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Alan
Alan

Reputation: 2129

HTML table with horizontal scrolling (first column fixed)

I have been trying to think of a way to make a table with a fixed first column (and the rest of the table with a horizontal overflow) I saw a post which had a similar question. but the fixed column bit did not seem to be resolved. Help?

Upvotes: 82

Views: 258539

Answers (7)

kbrimington
kbrimington

Reputation: 25652

I have a similar table styled like so:

<table style="width:100%; table-layout:fixed">
  <tr>
    <td style="width: 150px">Hello, World!</td>
    <td>
      <div>
        <pre style="margin:0; overflow:scroll">My preformatted content</pre>
      </div>
    </td>
  </tr>
</table>

Upvotes: 21

Prashant
Prashant

Reputation: 171

You can use below table style to have horizontal scrolling table with fixed first column.

table,
th,
td {
  border: 1px solid black;
}

.table-style {
  overflow-x: auto;
}

.table-style tr th:first-child {
  position: sticky;
  left: 0;
  z-index: 2;
  background-color: white;
}
<div class="table-style">
  <table>
    <thead>
      <tr>
        <th>_col1_row1_</th>
        <th>_col2_row1_</th>
        <th>_col3_row1_</th>
        <th>_col4_row1_</th>
        <th>_col5_row1_</th>
      </tr>
    </thead>
    <tbody>
      <tr>
        <th>_col1_row2_</th>
        <td>_col2_row2_</td>
        <td>_col3_row2_</td>
        <td>_col4_row2_</td>
        <td>_col5_row2_</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <th>_col1_row3_</th>
        <td>_col2_row3_</td>
        <td>_col3_row3_</td>
        <td>_col4_row3_</td>
        <td>_col5_row3_</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <th>_col1_row4_</th>
        <td>_col2_row4_</td>
        <td>_col3_row4_</td>
        <td>_col4_row4_</td>
        <td>_col5_row4_</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <th>_col1_row5_</th>
        <td>_col2_row5_</td>
        <td>_col3_row5_</td>
        <td>_col4_row5_</td>
        <td>_col5_row5_</td>
      </tr>
    </tbody>
  </table>

Upvotes: 12

Mark Swardstrom
Mark Swardstrom

Reputation: 18080

Here's an example with fixed first and last columns. Sticky works better than absolute positioning for expanding the rows when the cells have more content.

Note - this also works with rowspan table cells. The table holds its correct shape.

.wrapper {
  overflow-x:scroll;
  width:100%; 
}
table {
  table-layout: fixed; 
  width: 100%;
  border-collapse: collapse;
  background: white;
}
tr {
  border-top: 1px solid #ccc;
}
td, th {
  vertical-align: top;
  text-align: left;
  width:150px;
  padding: 5px;
}
.fix {
  position:sticky;
  background: white;
}
.fix:first-child {
  left:0;
  width:180px;
}
.fix:last-child {
  right:0;
  width:120px;
}
  <div class="wrapper">
    <table>
      <thead>
        <th class='fix'>Fixed</th>
        <th>Col 1</th>
        <th>Col 2</th>
        <th>Col 3</th>
        <th>Col 4</th>
        <th>Col 5</th>
        <th class='fix'>Fixed</th>
      </thead>
      <tbody>
        <tr>
          <td class='fix'>First Content</td>
          <td>A1</td>
          <td>A2 (with longer content)</td>
          <td>A3</td>
          <td>A4</td>
          <td>A5</td>
          <td class='fix'>Last Content</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td class='fix'>First Content (with longer content)</td>
          <td>B1</td>
          <td>B2</td>
          <td>B3</td>
          <td>B4</td>
          <td>B5</td>
          <td class='fix'>Last Content</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td class='fix'>First Content</td>
          <td>C1</td>
          <td>C2</td>
          <td>C3</td>
          <td>C4</td>
          <td>C5</td>
          <td class='fix'>Last Content (with longer content)</td>
        </tr>
      </tbody>
    </table>
  </div>

