Ken,
I'm trying to grasp the basics of scrolling to a particular row in a > TABLE. > > Let's say you've got a TABLE, with a TBODY that has a fixed height and > overflow: scroll. > > It appears I ought to be able to use core functions like offset() and > scrollTop() to work out where a row is and scroll the TBODY to that > position, but lots of trial and error has left me lost on why these > things don't seem to work as I expect. > > The particular case I am looking at involves the user using arrow keys > to navigate up and down. Its easy enough to use .next() to highlight > the next row, but if a user keeps doing it, and the next row is below > the viewable scroll region, I need to be able to slide up the display > to show the highlighted row. > > This is an educational venture, not a practical one, I'd like to > understand it myself, not find and use a plugin that does it already. > Scrolling with the TBODY tag is spotty. IE6 doesn't support it at all--you need to place your table in a DIV that has a fixed height and overflow set to scroll. I'm not sure what browsers you're targeting, but if IE6 was one you were having problems with, this is why. -Dan
