Learn how to create HTML Table with a fixed header and scrollable body

Issue

I am trying to make a table with fixed header and a scrollable content using the bootstrap 3 table. Unfortunately the solutions I have found does not work with bootstrap or mess up the style.

Here there is a simple bootstrap table, but for some reason to me unknown the height of the tbody is not 10px.

height: 10px !important; overflow: scroll;

Example:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="//netdna.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.0.3/css/bootstrap.min.css">

<table class="table table-striped">
    <thead>
    <tr>
        <th>Make</th>
        <th>Model</th>
        <th>Color</th>
        <th>Year</th>
    </tr>
    </thead>
    <tbody style="height: 10px !important; overflow: scroll; ">
    <tr>
        <td class="filterable-cell">111 Ford</td>
        <td class="filterable-cell">Escort</td>
        <td class="filterable-cell">Blue</td>
        <td class="filterable-cell">2000</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td class="filterable-cell">Ford</td>
        <td class="filterable-cell">Escort</td>
        <td class="filterable-cell">Blue</td>
        <td class="filterable-cell">2000</td>
    </tr>
            <tr>
        <td class="filterable-cell">Ford</td>
        <td class="filterable-cell">Escort</td>
        <td class="filterable-cell">Blue</td>
        <td class="filterable-cell">2000</td>
    </tr>
     <tr>
        <td class="filterable-cell">Ford</td>
        <td class="filterable-cell">Escort</td>
        <td class="filterable-cell">Blue</td>
        <td class="filterable-cell">2000</td>
    </tr>
    </tbody>
    
</table>

Solution

Here is the working solution:

table {
    width: 100%;
}

thead, tbody, tr, td, th { display: block; }

tr:after {
    content: ' ';
    display: block;
    visibility: hidden;
    clear: both;
}

thead th {
    height: 30px;

    /*text-align: left;*/
}

tbody {
    height: 120px;
    overflow-y: auto;
}

thead {
    /* fallback */
}


tbody td, thead th {
    width: 19.2%;
    float: left;
}

<link href="http://netdna.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.0.3/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet"/>

<table class="table table-striped">
    <thead>
        <tr>
            <th>Make</th>
            <th>Model</th>
            <th>Color</th>
            <th>Year</th>
        </tr>
    </thead>
    <tbody>
        <tr>
            <td class="filterable-cell">Ford</td>
            <td class="filterable-cell">Escort</td>
            <td class="filterable-cell">Blue</td>
            <td class="filterable-cell">2000</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td class="filterable-cell">Ford</td>
            <td class="filterable-cell">Escort</td>
            <td class="filterable-cell">Blue</td>
            <td class="filterable-cell">2000</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td class="filterable-cell">Ford</td>
            <td class="filterable-cell">Escort</td>
            <td class="filterable-cell">Blue</td>
            <td class="filterable-cell">2000</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td class="filterable-cell">Ford</td>
            <td class="filterable-cell">Escort</td>
            <td class="filterable-cell">Blue</td>
            <td class="filterable-cell">2000</td>
        </tr>
    </tbody>
</table>

Link to jsfiddle

Answered By - giulio