DataTables fixed headers misaligned with columns in wide tables

EDIT: See the latest Fiddle with "fixed header":

The Fiddle.

One of the solutions is to implement scrolling yourself instead of letting DataTables plugin do it for you.

I've taken your example and commented out sScrollX option. When this option is not present DataTables plugin will simply put your table as is into a container div. This table will stretch out of the screen, therefore, to fix that we can put it into a div with required width and an overflow property set - this is exactly what the last jQuery statement does - it wraps existing table into a 300px wide div. You probably will not need to set the width on the wrapping div at all (300px in this example), I have it here so that clipping effect is easily visible. And be nice, don't forget to replace that inline style with a class. 

$(document).ready(function() {
var stdTable1 = $(".standard-grid1").dataTable({
    "iDisplayLength": -1,
    "bPaginate": true,
    "iCookieDuration": 60,
    "bStateSave": false,
    "bAutoWidth": false,
    //true
    "bScrollAutoCss": true,
    "bProcessing": true,
    "bRetrieve": true,
    "bJQueryUI": true,
    //"sDom": 't',
    "sDom": '<"H"CTrf>t<"F"lip>',
    "aLengthMenu": [[25, 50, 100, -1], [25, 50, 100, "All"]],
    //"sScrollY": "500px",
    //"sScrollX": "100%",
    "sScrollXInner": "110%",
    "fnInitComplete": function() {
        this.css("visibility", "visible");
    }
});

var tableId = 'PeopleIndexTable';
$('<div style="width: 300px; overflow: auto"></div>').append($('#' + tableId)).insertAfter($('#' + tableId + '_wrapper div').first())});

The following is a way to achieve a fixed header table, I don't know if it will be enough for your purpose. Changes are:

  1. use "bScrollCollapse" instead of "sScrollXInner"
  2. don't use fieldset to wrap table
  3. add a "div.box" css class

It seems fully working on my local machine, but it's not fully working using Fiddle. It seems that Fiddle adds a css file (normalize.css) that in some way broke the plugin css (quite sure I can make fully working also in Fiddle adding some css clear rules, but not have time to investigate further now)

My working code snippet is below. Hope this can help.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
  <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">

  <script type='text/javascript' src='http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.8.2.js'></script>
  <script type='text/javascript' src="http://datatables.net/release-datatables/media/js/jquery.dataTables.min.js"></script>

 <style type='text/css'>
       div.box {
       height: 100px;
       padding: 10px;
       overflow: auto;
       border: 1px solid #8080FF;
       background-color: #E5E5FF;
   }

  .standard-grid1, .standard-grid1 td, .standard-grid1 th {
    border: solid black thin;
   }
</style>

<script type='text/javascript'> 
$(window).load(function(){
$(document).ready(function() {
    var stdTable1 = $(".standard-grid1").dataTable({
        "iDisplayLength": -1,
        "bPaginate": true,
        "iCookieDuration": 60,
        "bStateSave": false,
        "bAutoWidth": false,
        //true
        "bScrollAutoCss": true,
        "bProcessing": true,
        "bRetrieve": true,
        "bJQueryUI": true,
        "sDom": '<"H"CTrf>t<"F"lip>',
        "aLengthMenu": [[25, 50, 100, -1], [25, 50, 100, "All"]],
        "sScrollX": "100%",
        //"sScrollXInner": "110%",
        "bScrollCollapse": true,
        "fnInitComplete": function() {
            this.css("visibility", "visible");
        }
    });
});
});

</script>


</head>
<body>
<div>
    <table class="standard-grid1 full-width content-scrollable" id="PeopleIndexTable">
        <thead>
          <!-- put your table header HTML here -->
       </thead>
       <tbody>
          <!-- put your table body HTML here -->
        </tbody>
    </table>
</div>
</body>
</html>

I am having the same issue on IE9.

I will just use a RegExp to strip all the white spaces before writing the HTML to the page.

var Tables=$('##table_ID').html();
var expr = new RegExp('>[ \t\r\n\v\f]*<', 'g');
Tables= Tables.replace(expr, '><');
$('##table_ID').html(Tables);
oTable = $('##table_ID').dataTable( {
  "bPaginate": false,
  "bLengthChange": false,
  "bFilter": false,
  "bSort": true,
  "bInfo": true,
  "bAutoWidth": false,
  "sScrollY": ($(window).height() - 320),
  "sScrollX": "100%",
  "iDisplayLength":-1,
  "sDom": 'rt<"bottom"i flp>'
} );

Adding these two lines fixed this problem for me

"responsive": true,
"bAutoWidth": true

There is now a responsive plugin available: https://datatables.net/extensions/responsive/. However, in my experience I have found that there are still a few bugs. It's still the best solution I've found so far.

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