Table with fixed header and scroll bar

Was able to use Dreamweaver 2004 to set up a table to display data from a MySQL
table. But then the customer wanted to have a scroll bar on one side and fixed
headers at the top "like Excel", because the number of rows retrieved were too
long to fit on a page. This was harder than I thought. I had to use CSS and
Javascript with a lot of help to make this happen. Then it didn't work in IE7,
so I had to use a different approach for IE. I got it to almost work perfectly
in IE7. It just has a tiny bit of the table visible scrolling by above the
header rows. http://www.ykfp.org/php/lyletrap/tabletotalscss13.php Why does
Microsoft make this so difficult? Why aren't web standards good enough for
Microsoft? Is there a better approach to tables with scroll bars?

I would just display the number of records that will fit on a page then use
navigation to display the rest of the records.
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I dislike pages with scroll bars myself.
Dave
"Major Geek" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

Was able to use Dreamweaver 2004 to set up a table to display data from a
MySQL
table. But then the customer wanted to have a scroll bar on one side and
fixed
headers at the top "like Excel", because the number of rows retrieved were
too
long to fit on a page. This was harder than I thought. I had to use CSS
and
Javascript with a lot of help to make this happen. Then it didn't work in
IE7,
so I had to use a different approach for IE. I got it to almost work
perfectly
in IE7. It just has a tiny bit of the table visible scrolling by above the
header rows. http://www.ykfp.org/php/lyletrap/tabletotalscss13.php Why
does
Microsoft make this so difficult? Why aren't web standards good enough for
Microsoft? Is there a better approach to tables with scroll bars?