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Freezing Column Titles using FP2K


I'm new to FP

How do I "freeze" col titles (a la Excel) so that as I scroll down, the title heads stay in place?

If FP cannot do this officially, are there any work-arounds?

Thank you
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I could think of possibly using frames or CSS to keep things maybe in place?  Not too sure if you want to use that or not.  That is a special feature in Excel.

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I know, but I also know enough about M$ to suspect if you can do this in Access and Excel, this ability lurks in FP though no doubt it is NOT called this -- I just have a gut feeling there is a work-a-round at least

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Hi zyzzyva57,

If I understand your question, this can be done using scrollable tables quite easily - do you still have a need for this?
I would still be most interested in finding out about "scrollable tables"

Miles
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Qt: I'm still new to FP, so I need some farther help: how can I see the above in action? Call up FP, go to a new web page, then "HTML", and finally "Preview"

I've done this, but seem to be missing a step.

I look forward seeing this, because you are the only one that has even come close with a solution I want

Thank you,

Miles
You seem to be doing the correct steps - I'll outline them here for you:

1. Copy (Ctrl-C) everything from above starting with <html> and ending with </html>

2. Open Notepad (or whichever text editor you use) and paste (Ctrl-V) the contents.

3. Open FP, create a new page, save it as test.html, and click on the HTML tab.

4. Select everything on the page (Ctrl - A)  and click delete. You now have a completely blank page.

5. Paste (Ctrl-V) everything from Notepad into the FP HTML screen.

6. Select File > Save or simply click on the floppy disk icon in the toolbar.

7. Select File > Preview in Browser or click on the Preview tab in FP to see the table in action.

Note: You cannot copy and paste from my code above directly into FP - you must paste it into Notepad first.

Let me know...

I will sure try this, but it may be a day or two before I get a chance

I am really looking forward trying this
No problem.
I've posted an example for you to look at:

http://www.pdgmedia.com/scrolling.html

IT WORKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

FANTASTIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I will accept your ans, most definitely

Awesome

I'm accepting first by commenting so I can up the points and sneak in another short 2 qts...

Why in the HTML tab many times there is coding I can only see when I highlight?

Why do I have to use Notepad to make the transition?  Going from here to FP puts in hidden stuff?


Thank you for your answer and patiennce

Miles
Hi Miles,

>> coding I can only see when I highlight?

I'm not 100% sure what you mean by that, but it may be the color of the code that FP is generating. You can change that by going to:
Tools > Page Options > Color Coding.  It's possible that the color of some types of code is white or very light. If it's not that, please let me know.

>>Why do I have to use Notepad to make the transition?
This is because the code that you see here "on" the screen is created by code "behind" the screen.

So if I write <html> and you paste that into the html view of FP, you'll get &lt;html&gt;
&lt; is the code that generates <  and  &gt; is the code that generates > 

That markup won't work - so you need to paste code from the screen into Notepad to make it plain text (not generated text) and then into FP. It's a pain - but necessary.

Thanks Miles,
GM

Outstanding

Nice working with you

I am making a hard copy of your code so I can go through it line by line, because I don't understand how parts of it work -- I need to be able to adapt the code

I have a web site that suits my need, but everytime I try to make it look less bz, I dunno, in the end, I guess I need it bz for what I want the site for, i.e., helping teenagers

http://linkamerica.net/milescannon/index.htm

I think your suggestion may enable me to slow down the "bz" look of my tbls, yet have tbls

Again, thank you