Fixed header in table inside scrollable Div

Question

My code below

<div>Some Page Content </div>

<div style="max-height: 200px; overflow: auto;">
<table id="test">
<thead>
<tr>
<th>
</th>
</th>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>

<div>Some Page Content </div>

Am trying to have vertical scroll bar for Div so if it exceeds the max height am getting the scroll bar which is working fine.

Now i tried to fix the Header to be fixed

i tried position:Fixed for TH and what it does is it keeps the header fixed all through the page. I saw few posts regarding the same on Fixed header and am confused of the best way of implementing these as most of them are old answers.

My Output should be like Div(Table) should be scrollable and the header to Fixed only for that table and not for the Entire page.

Hoping for a simple and better approach to achieve this

Thanks

Answer 1

You can try to separate the header from the content: http://jsfiddle.net/u2xZU/ and put the header outside the scrollable content.

Basically, use two tables, one for the header and one for the content:

<div>Some Page Content </div>
    <table>
            <thead>
                <tr>
                    <th>Head1</th>
                    <th>Head2</th>
                    <th>Head3</th>
                </tr>
            </thead>
    </table>
    <div style="max-height: 200px; overflow: auto;">
        <table id="test">
            <tbody>
                <tr> <td>content</td> <td>content</td> <td>content</td> </tr>
                <tr> <td>content</td> <td>content</td> <td>content</td> </tr>
                <tr> <td>content</td> <td>content</td> <td>content</td> </tr>
                <tr> <td>content</td> <td>content</td> <td>content</td> </tr>
                <tr> <td>content</td> <td>content</td> <td>content</td> </tr>
                <tr> <td>content</td> <td>content</td> <td>content</td> </tr>
                <tr> <td>content</td> <td>content</td> <td>content</td> </tr>
                <tr> <td>content</td> <td>content</td> <td>content</td> </tr>
                <tr> <td>content</td> <td>content</td> <td>content</td> </tr>
                <tr> <td>content</td> <td>content</td> <td>content</td> </tr>
            </tbody>
        </table>
    </div>
<div>Some Page Content </div>