>>>>>This is what I looked at yesterday too. But you can see he is not using table there at all.
>>>>
>>>>The principal is the same : make the body section 'overflow:auto;'. Example using a table here: http://jsfiddle.net/venkateshwar/5KJka/1/
>>>>Just add the footer - it will work
>>>
>>>Do I need to explicitly set the height to some number as in the fiddle? Adding only overflow: auto; seems to have no effect. Looks like I do need to set the value to something, but how would I know the good value to set?
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>>It's just the height of tbody. Use whatever value you want depending on how many rows should be visible at one time.....
>
>I tried to apply this fiddle to our class. I found that float: left and width: 100% for several elements are important otherwise it doesn't work in the fiddle either. However, when applied in our application the appearance became ugly :( I am going to un-do my changes and grab the site.css back from TFS.
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>Looks like I just can not make it work the way I need and I better stop all my css attempts as I spend lots of time with 0 result :(

Looks like it would work if you style the tr (and th) elements appropriately e.g.:

<tr>
            <td style ="width:80%">album 0</td>
            <td style ="width:10%">song0</td>
            <td style ="width:10%">genre0</td>
        </tr>