

It is also useful for tables on narrow screens: you can keep headers or the leftmost table cells in view while the user scrolls. It is typically used to make sure that headers remain in view no matter how the user scrolls. If the container start or end scrolls past the sticky box abandons its fixed position and sticks to the top or the bottom of its container. A sticky box never escapes its container, though. A sticky box takes its normal position in the flow, as if it had position: relative, but if that position scrolls out of view the sticky box remains in a position defined by its inset properties, as if it has position: fixed. Position: sticky is a mix of relative and fixed. More information about this error may be availableĪdditionally, a 500 Internal Server ErrorĮrror was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request. Please contact the server administrator to inform them of the time this error occurred,Īnd the actions you performed just before this error. Misconfiguration and was unable to complete The server encountered an internal error or (I already introduced this terminology earlier in the chapter.) 500 Internal Server Error Internal Server Error The inset properties are top, right, bottom and left. There will be something wrong with it please correct me where needed. So here’s my draft 1 of position: sticky. That’s partly because it works pretty intuitively in most cases, and partly because the details can be complicated. This is made worse by the fact that there are no very clear tutorials on sticky. I’m writing the position: sticky part of my book, and since I never worked with sticky before I’m not totally sure if what I’m saying is correct. I made mine so the thead -> headers stick to the top, and tbody ones cover the other tbody ones up.Sitemap contact position: sticky, draft 1 It was a pain to make, and after being approved for months and in beta the project owners all of the sudden didn’t like the table having its own vertical scroll and couldn’t even remember how badly they wanted that first sticky column. Again I had to match the translation for the one sticky column on scroll just in the y-axis. This made it appear that the header was sticky but it was just scrolling what looked like the “table rows”. The second sets of tables were located under the “table header” with a min-height of 60vh. When there was a horizontal scroll I had to translate the non-sticky table of columns over in the opposite direction of the scroll to fake the horizontal scroll.

The “table header” was actually two tables in a div with overflow hidden. The only way I could get it to work was to combine 4 tables and make it look like one. They wanted the header to be sticky and the first column to be sticky. I had a table with any number (from 5 to 30+) of columns. Fortunately, there are a variety of ways, all depending on the best way to group and explore the data in them. I was imagining colored header bars separating players on different sports teams or something.Īnytime I think about data tables, I also think about how tricky it can be to make them responsive. It’s probably a bit weird to have table headers as a row in the middle of a table, but it’s just illustrating the idea. Sticky Table Headers with CSS by Chris Coyier ( CodePen. You can go that route, but need to be really careful to re-apply semantic roles.Īnyway, none of that matters if you just stick (get it?!) to using a sticky value on those elements. The first is dangerous because you aren’t using semantic and accessible elements for the content to be read and navigated. Use table elements, but totally remove all their styling defaults with new display values.Instead, use different elements ( s and whatnot) and other CSS layout methods to replicate the style of a table, but not locked out of using position: relative and creating position: sticky parent elements. There are two very extreme reactions to this, should you need to implement sticky table headers and not be aware of the workaround. The issue boils down to the fact that stickiness requires position: relative to work and that doesn’t apply to and in the CSS 2.1 spec. It makes way more sense to sticky a parent element like the table header rather than each individual element in a row. This is tricky stuff, because if you didn’t know this weird quirk, it would be hard to blame you. But you can sticky a, which means you can make sticky headers inside a regular ol’.
