HTML Grid(Table) with (fixed header + horizontal scroll + vertical scroll) using DIV.
Problem
FLEX GRID like layout in HTML with horizontal and verticalscroll
Solution
Recently i faced a problem to to generate FLEX kind of grid layout in HTML. After reviewing lot of articles, i didn't find any good solution. Yes.there are some examples which uses TABLE tag. For performance reason i always prefer DIV. Here is my simple method to produce grid layout.
Detailed explanation
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html id="doc" style="width: 100%; height: 100%">
<head>
<title>Grid View Example</title>
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, minimum-scale: 1, maximum-scale: 1">
<!--jQuery Mobile-->
<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.7.1.min.js"></script>
<script>
function InitApp()
{
var gridHeight = 400;
var gridWidth = 500;
var scrollBarWidth = getScrollSizes(); //get scroll bar's width.
$("#div-header").css("width", (gridWidth - scrollBarWidth) + "px");
$("#div-header-hack").css("width", (scrollBarWidth) + "px");
$("#div-item").css("width", (gridWidth) + "px");
$("#div-header-hack").css("left", (gridWidth - scrollBarWidth) + "px");
$("#div-item").css("max-height", (gridHeight) + "px");
//add header and item divs, directly in HTML Or in javascript.
var header = '<div style="min-width: 1000px;">' +
'<div style="width: 120px; display: inline-block">Header 1</div>' +
'<div style="width: 180px; display: inline-block">Header 2</div>' +
'<div style="width: 120px; display: inline-block">Header 3</div>' +
'<div style="width: 190px; display: inline-block">Header 4</div>' +
'<div style="width: 250px; display: inline-block">Header 5</div>' +
'<div style="width: 120px; display: inline-block">Header 6</div>' +
'</div>';
//add header and item divs, directly in HTML Or in javascript.
var item = '<div style="min-width: 1000px; background-color: #D7BDEC; padding: 10px 0px 0px 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid gray">' +
'<div style="width: 120px; display: inline-block">Item 1</div>' +
'<div style="width: 180px; display: inline-block">Item 2</div>' +
'<div style="width: 120px; display: inline-block">Item 3</div>' +
'<div style="width: 190px; display: inline-block">Item 4</div>' +
'<div style="width: 250px; display: inline-block">Item 5</div>' +
'<div style="width: 120px; display: inline-block">Item 6</div>' +
'</div>';
$("#div-header").append(header);
for(var index = 0; index < 600; index ++)
{
$("#div-item").append(item);
}
}
function ScrollHeader()
{
$("#div-header").scrollLeft($("#div-item").scrollLeft());
}
//refernce - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/457262/html-what-is-the-height-of-a-horizontal-scrollbar
function getScrollSizes()
{
// call after document is finished loading
var el= document.createElement('div');
el.style.display= 'hidden';
el.style.overflow= 'scroll';
document.body.appendChild(el);
var h= el.offsetHeight-el.clientHeight;
document.body.removeChild(el);
return h;
}
</script>
</head>
<body id="doc-body" style="width: 100%; height: 100%; overflow: hidden; position: fixed" onload="InitApp()">
<div>
<!--If you don't need header background color you don't need this div.-->
<div id="div-header-hack" style="height: 20px; position: absolute; background-color: gray"></div>
<div id="div-header" style="position: absolute; top: 0px; overflow: hidden; height: 20px; background-color: gray">
</div>
<div id="div-item" style="position: absolute; top: 20px; overflow: auto" onscroll="ScrollHeader()">
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
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