Add horizontal scrollbar to html table

Question

Is there a way to add a Horizontal scrollbar to an HTML table? I actually need it to be scrollable both vertically and horizontally depending on how the table grows but I can't get either scrollbar to appear.

Answer 1

Wrap the table in a DIV, set with the following style:

div.wrapper {
  width: 500px;
  height: 500px;
  overflow: auto;
}

Answer 2

First, make a display: block of your table

then, set overflow-x: to auto.

table {
        display: block;
        overflow-x: auto;
        white-space: nowrap;
    }

Nice and clean. No superfluous formatting.

Here are more involved examples with scrolling table captions from a page on my website.

Answer 3

//Representation of table
<div class="search-table-outter">
<table class="table table-responsive search-table inner">
</table>
</div>

//Css to make Horizontal Dropdown

<style>

    .search-table{table-layout: auto; margin:40px auto 0px auto; }
    .search-table, td, th {
        border-collapse: collapse;
    }
th{padding:20px 7px; font-size:15px; color:#444;}
td{padding:5px 10px; height:35px;}
    .search-table-outter { overflow-x: scroll; }
th, td { min-width: 200px; }


</style>

Answer 4

I couldn't get any of the above solutions to work. However, I found a hack:

body {
  background-color: #ccc;
}

.container {
  width: 300px;
  background-color: white;
}

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

td {
  border: 1px solid black;
}

/* try removing the "hack" below to see how the table overflows the .body */
.hack1 {
  display: table;
  table-layout: fixed;
  width: 100%;
}

.hack2 {
  display: table-cell;
  overflow-x: auto;
  width: 100%;
}

<div class="container">

  <div class="hack1">
    <div class="hack2">

      <table>
        <tr>
          <td>table or other arbitrary content</td>
          <td>that will cause your page to stretch</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td>uncontrollably</td>
          <td>xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx</td>
        </tr>
      </table>

    </div>
  </div>

</div>

Answer 5

Use the CSS attribute "overflow" for this.

Short summary:

overflow: visible|hidden|scroll|auto|initial|inherit;

e.g.

table {
    display: block;
    overflow: scroll;
}