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I have this perl app... don't worry this isn't a Perl question. There will essentially be 3 parts to the page this app uses. Right now when entering the app the user sees a bunch of textfields and dropdowns used to get selection criteria from the user. When everything is entered the app gets executed and comes back to the same page. Underneath the criteria section (i.e. entry fields) a header row appears with each column name in it and directly underneath (in the same table) is the corresponding data. What I want to do is have the criteria show at the top of the page when no report had been executed and every time the user executes a report after just entering have the header appear at the top of the page and the content underneath. The only problem with all this (since merely moving these components around is a snap in Perl) is that I need the header to always stay above the content when scrolling through the data. I was going to use 3 frames (clumsy I know) but the criteria section and the header will be different sizes first off. So making a frame large enough for the criteria first in would be fine but then the header on subsequent executes would have too much wasted space surrounding it. Anyone have any suggestions? Thanks.

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Do a search for scrollable Table on the forum....

I think that is what you are looking for....
 
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Thanks a lot Eric!!! Great example! Just one thing though. I want to mimic something like Excel whereby Freeze Panes can be used. Ideally I would like to have a table header that does not scroll with the data table. Is there a way of doing this? Right now the header columns and the data columns aren't aligning properly. I'm using percentages in the tables because of the nature of the report. Thanks again for the help!

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The percentages are what is a pain with my 2 line scroll table. I was working on a fix last month, but I have not been able to do any personal coding! My job has been frying my brain.

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Thanks Eric. Just wondering... since I do not need to worry about the columns on first opening the application is there a way to grab the maximum width of the display area of the browser through javascript? If so, I could use that value and apply my percentages to the overall total of the display area, then use absolute values instead for the column widths. Anything you know of along these lines that might help? Appreciate the help.

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That is what I was working on, but then you also have to worry about the browser resizing.

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If using IDs with the columns could I, on a window resize and on loading, see what the column widths are in the "header" table and then set the column widths accordingly for the data columns? I wish there was a freeze pane property for this.

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