Scroll HTML table horizontal and vertical while le

Question

I'm trying to create an HTML table where its height is limited and the left side stay fixed while scrolling horizontally (and the table body is scrollable horizontally) but not fixed while scrolling vertically (the left side will be scrollable with the rest of the table).

fixed    scrollable
  1     body content
  2     body content
  3     body content
  4     body content
  .          .
  .          .
  .          .

I found this solution however, it only addresses an horizontal scrolling. In Eamon Nerbonne jsFiddle example, adding a height: 150px; to the div will demonstrate the bug I'm trying to solve.

I'd like to find a solution that involve only HTML & CSS.

Answer 1

A little late but I did run across this thread when trying out solutions for myself. Assuming you're using modern browsers nowadays, I came up with a solution using CSS calc() to help guarantee widths met up.

.table-fixed-left table,
.table-fixed-right table {
  border-collapse: collapse;
}
.table-fixed-right td,
.table-fixed-right th,
.table-fixed-left td,
.table-fixed-left th {
  border: 1px solid #ddd;
  padding: 5px 5px;
}
.table-fixed-left {
  width: 120px;
  float: left;
  position: fixed;
  overflow-x: scroll;
  white-space: nowrap;
  text-align: left;
  border: 1px solid #ddd;
  z-index: 2;
}
.table-fixed-right {
  width: calc(100% - 145px);
  right: 15px;
  position: fixed;
  overflow-x: scroll;
  border: 1px solid #ddd;
  white-space: nowrap;
}
.table-fixed-right td,
.table-fixed-right th {
  padding: 5px 10px;
}

<div class="table-fixed-left">
  <table>
    <tr>
      <th>Normal Header</th>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <th>Header with extra line
        <br/>&nbsp;</th>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <th>Normal Header</th>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <th>Normal with extra line
        <br/>&nbsp;</th>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <th>Normal Header</th>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <th>Normal Header</th>
    </tr>
  </table>
</div>
<div class="table-fixed-right">
  <table>
    <tr>
      <th>Header</th>
      <th>Another header</th>
      <th>Header</th>
      <th>Header really really really really long</th>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>Info Long</td>
      <td>Info
        <br/>with second line</td>
      <td>Info
        <br/>with second line</td>
      <td>Info Long</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>Info Long</td>
      <td>Info Long</td>
      <td>Info Long</td>
      <td>Info Long</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>Info
        <br/>with second line</td>
      <td>Info
        <br/>with second line</td>
      <td>Info
        <br/>with second line</td>
      <td>Info</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>Info</td>
      <td>Info</td>
      <td>Info</td>
      <td>Info</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>Info</td>
      <td>Info</td>
      <td>Info</td>
      <td>Info</td>
    </tr>
  </table>
</div>

Hope this helps anyone!

Answer 2

Adding another div to the Eamon Nerbonne's solution, gave me the following solution:

jsFiddle

Basically the solution is, if you add another parent div that controls the flow of the secondary div might give you a go.

<div class="first">
    <div class="second">
        <table>
            <tr><td class="headcol">1</td><td class="long">QWERTYUIOPASDFGHJKLZXCVBNM</td><td class="long">QWERTYUIOPASDFGHJKLZXCVBNM</td></tr>
            <tr><td class="headcol">2</td><td class="long">QWERTYUIOPASDFGHJKLZXCVBNM</td><td class="long">QWERTYUIOPASDFGHJKLZXCVBNM</td></tr>
            <tr><td class="headcol">3</td><td class="long">QWERTYUIOPASDFGHJKLZXCVBNM</td><td class="long">QWERTYUIOPASDFGHJKLZXCVBNM</td></tr>
            <tr><td class="headcol">4</td><td class="long">QWERTYUIOPASDFGHJKLZXCVBNM</td><td class="long">QWERTYUIOPASDFGHJKLZXCVBNM</td></tr>
            <tr><td class="headcol">5</td><td class="long">QWERTYUIOPASDFGHJKLZXCVBNM</td><td class="long">QWERTYUIOPASDFGHJKLZXCVBNM</td></tr>
            <tr><td class="headcol">6</td><td class="long">QWERTYUIOPASDFGHJKLZXCVBNM</td><td class="long">QWERTYUIOPASDFGHJKLZXCVBNM</td></tr>
            <tr><td class="headcol">7</td><td class="long">QWERTYUIOPASDFGHJKLZXCVBNM</td><td class="long">QWERTYUIOPASDFGHJKLZXCVBNM</td></tr>
            <tr><td class="headcol">8</td><td class="long">QWERTYUIOPASDFGHJKLZXCVBNM</td><td class="long">QWERTYUIOPASDFGHJKLZXCVBNM</td></tr>
            <tr><td class="headcol">9</td><td class="long">QWERTYUIOPASDFGHJKLZXCVBNM</td><td class="long">QWERTYUIOPASDFGHJKLZXCVBNM</td></tr>
        </table>
    </div>
</div>

I added style for the outer div like this:

div.first {
    width: auto;
    overflow-y: scroll;
    overflow-x: hidden;
    height: 150px;     /* this is the height that you expect to contain */      
    padding-bottom: 1px;
    position: absolute;
    left:0;
    top:auto;
}