HTML table headers always visible at top of window when viewing a large table

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I’ve made a proof-of-concept solution using jQuery.

View sample here.

I’ve now got this code in a Mercurial bitbucket repository. The main file is tables.html.

I’m aware of one issue with this: if the table contains anchors, and if you open the URL with the specified anchor in a browser, when the page loads, the row with the anchor will probably be obscured by the floating header.

Update 2017-12-11: I see this doesn’t work with current Firefox (57) and Chrome (63). Not sure when and why this stopped working, or how to fix it. But now, I think the accepted answer by Hendy Irawan is superior.

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