Example to play with: https://jsbin.com/qawidijigi/edit?html,css,output

Upvotes: 5

joeytwiddle
joeytwiddle

Reputation: 31285

Based on skube's approach, I found the minimal set of CSS I needed was:

.horizontal-scroll-except-first-column {
  width: 100%;
  overflow: auto;
}

.horizontal-scroll-except-first-column > table {
  margin-left: 8em;
}

.horizontal-scroll-except-first-column > table > * > tr > th:first-child,
.horizontal-scroll-except-first-column > table > * > tr > td:first-child {
  position: absolute;
  width: 8em;
  margin-left: -8em;
  background: #ccc;
}

.horizontal-scroll-except-first-column > table > * > tr > th,
.horizontal-scroll-except-first-column > table > * > tr > td {
  /* Without this, if a cell wraps onto two lines, the first column
   * will look bad, and may need padding. */
  white-space: nowrap;
}
<div class="horizontal-scroll-except-first-column">
  <table>
    <tbody>
      <tr>
        <td>FIXED</td> <td>22222</td> <td>33333</td> <td>44444</td> <td>55555</td> <td>66666</td> <td>77777</td> <td>88888</td> <td>99999</td> <td>AAAAA</td> <td>BBBBB</td> <td>CCCCC</td> <td>DDDDD</td> <td>EEEEE</td> <td>FFFFF</td>
      </tr>
    </tbody>
  </table>
</div>

Upvotes: 22

skube
skube

Reputation: 6175

How about:

table {
  table-layout: fixed; 
  width: 100%;
  *margin-left: -100px; /*ie7*/
}
td, th {
  vertical-align: top;
  border-top: 1px solid #ccc;
  padding: 10px;
  width: 100px;
}
.fix {
  position: absolute;
  *position: relative; /*ie7*/
  margin-left: -100px;
  width: 100px;
}
.outer {
  position: relative;
}
.inner {
  overflow-x: scroll;
  overflow-y: visible;
  width: 400px; 
  margin-left: 100px;
}
<div class="outer">
  <div class="inner">
    <table>
      <tr>
        <th class=fix></th>
        <th>Col 1</th>
        <th>Col 2</th>
        <th>Col 3</th>
        <th>Col 4</th>
        <th class="fix">Col 5</th>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <th class=fix>Header A</th>
        <td>col 1 - A</td>
        <td>col 2 - A (WITH LONGER CONTENT)</td>
        <td>col 3 - A</td>
        <td>col 4 - A</td>
        <td class=fix>col 5 - A</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <th class=fix>Header B</th>
        <td>col 1 - B</td>
        <td>col 2 - B</td>
        <td>col 3 - B</td>
        <td>col 4 - B</td>
        <td class=fix>col 5 - B</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <th class=fix>Header C</th>
        <td>col 1 - C</td>
        <td>col 2 - C</td>
        <td>col 3 - C</td>
        <td>col 4 - C</td>
        <td class=fix>col 5 - C</td>
      </tr>
    </table>
  </div>
</div>

You can test it out in this jsbin: http://jsbin.com/uxecel/4/edit

Upvotes: 127

Markos Fragkakis
Markos Fragkakis

Reputation: 7771

Take a look at this JQuery plugin:

http://fixedheadertable.com

It adds vertical (fixed header row) or horizontal (fixed first column) scrolling to an existing HTML table. There is a demo you can check for both cases of scrolling.

Upvotes: 3

mas_oz2k1
mas_oz2k1

Reputation: 2901

Use jQuery DataTables plug-in, it supports fixed header and columns. This example adds fixed column support to the html table "example":

http://datatables.net/extensions/fixedcolumns/

For two fixed columns:

http://www.datatables.net/release-datatables/extensions/FixedColumns/examples/two_columns.html

Upvotes: 8

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