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by luffy 5489 days ago
Does HTML5 have an element that is similar to an scrollable editable grid, with column headers that don't scroll? I know a lot of people hate that UI idiom, but it's very common and as long as people like to use Excel, this idiom isn't going anywhere.

Doing grids are a breeze w/ .NET. I don't think "use jqgrid" is an acceptable solution here... I'm asking about native HTML, the stuff that everyone is bragging about.

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There are at least dozens if not hundreds of such grids done with html and javascript.
I tried a few of the most popular ones last year, none were satisfactory.
ExtJS's set of grid panels was just about the most impressive one I've seen thus far (tree grids, group grids, paging grids, features for filtering/searching, sorting, hide/show columns, binding to xml/json/direct, etc). Though it would probably huge overkill to tie yourself into the whole framework just for one widget.

Examples: http://www.sencha.com/products/extjs/examples/#sample-2

yeah see also dojo's grid (grids I should say, there are several)

jquery.sheet

yui grid

not sure if Google's closure library has a grid control

and of course there are GWT, qooxdoo, etc.

Heres a table comparing javascript frameworks, and there's a row for which have a grid control.