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floatThead
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mkoryak / floatThead

floatThead

Fixed <thead>. Doesn't need any custom css/html. Does what position:sticky can't

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Fixed <thead>. Doesn't need any custom css/html. Does what position:sticky can't

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Observed mentions: 2018-03-16 21:02:02 UTC to 2021-08-20 06:59:54 UTC.

0122018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20182019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2021

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20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202

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For anyone who wants to implement this, please _don't_ implement it like the GIF. <https://github.com/mkoryak/floatThead/blob/master/README.md> Instead, do what mobile web browsers do, where the header is automatically revealed and overlaid onto the content when scrolling up. On desktop, you can make it so the headers are also revealed when mousing around over the relevant data. But indiscriminately reducing the size of the viewport by going sticky is incredibly annoying.
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I recently had a choice between being an ass or being nice to a guy asking a really basic question about my open source project[1]. At first I was going to tell him to read the docs and that I didnt have time but I decided to help the guy out. He ended up running into an bug that had been open for almost a year but I never got around to fixing because of an existing workaround. Anyway, I was slightly embarrassed and ended up tracking down the bug and closing it out. It pays to be nice. [1]: https://github.com/mkoryak/floatThead/issues/408
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