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In many cases a table or grid needs to be created which does not fit comfortably on a page, it would therefore be useful if a scrolling option was available to enable users to scroll within a table whilst leaving any headers, if defined, in situ. I envisage this working much like an embeded <iframe> structure within the <table> e.g. <table scrollable=yes|no|horizontal|vertical|, headers=fixed, frame=200,400> in order to do this well we would need to define the 'display' size, including or excluding header columns/rows so the addtional options headers and frame are added
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