Re: <THEAD> for non-scrolling table headers. Unsupported?

[Peter Lawson]

On 26/07/2009 Lon Stowell wrote:
> Rahul wrote:
> > > "Ron K." <kil...@gisco.net> wrote in
> > > news:ed6dnWnipIomnffX...@mozilla.org:
> > >
> >> >> It's Your tagging thats not right. See link [1]
> >> >>
> >> >> Headings in a Table
> >> >>
> >> >> Headings in a table are defined with the <th> tag.
> >> >>
> > >
> > > I do have the <TH> </TH> blocks but that still causes the top row
> to scroll
> > > away. Hence I was using <THEAD> tag.
> > >
> > > http://www.w3schools.com/TAGS/tag_thead.asp
> > >
> > > I do have the other elements of the table too:
> > >
> > > <TABLE BORDER=1>
> > > <THEAD>
> > > <TR>
> > > <TH>NSA</TH>
> > > <TH>BE</TH>
> > > </TR>
> > > </THEAD>
> > > <TR><TD>Pt/Pd</TD><TD>-1.96</TD>
> > > [snip]
> > > </TR><TR><TD>Rh*/Mo</TD><TD>-2.51</TD></TR>
> > > </TABLE>
> > >
> Try [with TH or TD inside the TR tags as desired]
> <Table foo=bar, etc>
> <THEAD>
> <TR> [head elements you want not to scroll]</TR>
> <TFOOT>
> <TR>[footer elements you want not to scroll]</TR>
> <TBODY>
> <TR> blah blah etc scrolling elements </TR>
> </TABLE>
>
Well, I have tried this exactly as above, which is as set out on the W3C
website, and all rows scroll just as before, at least while viewing
locally with FF. W3C *does* warn that these tags are often not supported.

BTW, is there a mailing list dedicated to questions of this sort? I find
them very interesting, but mozilla's web-developers-general mailing list
has no traffic.

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Peter Lawson
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[g]

Peter Lawson wrote:

> BTW, is there a mailing list dedicated to questions of this sort? I find
> them very interesting, but mozilla's web-developers-general mailing list
> has no traffic.

check;
http://lists.w3.org/

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peace out.

tc,hago.

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