make it optional to merge row_headers with same data
skokenes opened this issue · 1 comments
Feature Request
Description of Problem:
When using row headers, sometimes I do not want the headers to be hierarchical. However, I still want to maintain the sticky positioning of the row header columns, which is why I would like to use them.
For example, I may want to see row headers like so:
| Country | City |
|---|---|
| USA | Atlanta |
| USA | SF |
| Canada | Ontario |
Potential Solutions:
It would be nice if there was a setting for the rows to enable/disable the th merging based on shared values.
An alternative that I've considered is implementing these "row headers" as normal td elements within the table, but then I have to go through the exercise of trying to reimplement the sticky behavior. And I suspect there will be problems with making that work with the virtual scroll properly.
One userland workaround for this would be to add a zero-width space (U+200B) character on alternating rows, so that regular-table never tries to merge any two rows. Its kind of a pain to have to do this, but does work at least