10 Best JavaScript Plugins For Sticky Table Header (2023 Update)

Having a sticky table header is essential to providing a great user experience for large HTML tables that contain large size of data.

With a sticky table header plugin, you can make the table header (typically <thead> element) fixed on the top of the page (or its parent container) when scrolling down.

Here is a list of 10 best and open-source Vanilla JavaScript & jQuery Plugins to fix the position of the table header and make it always visible while scrolling.

Originally Published Oct 07 2020, updated Mar 12 2023

Table of contents:

• jQuery Sticky Table Header Plugins
• Vanilla JS Sticky Table Header Plugins

Best jQuery Sticky Table Header Plugins

jQuery Plugin To Fix Table header When Scrolling - floatThead

A jQuery sticky table header plugin that freezes your table thead element at top of the page/container when scrolling.

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jQuery Plugin For Sticky Table Headers

A lightweight and useful jQuery plugin that makes your table thead elements sticky as the page scrolls down. It is good for a long list of fairly uniform tabular data.

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Create Tables With Fixed Headers, Footers, And Columns - jQuery Fixedheadertable.js

A tiny jQuery plugin developed to create HTML tables with fixed headers, footers, and columns.

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Freeze Table Thead At Top Of The Page - jQuery table-fixed-header

Yet another jQuery fixed table header plugin which makes the thead sticking to the top of the screen on page scroll. Supports table rowspan and colspan attributes.

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Freeze Table Headers & Columns With jQuery - fixedThead

A lightweight, performant jquery plugin which allows freezing table headers and even table columns in place on page scrolling.

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Best Vanilla JS Sticky Table Header Libraries

JavaScript Library For Fixed Table Rows And Columns – fixed_table.js

A pure JavaScript library that makes your large table scrollable with fixed rows and columns.

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Custom Fixed Table Header In JavaScript – stickyThead.js

An easy yet configurable sticky table header library that sticks the thead of an HTML table to the top of the page with or without offset.

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Create Sticky Table Headers Using JavaScript – sticky-table.js

This sticky table header library supports all screen sizes. Table headers that stick to the top of your table as a user scrolls down. This library is for both desktop and mobile, it uses your content to calculate height so the headers can be shown correctly on all screen sizes.

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Lightweight JavaScript Library For Sticky Table Header – lrStickyHeader

An easy and lightweight JavaScript library that makes you table’s thead stick to the top of the webpage when scrolling down.

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Fix Table Header And Column In Pure JavaScript – fixed-table

A small and very easy-to-use JavaScript plugin that makes the header and first column of your HTML table sticky on horizontal and vertical scroll.

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More Resources:

Seeking more jQuery plugins or JavaScript libraries to create sticky header in HTML tables? See jQuery Sticky Table Header and JavaScript Sticky Table Header sections for more details.

See Also:

• 10 Best Table Pagination Plugins
• 10 Best Data Table/Grid Systems In JavaScript
• 10 Best Responsive Table Plugins In JavaScript And CSS
• 10 Best JavaScript Plugins To Sort Table By Columns
• 10 Best Table Filtering Plugin In JavaScript
• 10 Best Table Export Plugins In JavaScript
• 10 Best Sticky Header Navigation Systems In JavaScript
• 10 Best Sticky Sidebar Plugins In JavaScript