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There are quite a collection of gimmics to achieve "freeze panes" effect with HTML tables. I would request that this would be added as a standard feature into next CSS specification. References: 1) Fixed column and row: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11815882/make-first-column-fixed-and-next-column-scrollable-in-html-table 2) Header visible on window scroll: http://s.codepen.io/boomerang/4b21d3f43bded35050690d81e643e88a1394937692185/index.html