AngularJS ng-table fixed headers

Question

I'm using ng-table to display some information. I would like to make the header and footer of the ng-table fixed and force the ng-table to draw scroll bars within the rows.

The ng-table documentation site has no documentation on how to make that happen.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

I don't know about the footer but I had a similar requirement for the headers.

This was requested before @ Github: https://github.com/esvit/ng-table/issues/41

I made my own implementation using a jquery plugin (https://github.com/jmosbech/StickyTableHeaders).

There is a plunkr here: http://plnkr.co/edit/KyilXo?p=preview

Basically we just call the plugin in the directive data-fixed-table-headers when the data has been rendered.

angular.module('main').directive('fixedTableHeaders', ['$timeout', fixedTableHeaders]);

    function fixedTableHeaders($timeout) {
        return {
            restrict: 'A',
            link: link
        };

        function link(scope, element, attrs) {

            $timeout(function () {
              element.stickyTableHeaders();
                    }, 0);
        }
    }

Answer 2

That is by far the most reliable solution that I found. And I've looked for hours before deciding to use a jQuery plugin. In the version of the plugin that I am using, we can stick the header to a scrollable container. Take a look at this plunker for a use case with ng-table:

http://plnkr.co/edit/ypBaDHIfaJWapXVs3jcU?p=preview

Javascript

app.directive('fixedTableHeaders', ['$timeout', function($timeout) {
  return {
    restrict: 'A',
    link: function(scope, element, attrs) {
      $timeout(function() {
          var container = element.parentsUntil(attrs.fixedTableHeaders);
          element.stickyTableHeaders({ scrollableArea: container, "fixedOffset": 2 });
      }, 0);
    }
  }
}]);   

HTML

<div id="scrollable-area">
      <table ng-table="tableParams" fixed-table-headers="scrollable-area">
        <tr ng-repeat="user in $data">
            <td data-title="'Name'">{{user.name}}</td>
            <td data-title="'Age'">{{user.age}}</td>
        </tr>
      </table>
</div>

CSS

#scrollable-area {
    height: 150px;
    overflow-y: scroll; /* <-- here is what is important*/
}
table {
  width: 100%;
}
thead {
    background: #fff;
}

Answer 3

this CSS-only solution worked for me. Just add the class table-scroll to the table element and the following CSS:

.table-scroll thead {
    display: table;
    width: 100%;
    table-layout: fixed;
}

.table-scroll tbody {
    max-height: 150px;
    overflow-y: auto;
    display: block;
    width: 100%;
    table-layout: fixed;
}

.table-scroll tr {
    display: table;
    table-layout: fixed;
    width: 100%;
}

.table-scroll td {
    height: 47px; // needed in order to keep rows from collapsing
}