Setting a max height on a table
- Set
display: block;
for thetable
- Set
position: sticky; top: 0;
for the header row
<table style="display: block; height: 100px; overflow: auto;">
<thead>
<tr>
<td style="position: sticky; top: 0;">Header stays put</td>
<td style="position: sticky; top: 0;">Layout aligned</td>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>foo1</td>
<td>Header stays put</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>foo2</td>
<td>Header stays put</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
https://jsfiddle.net/0zxk18fp/
Tested on Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge
NOTE this answer is now incorrect. I may get back to it at a later time.
As others have pointed out, you can't set the height of a table unless you set its display to block
, but then you get a scrolling header. So what you're looking for is to set the height
and display:block
on the tbody
alone:
<table style="border: 1px solid red">
<thead>
<tr>
<td>Header stays put, no scrolling</td>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody style="display: block; border: 1px solid green; height: 30px; overflow-y: scroll">
<tr>
<td>cell 1/1</td>
<td>cell 1/2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>cell 2/1</td>
<td>cell 2/2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>cell 3/1</td>
<td>cell 3/2</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
Here's the fiddle.