Posted by dorayme on 10/20/07 22:12

In article <ffdlig$3uk$1@newsreader2.netcologne.de>,
Alan Searle <aj_searle@xxxxxxyahoo.com> wrote:

> Jonathan N. Little wrote:
> > Alan Searle wrote:
> >> I implemented the scrolling tbody solution and, yippee, it worked
> >> perfectly ... under Firefox. Here is the URL ...
> >>
> >> http://alse.load4.net/tabletest/table_test03.html
> >>
> >> But under IE (6.0 SP1), it all goes haywire.
>
> > You've triggered quirks mode, all bets are off!
>
> 'quirks mode'? What does this mean? Are you saying that it simply
> won't work under IE ?
>

Look at

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quirks_mode>

Even given a proper 4.01 doctype, it does not work in Mac Safari,
iCab, nor in my Opera 9.2.

Plus in FF totally unnecessary horizontal scroll bars appear.
Even unnecessary vertical bars at times. Better to remove your:

tbody {
height:10em;
overflow:auto;
}
#tblbody{height:35em; overflow:scroll;}

and at most replace with:

tbody {overflow:auto;}

This at least gets it working in FF and does not make for
excessive appearing scrollbars...

Getting all this to work and degrade right in non complying
browsers does require quite some skill and/or research.

There are alternatives but you are likely wanting to focus on
getting this to work.

Why not take a look at something that at least does seem to work
on FF and Safari and Camino (I am too frightened to look at
MacIE, does not work on iCab):

<http://www.imaputz.com/cssStuff/bigFourVersion.html>

I would be very surprised if it did not work on WinIE considering
the tremendous efforts the author has gone to to ensure it does.

--
dorayme

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