HTML table headers always visible at top of window when viewing a large table

Question

I would like to be able to "tweak" an HTML table's presentation to add a single feature: when scrolling down through the page so that the table is on the screen but the header rows are off-screen, I would like the headers to remain visible at the top of the viewing area.

This would be conceptually like the "freeze panes" feature in Excel. However, an HTML page might contain several tables in it and I only would want it to happen for the table that is currently in-view, only while it is in-view.

Note: I've seen one solution where the table data area is made scrollable while the headers do not scroll. That's not the solution I'm looking for.

Answer 1

I've made a proof-of-concept solution using jQuery.

View sample here.

I've now got this code in a Mercurial bitbucket repository. The main file is tables.html.

I'm aware of one issue with this: if the table contains anchors, and if you open the URL with the specified anchor in a browser, when the page loads, the row with the anchor will probably be obscured by the floating header.

Update 2017-12-11: I see this doesn't work with current Firefox (57) and Chrome (63). Not sure when and why this stopped working, or how to fix it. But now, I think the accepted answer by Hendy Irawan is superior.