
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>Subject: Re: Table Column Headings
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>From: "Tim Harshbarger" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
>>
>> They do have headers for the table. Unfortunately, this particular
>project
>> team made the table with the headers a separate table. They
>did this
>> so they could create a scrollable table while making the headers
>> static.
>>
>
>
>Ahhh, *now* it's making sense. I can picture what they are
>doing. Is the 'scrollable table' in a full frame, or in an iframe?
>
>Either way, how about just putting the headers at the top of
>the 'scrollable' table as well? I think that would make a
>good intermediate solution until something else can be thought
>of. You might think it looks a bit 'odd' at first, but once
>you start scrolling the table, the reason for the 'extra
>headers' makes sense. If you have a couple thousand rows of
>data, a 'floating header' like this is a big help. But, there
>is an accessibility issue, which is why the question was
>brought in the first place.
>
>If it's a full frame, you might even be able to load the frame
>with a particular point in the page at the top of the frame
>and 'hide' the repeated header from the viewer when they first see it.
>
>
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