Setting a max height on a table

Question

I am trying to design a page where there are some tables. It seems that styling tables is much more painful than it ought to be.

The problem is the following: The ta

Answer 1

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:

    

        

            
Header stays put, no scrolling
        
    
    

        

            
cell 1/1
            
cell 1/2
        
        

            
cell 2/1
            
cell 2/2
        
        

            
cell 3/1
            
cell 3/2
        
    

Here's the fiddle.