# HTML Tables with Horizontal Scroll and Sticky Headers

DevFeed: [HTML Tables with Horizontal Scroll and Sticky Headers](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/html-tables-with-horizontal-scroll-and-sticky-headers-37593.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.taniarascia.com/horizontal-scroll-fixed-headers-table/>)

Author: hello@taniarascia.com

Published: 2024-10-09T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Tania Rascia](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/tania-rascia.md>)

Topics: [HTML](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/html.md>), [Web Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/web-development.md>), [modern web development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/modern-web-development.md>)

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## AI overview

A tutorial on building HTML tables that support horizontal scrolling and sticky headers. It explains why sticky positioning can fail inside an overflow container and presents a table-wrapper height as the solution, producing a vertically and horizontally scrollable datagrid-style view.

## Source excerpt

Turns out, creating an HTML table that has both horizontal scroll and fixed headers can be a tricky problem. As another developer said about...