I spent the better part of the last couple of days trying to find a good plugin that supports fixed header and column in a table.  There are several out there that look like they have gone stale (no recent updates).  Most of them are reliant on a fixed table size and/or fixed column widths.  Without a lot of work, none were perfect in lining up columns and headers for scrolling and all made use of multiple cropped tables to fix the columns and headers.

 

All of this was too much work for a small table (~ 50 columns x 100 rows).

 

Then it dawned on me, why play games with trying to line up columns and headers when the table does that for me, all I need to do is hide columns and rows!  Firefox and Chrome handle this with fairly smooth scrolling.  IE doesn't handle it as smoothly. If anyone has any thoughts on how to speed this up for IE or in general, I would love to hear it.

 

Demo file is attached.