Horizontal scroll on overflow of table

Question

I have a basic table in a container. The table will have about 25 columns. I am trying to add a horizontal scroll bar on overflow of the table and am having a really tough time.

Answer 1

Unless I grossly misunderstood your question, move overflow-x:scroll from .search-table to .search-table-outter.

http://jsfiddle.net/ZXnqM/4/

.search-table-outter {border:2px solid red; overflow-x:scroll;}
.search-table{table-layout: fixed; margin:40px auto 0px auto;   }

As far as I know you can't give scrollbars to tables themselves.