I want to reproduce Google's spreadsheet behaviour with frozen first row and first col, in htmlm with little additions. This is done inside a web browser, so it's a site, page or web app (written in React, if that even matters, cuz question is mostly about css). Lets start with layout:
Availble view space of the page is separated in 3 distinct areas:
100% width, variable height Header, attached to top
Main View, occupying space between header and footer
100% width, variable height Footer, attached to bottom
Main View is then gonna to be split into two sections:
Menu of variable width, attached to the left-side
Table view, occupying remaining width
And Table view should have following properties:
Table area is scrollable, except
First row, where table headers must remain always visible
First column, where order No # of item must be always visible
I am stucked of a good and straightforward implementation. I gave up using <table> because it has no power to implement it, so clever <div> handling most probably would do the trick.
My question is How to write css for that layout? Lets omit layout html/jsx, I think its obvious. What css structure and classes would you suggest to me for this particular task?
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I am creating a table where I need to freeze some cell while keeping the other cell scrollable. The table must be responsive to screen size that is why I need to make some cell scrollable.
Based on the picture above, I want to keep the blue area floating/or freeze while the red area scrollable.
How is this possible in google app maker?
First of all, this widget that you refer to as a table in your sample screen is actually a composite widget where it combines several basic widgets like the list, horizontal panel, and pager.
There is another table widget under charts, called Table chart, that can be used to present your data in rows and columns. But if you are looking for a property that can achieve this UI effect, then I'm afraid AppMaker does not support this yet.
If you are really keen to make this work, I would suggest that you combine two table widgets that inherit the same data source then wrap them SIDE-BY-SIDE in a horizontal panel. The left side will only contain columns that you want to freeze while the right size will have the rest of the column that can be scrollable.
Make sure to set the height of both tables to auto-grow based on the content (Fit to content). This will give the effect that the two tables are merged when doing vertical scrolling.
I have here a sample implementation as I described above. I gave a background to the main container to better understand the concept. I also added a small gap to show that I used two table widgets.
Here is the set-up in editor view (screen-shot)
See it in action here (video)
I am trying to make a basic wireframe design before I add colours, etc. As seen in the two pictures below, the sizing of the layouts is very different in designer and when the program is run. I have tried changing the layout stretch but it has no effect.
Designer:
Running program:
You need to decide what should happen when the window is resized larger than the size shown in Qt Designer. Presumably, you don't want the "Logo" and "Date" rows to expand to take up the extra vertical space, and you don't want the "Modules" row to expand either. So the extra space will have to go at the bottom.
The simplest way to achieve that is to put an expanding spacer immediately below the "Modules" row, but inside the outer layout. This will push everything up against the top of the window, and only allow space to grow at the bottom.
Context for this question
We have a web page that has two scrolling grids, not paginated grids. When the first grid is nearly empty, occasional users do not realize they can scroll down to see the second grid. Other layouts (tabs, etc. are not a desirable solution).
Aside. The entire page layout is due for an overhaul, but on the Development schedule it's still 2 years away. Today, we cannot remove the grids, and we cannot change the general layout of this page.
When the first grid contains very little content, it would be good to auto-shorten the first grid so that the second grid peeks up above the fold. But when the first grid has lots of content, it's better if the first grid remains at its default height, because this grid is where the main interaction takes place, and we don't want excessive scrolling.
The challenge is that, in the grids, each row varies in height to fit its content. Sometimes a row is 2 lines of text, sometimes 12 lines of text. This causes a hard-coded height based on the number or rows inappropriate.
The question
What methods are there to assess the height of the row content in the first grid so that, if the total is less than the default grid height, we can shorten the grid? Or is there another way to look at this problem?
I want to create fixed szie page, without common scrollbar. Scrollbars have only two div's, where content content goes beyond of div (contend data and sidebar listing area) as on picture. I alreay did it without bs3, and use javascript (for calculate new offsets on page resize).
http://i.imgur.com/4kesDk7.jpg
Today I tried to create fixed size template with Bootrstrap3, but i can't do it. It's possible to do using bs3? Anybody can show how it is done?
I tried modify this code http://www.bootply.com/0FG70wcT3B. I do left and right headers.
I am using Telerik's Radgrid for a website. Often the grid columns exceed the available width, and extend outside the main content area (fixed width).
So what are my options for presenting very wide grids. horizontal scroll bars just look ugly on my site
Your choices are a combination of the following:
Smaller fonts
Consolidate some cells to have more than one row (e.g. if you have a "start date" and "end date" put the start date on top and the end date on the bottom.
Widen the window
Make some cells appear conditionally (based on user-defined filters). Maybe the most frequently used cells appear normally and a checkbox unhides the less frequently used cells or groups of cells.
Allow horizontal scrolling
Make the window a fluid width
Popup data in a floating <div> via javascript instead of putting it in a column
Am I missing anything?
i am using telerik controls too, one thing i have learned after a lot of work with them is their CSS is usually good, but i also face your problem, and here is my advise.
what Keltex said.
always add a custom class to your Rad Grid where you do fix those nasty stuff.
don't use fixed width for Grid, instead use it on columns and make the grid Fluid, so does the page.
hope this helps.
I agree with devmania and making the grid fluid, I had a similar problem recently. So I made a few of my columns nowrap and left the rest to wrap. It doesn't look great on smaller screens but it's still usable because I've stopped things like date+time columns wrapping. However, once you start using it on a wider screen it looks great.
It all depends on how much of a scrollbar you have. Is it possible to strip out some of the columns and have that information in a popup/flyout somewhere?
Another option is to make which columns are shown user configurable, but you're not really addressing the problem, just making it the responsibility of the user to make it look nice.
If you can't get rid of the horizontal scrollbar you should at least try to put the more important columns first so that your users don't have to scroll to the right very often.