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

by jQueryScript,

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

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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.

jQuery Plugin To Fix Table header When Scrolling - floatThead

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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.

jQuery Plugin For Sticky Table Headers

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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.

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

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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.

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

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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.

Freeze Table Headers & Columns With jQuery - fixedThead

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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.

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

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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.

Custom Fixed Table Header In JavaScript – stickyThead.js

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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.

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

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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.

Lightweight JavaScript Library For Sticky Table Header – lrStickyHeader

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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.

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

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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.

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