Determine top row in html table

Question

I have a html table with scrollbar (i.e. overflow is set). When I scroll the table, I would like to get the the current top-row in position (i.e. according to user-view of table).

How would I do this?

Can anyone of you help me with an example?

Answer 1

Here is something that might help get you started if you're going at it with vanilla JavaScript. It's definitely not perfect but might spark some ideas... JSFiddle Example

[update] code from link above

JavaScript

document.getElementById('btn').onclick = function() {
    var tbl = document.getElementById('tbl');
    var scrollAmt = document.getElementById('asdf').scrollTop;
    var totalRowHeight = 0,
        viewTolerance = 1/3, //if only 1/3 of row is showing highlight next row
        rowHeight;

    for( var i = 0; i < tbl.rows.length; i++ ) {
        totalRowHeight += rowHeight = tbl.rows[i].offsetHeight;
        if( totalRowHeight > scrollAmt ) {
            //if row doesn't meet viewTolerance requirement highlight next row
            var rowIndex = (totalRowHeight - scrollAmt < rowHeight*viewTolerance) ? i + 1: i;
            tbl.rows[rowIndex].style.backgroundColor = '#ff00ff';
            break;
        }
    }
}

HTML

<div id="asdf">
    <table id="tbl">
        <tbody>
            <tr><td>asdf</td><td>asdf1</td></tr>
            <tr><td>asdf</td><td>asdf2</td></tr>
            <tr><td>asdf</td><td>asdf3</td></tr>
            <tr><td>asdf</td><td>asdf4</td></tr>
            <tr><td>asdf</td><td>asdf5</td></tr>
            <tr><td>asdf</td><td>asdf6</td></tr>
            <tr><td>asdf</td><td>asdf7</td></tr>
            <tr><td>asdf</td><td>asdf8</td></tr>
        </tbody>
    </table>
</div>
<input type="button" value="getTop()" id="btn" />

CSS

#asdf{
    height:100px;
    overflow:scroll;
}