Sticky header in list view

[Jeroen_Sarink]

The issue

We're working with list views that show a lot of numeric data for each record. When scrolling down, the header row moves up along with the records, so it immediately disappears from view and all numbers (which don't have any horizontal separator either) become a big blur of numbers. 

 

What is the proposed idea/solution?

It would be great if there would be options to:

• Enable a sticky header
• Show a subtle vertical line to separate columns
• Color or otherwise format columns

 

How does is solve the user problems?

I believe any of the above options would greatly help in keeping (large) list views readable.

[JLindem]

I can see that you're using the interface, and sadly, these don't have many options for customisation. However, in the normal Airtable views, the field names are always shown at the top. Perhaps changing to the grid view in the interface accomplishes what you need? 

[Jeroen_Sarink]

Thanks for your suggestion! Indeed - the screenshot that I added was of a List with just one level, so a grid could replace that quite well.

However, we also use List views with multiple levels which we can't replace with grids. These list also consist of a few hundred records, so we're bound to scroll down at some point.

It seems like pretty natural UI behavior to me that a header shouldn't disappear from view when scrolling through data, so I hope this will be picked up by Airtable at some point.

[JLindem]

The interfaces have a lot more to be desired... I have seen many feature requests for the interfaces here, but I doubt they'll add much to it. 

I can recommend that you have a look at a 3rd party portal or interface builder. For example Stacker, Softr, or Noloco.

[Jeroen_Sarink]

Thanks for your suggestions. I was hoping to stay inside the Airtable infrastructure as much as possible, but I'm afraid you're right. I'll have a look at those third party tools.

[jakemmarsh]

Hi @JeroenB, I wanted to let you know that as of last week, we've rolled out sticky headers in list views/elements to all users. With this change, the header corresponding to the section currently in view should stay "sticky" at the top of the page. I hope this solves your issue!

[Jeroen_Sarink]

Many thanks! This change made a lot of our interfaces much easier to work with.

[Craig_Toohey]

@jakemmarsh thanks for your response on this thread.  It looks like this isn't the case when using a list view on a Record Review page.  I'm viewing a linked fields as a View, which I really love, but the heading isn't sticky in this view.  

Here's how my page is set up.

As other commenters have suggested, I can just switch to grid view if I need the headers to stick, but it would be great to have sticky headers in this list view too - it's a lot cleaner!

another thing that would be great would be an ability to adjust the size of this list view.  I can't access the horizontal scroll bar without scrolling all the way to the the bottom fo the list.  And using the click on the scroll wheel doesn't seem to allow us to slide over.