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Playing around with this fiddle https://jsfiddle.net/zinoui/BmLpV/
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fixed-column-table.html
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>Fancy HTML Table</title>
<meta http-equiv="x-ua-compatible" content="ie=edge">
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="description" content="">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale = 1.0, maximum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="main.css">
<style>
body {
max-width: 40em;
margin: 5em auto;
}
th {
border-top: 1px solid black;
background-color: beige;
}
th,
td {
border-bottom: 1px solid black;
border-right: 1px solid black;
border-collapse: collapse;
border-spacing: 0;
white-space: wrap;
}
th:first-child,
td:first-child {
border: none;
border-top: 1px solid black;
}
table {
border: none;
border-collapse: separate;
border-spacing: 0;
}
th,
td {
padding: 1em;
}
td {
padding-bottom: 10px;
}
.wrapper {
position: relative;
background-color: bisque;
width: 40em;
padding-right: 200px;
}
.container {
width: 40em;
overflow: auto;
margin-left: 200px; /* offset the width of col1 */
/* border-left: 1px solid red; */
}
.col1 {
width: 168px; /* magic number */
position: absolute;
left: 0;
top: auto;
background-color: azure;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="wrapper">
<div class="container">
<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th class="col1">Fixed Column</th>
<th>Data 1</th>
<th>Data 2</th>
<th>Data 3</th>
<th>Data 4</th>
<th>Data 5</th>
<th>Data 6</th>
<th>Data 7</th>
<th>Data 8</th>
<th>Data 9</th>
<th>Data 10</th>
<th>Data 5</th>
<th>Data 6</th>
<th>Data 7</th>
<th>Data 8</th>
<th>Data 9</th>
<th>Data 10</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td class="col1">COLUMN 1</td>
<td>Some data stuff</td>
<td>Some data stuff</td>
<td>Some data stuff</td>
<td>Some data stuff</td>
<td>Some data stuff</td>
<td>Some data stuff</td>
<td>Some data stuff</td>
<td>Some data stuff</td>
<td>Some data stuff</td>
<td>Some data stuff</td>
<td>Some data stuff</td>
<td>Some data stuff</td>
<td>Some data stuff</td>
<td>Some data stuff</td>
<td>Some data stuff</td>
<td>Some data stuff</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
</div>
<!-- external scripts -->
<script src="main.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
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