feat(Table): add dynamic sticky footer support

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What

Adds dynamic sticky footer support to the Table component.

Changes

• Added isStickyFooterBase for sticky footer positioning.
• Added isStickyFooterStuck for dynamic stuck styling.
• Preserved existing isStickyFooter behavior.
• Added tests for both new props.
• Added dynamic sticky footer documentation and example.

Closes #12654

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Added options for controlling sticky table footer positioning and styling independently.
  • Added an example showing a footer that updates its sticky styling as the table is scrolled.

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Walkthrough

The table accepts separate props for sticky-footer positioning and stuck styling. A new example derives the stuck state from scroll-container dimensions and passes it to the table.

Changes

Sticky footer

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Footer props and modifier classes packages/react-table/src/components/Table/Table.tsx, packages/react-table/src/components/Table/__tests__/Table.test.tsx	TableProps adds isStickyFooterBase and isStickyFooterStuck. TableBase applies the corresponding classes when each prop is true. Tests cover true, false, and undefined values.
Scroll-based sticky footer example packages/react-table/src/components/Table/examples/TableStickyFooterDynamic.tsx, packages/react-table/src/components/Table/examples/Table.md	The example derives the stuck state from scroll-container dimensions and passes it to the table. The documentation describes the separate props and notes that isStickyFooter enables both behaviors.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ScrollContainer
  participant useIsStuckFromScrollParent
  participant TableStickyFooterDynamic
  participant TableBase
  ScrollContainer->>useIsStuckFromScrollParent: emits scroll event
  useIsStuckFromScrollParent->>ScrollContainer: reads scroll position and dimensions
  useIsStuckFromScrollParent->>TableStickyFooterDynamic: updates stuck state
  TableStickyFooterDynamic->>TableBase: passes sticky-footer props
  TableBase->>TableBase: applies footer modifier classes

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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 04660

The table adds separate controls for sticky-footer positioning and stuck styling while retaining the existing isStickyFooter behavior. No material merge-blocking risk remains.

Architecture Summary

Architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 04660

The change affects 1 system.

Changed systems: packages/react-table

Architecture concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Review details

Systems and components

• observed — packages/react-table (ui) was modified; 4 changed files map to changed impact.

Before / after behavior

• observed — Modified behavior in packages/react-table/src/components/Table/Table.tsx: TableProps adds optional boolean props for footer base positioning and stuck styling.
• observed — Modified behavior in packages/react-table/src/components/Table/Table.tsx: TableBase destructures the new footer props with false defaults.
• observed — Modified behavior in packages/react-table/src/components/Table/Table.tsx: The table’s class list now applies the footer base and stuck style modifiers when their corresponding props are true.
• observed — Modified behavior in packages/react-table/src/components/Table/tests/Table.test.tsx: Added tests asserting stickyFooterBase is applied when enabled and omitted when false or undefined.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: adding dynamic sticky footer support to the Table component.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The PR meets issue #12654. TableProps exposes isStickyFooterBase and isStickyFooterStuck. TableBase applies stickyFooterBase and stickyFooterStuck independently. The existing `isStickyFoot…
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The changes stay within issue #12654. The source changes add the requested API, tests verify the modifiers, and the documentation and example explain and demonstrate dynamic sticky-footer behavior. No…
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 3…

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@packages/react-table/src/components/Table/examples/TableStickyFooterDynamic.tsx:
- Around line 17-18: Update the scroll synchronization effect in the
TableStickyFooterDynamic example to recalculate stuck state when the scroll
element’s dimensions change: observe the element with ResizeObserver and
disconnect the observer during cleanup, while preserving the existing scroll
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• packages/react-table/src/components/Table/Table.tsx
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• packages/react-table/src/components/Table/examples/Table.md
• packages/react-table/src/components/Table/examples/TableStickyFooterDynamic.tsx

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[rebeccaalpert]

Looks great to me! :)

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Your changes have been released in:

• @patternfly/react-docs@7.7.0-prerelease.3
• @patternfly/react-table@6.7.0-prerelease.3

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