jQuery Datatables Header Misaligned With Vertical Scrolling

Question

I\'ve posted this in the datatables.net forums, but after a week, still no response. Hopefully I can find help here...

I\'m using datatables version 1.8.1 and am ha

Answer 1

I know this is quite old thread, but I landed here when searching for the header alignment issue. Turned out I needed a different solution, so posting here so that someone will find it useful.

I just added following in my style block and it solved the issue:

.table {table-layout:auto !important;}

Seems that Datatables adds fixed layout, so adding this line made my headers align correctly with data when scrolling