How to create non-scrolling Lotus Domino view headers on the Web

How to create non-scrolling Lotus Domino view headers on the Web

Formatting Lotus Domino views is not as easy as forms and other design elements. I also never liked that I could not get the Lotus Domino view headers to stay put when scrolling. The technique I explain here uses some simple style sheet entries to prevent scrolling of Lotus Domino view headers on the Web.

This would be used in a form or page where an embedded view is used.

  1. The first part below is the named html <Div> tag, in this case 'MyView', inside which you will embed your chosen view. 
    <div id="MyView">embedded view here</div>
  2. Next is the style sheet tags that will make the view scrollable, with it's own "window" size. Notice the reference to the named <Div> tag 'MyView' used with the embedded view. 
    div#MyView {
width: 500px;
height: 300px;
overflow: auto;
}

    The width and height settings control the size of the scrollable window, so the page scrolling can be eliminated.

  3. The next style sheet tags work with the Lotus Domino view's <TH> table tags, which are rendered automatically by the Lotus Domino server. 
    th {
position:relative;
cursor: default;
top: expression
(document.getElementById("MyView").scrollTop-2);
z-index: 20;
padding-left: 3px;
padding-right: 3px;
background-color: blue;
}

Again, notice the reference to the named <Div> tag 'MyView' in the expression. This only works for Internet Explorer, but likely can easily be made to work

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with most other browsers.

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This was first published in August 2006

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