Pivot Tables do not work with Confluence 5.8 sticky headers

[Douglas Swartz]

Confluence 5.8 included an enhancement to keep headers from scrolling off the top of the page when a table is long. Unfortunately Pivot tables, apparently, do not follow the rules, and the header row of a long pivot table scrolls off the page.

Atlassian details rules for when this feature is supposed to work here: https://confluence.atlassian.com/conf58/tables-771892006.html

It appears the rules Atlassian laid out are not complete. Pivot tables have <TH> tags, but still do not render correctly with a sticky header. It could be because Atlassian appears to not use a <THEAD>, but instead puts the TH tags in the first TR row of the TBODY element.

Regardless, my users would really like to have sticky headers.

Thanks

[Xavier Arques]

Hi Doug

I perform some tests and that is the conclusion: The sticky header doesn't work with the Pivot Table because it has a header column (the first column)

First I tried to put all the table in the <TBODY>, but it was not sufficient.

Then I remove the header column (by replacing <TH> by <TR> in the first column), it works fine but the Pivot looks differently (The first column is no more grey).

So I hesitate to deliver this modification as it will change the look and feel for all the Pivot table users and I don't want to add a new parameter to manage this sticky headers requirement

Any suggestion ?

Thanks