Question

I would like to have a table on my website. The problem is that this table will have about 400 lines. How can I limit the table’s height, and apply scrollbar to it?
This is my code:

<div class="span3">
  <h2>Achievements left</h2>
<table class="table table-striped">
  <thead>
    <tr>
      <th>#</th>
      <th>Name</th>
    </tr>
  </thead>
  <tbody>
    <tr>
      <td>1</td>
      <td>Something</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>2</td>
      <td>Something</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>3</td>
      <td>Something</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>4</td>
      <td>Something</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>5</td>
      <td>Something</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>6</td>
      <td>Something</td>
    </tr>
  </tbody>
</table>

  <p><a class="btn" href="#">View details &raquo;</a></p>
</div>

I tried to apply max-height and fixed height to table, but it doesn’t work.

Answer 1

Table elements don’t appear to support this directly. Place the table in a div and set the height of the div and set overflow: auto.