Webmaster Forum / HTML, CSS, Scripts / CSS / December 2005

Extensive Google searching for more than a couple of hours has not provided
me with a satisfactory answer to this question:

  How can I make scrollable TBODY elements in tables which:

  * create a vertical scrollbar that DOES NOT occupy the content
    space of the last column of table cells such that it obscures
    that content in any way within that last column of cells
    (irrespective of whether the text remains "intelligible")

  * do NOT make use of scripting tricks which determine computed widths
    of all table features (table/table row/table cell element margins,
    borders, padding, etc) and then re-draw scrollbars...this especially
    won't work in the script-disabled browsers of paranoid users.

  * do not make use of non-standard, browser-specific CSS properties?

If the only way to make this work in the major browsers and requires
browser-specific properties, then what are they?

I do script coding/style markup/document markup in FF1.5 (largely because
its debugging interface is easy/clean), but I double-check if things work
in IE6 too.

Your response is much appreciated...and forever remembered if it is the one
that works.