HTML table with fixed header and footer and scrollable body without fixed widths

Question

I want to to create a table with fixed thead and tfoot and a scrollable tbody!

I\'ve tried several approaches, both CSS only a

Answer 1

I finally implemented a working solution!

The relevant CSS is the following:

.wrapper {
  width: 90%;
  position: relative;
  border: 1px solid #000;
  background: #efefef;
  overflow: hidden;
  border-radius: 7px;
}

.container {
  overflow-y: auto;
  height: 200px;
  border-top: 41px solid transparent;
  border-bottom: 41px solid transparent;
}

table {
  border-spacing: 0;
  border-collapse: collapse;
  width: 100%;
}

td + td {
  border-left: 1px solid #fff;
}

td, th {
  border-bottom: 1px solid #fff;
  background: #efefef;
  padding: 10px;
}

thead tr th,
tfoot tr td {
  height: 0;
  line-height: 0;
  margin: 0;
  padding-top: 0;
  padding-bottom: 0;
  color: transparent;
  border: none;
  white-space: nowrap;
}

thead tr th div,
tfoot tr td div {
  position: absolute;
  color: #fff;
  height: 20px;
  padding: 10px;
  margin-left: -10px;
  line-height: normal;
  width: 100%;
  z-index: 2;
  text-align: left;
  font-weight: bold;
}

thead tr th div {
  border-left: 1px solid #000;
  border-bottom: 1px solid #000;
}

tfoot tr td div {
  border-top: 1px solid #000;
}

tfoot tr td div.c1,
thead tr th div.c1 {
  background: violet;
}

tfoot tr td div.c2,
thead tr th div.c2 {
  background: green;
}

tfoot tr td div.c3,
thead tr th div.c3 {
  background: yellow;
}

thead tr th div {
  top: 0;
}

tfoot tr td div {
  bottom: 0;
}

thead tr th:first-child div,
tfoot tr td:first-child div {
  border-left: none;
}

And this is the markup:

  

    

      

        

          

            Header one *leads the width* (case 1)
            

              Header one *leads the width* (case 1)
            
          
          

            Header two
            

              Header two
            
          
          

            Header three
            

              Header three
            
          
        
      
      

        

          
Column one
          
Column two *leads the width* (case 2)
          
Column three [first]
        
        

          
Column one
          
Column two *leads the width* (case 2)
          
Column three
        
        

          
Column one
          
Column two *leads the width* (case 2)
          
Column three
        
        

          
Column one
          
Column two *leads the width* (case 2)
          
Column three
        
        

          
Column one
          
Column two *leads the width* (case 2)
          
Column three
        
        

          
Column one
          
Column two *leads the width* (case 2)
          
Column three
        
        

          
Column one
          
Column two *leads the width* (case 2)
          
Column three
        
        

          
Column one
          
Column two *leads the width* (case 2)
          
Column three
        
        

          
Column one
          
Column two *leads the width* (case 2)
          
Column three
        
        

          
Column one
          
Column two *leads the width* (case 2)
          
Column three
        
        

          
Column one
          
Column two *leads the width* (case 2)
          
Column three
        
        

          
Column one
          
Column two *leads the width* (case 2)
          
Column three
        
        

          
Column one
          
Column two *leads the width* (case 2)
          
Column three
        
        

          
Column one
          
Column two *leads the width* (case 2)
          
Column three
        
        

          
Column one
          
Column two *leads the width* (case 2)
          
Column three
        
        

          
Column one
          
Column two *leads the width* (case 2)
          
Column three
        
        

          
Column one
          
Column two *leads the width* (case 2)
          
Column three
        
        

          
Column one
          
Column two *leads the width* (case 2)
          
Column three
        
        

          
Column one
          
Column two *leads the width* (case 2)
          
Column three
        
        

          
Column one
          
Column two *leads the width* (case 2)
          
Column three [LATEST]
        
      
      

        

          

            Footer one
            

              Footer one
            
          
          

            Footer two
            
Footer two
          
          

            Footer three *leads the width* (case 3)
            
Footer three *leads the width* (case 3)
          
        
      
    
  

It works on Chrome, Firefox, Safari and IE11 (I don't know how it behaves on older browsers). See it on codepen: https://codepen.io/daveoncode/pen/LNomBE