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  • Colin Tunnicliffe started the conversation

    Hi

    we have wpdatatables and we need to make sure the header row fixed.

    Have tried CSS and its not working.

    Please advise as its for a 200+row table!

    Cheers

  •  2,572
    Aleksandar replied

    Hello Colin

    Thank you for your purchase.

    Sorry to disappoint you but unfortunately something like this is not possible to achieve with the plugin built-in features at the moment or some simple CSS.

    Here is the suggestion from our customer that managed to achieve this

    "I actually created a fixed header and column using translation of x and y (no absolute or fixed position used), very similar to the fixed header provided by weihs5  on this site, and here's one solution, take a look:

    First of all, you gotta set the z-index for each component below:

    jQuery("#table td").css({"z-index": "-1", "position": "relative"});
    jQuery("table tr td:first-child").css({'z-index': '1', 'position': 'relative'});
    jQuery("table th:first-child").css({ 'z-index':'2','position':'relative'});

    Then you gotta add listener on scroll like this:

    jQuery('document').scroll(function () {
       scrollBlock();
    });
    

    If your table is set to be scrollable, then you might want to add this in as well:

    jQuery('.wdtscroll').scroll(function () {
     scrollBlock();
    });
    

    And here's the scrollBlock() part, it is ugly though, but it works for me though. (noted: the numbers work for my theme, if it is not working correctly on yours, then try to adjust the number until it fits.)

    function scrollBlock(){  var table = document.querySelector('table');
    var top = table.getBoundingClientRect().top;
    top = document.body.className.search('admin') > 0 ? top - 32 : top + 3; // this value can change
                var left = table.getBoundingClientRect().left;
                if(left >= 20){ // before scrolling left (before transforming)
                                    if(top >= 0){ // before reaching header bar
                        jQuery("#table_1 thead th").css("transform", "translateY(0px)");
                         translate(jQuery("table th:nth-child(1)"), 0, 0);
                         translate(jQuery("table td:nth-child(1)"), 0, 0);
                                        } else{ // after reaching header bar
                         jQuery("#table_1 thead th").css("transform", "translateY( " + (-top) + "px)");
                         translate(jQuery("table th:nth-child(1)"), 0, -top);
                         translate(jQuery("table td:nth-child(1)"), 0, 0);
                     }
                } else { // after scrolling left
                                    if(top >= 0){
                        jQuery("#table_1 thead th").css("transform", "translateY(0px)");
                        translate(jQuery("table th:nth-child(1)"), -left + 46, 0);
                        translate(jQuery("table td:nth-child(1)"), -left + 46, 0);
                                        } else{
                         jQuery("#table_1 thead th").css("transform", "translateY( " + (-top) + "px)");
                         translate(jQuery("table th:nth-child(1)"), -left + 46, -top);
                         translate(jQuery("table td:nth-child(1)"), -left + 46, 0);
                         }
                    }
                }
    function translate(element, x, y) {
    var translation = "translate(" + x + "px," + y + "px)"
    element.css({
          "transform": translation,
           "-ms-transform": translation,
              "-webkit-transform": translation,
         "-o-transform": translation,
          "-moz-transform": translation,
       });
    }
    

    It is kind of messy, you definitely can't copy and paste and expect it to work for you. You need to spend some time to figure it out. Hope this helps everyone!"

    So hopefully this can help you out.

    Kind Regards, 

    Aleksandar Vuković
    [email protected]

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