Item5239: Solution to editing long tables: Scrollable editable table with fixed header row

Priority:	CurrentState:	AppliesTo:	Component:	WaitingFor:
Enhancement	New	Extension	EditTablePlugin

When editing long tables with many columns, the user can lose track of what header coresponds to each column. I would propose to keep the header fixed and have the table in a scrollable div right beneath it. The div would be of configurable height.

I tried to write a hack for this using a scrollable div, but the column widths of the extra header will invariable mismatch those of the table (which depend on user-entered data).

I also left a wishlist at http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Plugins/EditTablePluginDev

PS (completely off-topic): the rich editor component used to report bugs doesn't allow Firefox 3 to spell check.

-- TWiki:Main/DanDascalescu - 11 Jan 2008

This has languished for a while, but I'd like to put my vote in for this one.

It doesn't have to be as fancy as a scrolling header row, but maybe a parameter such as editheaderrow="5" would put the headers in after every 5th row of data when editing only.

-- KiltBear - 09 Feb 2011

I think the best solution would be jqGrid or one of its cousins. Actually, these js libraries usually have a mode to "hijack" an html table as the initial data for a grid. Also, I saw checkins from Crawford recently on EditRowPlugin, which might address some of these problems (haven't tried it myself yet). Item5618

-- PaulHarvey - 09 Feb 2011