The <tbody> tag

Definition and Usage

Defines a table body.

The thead, tfoot and tbody elements enables you to group rows in a table. When you create a table, you might want to have a header row, some rows with data, and a row with totals at bottom. This division enables browsers to support scrolling of table bodies independently of the table header and footer. When long tables are printed, the table header and footer information may be repeated on each page that contains table data.

Tips and Notes

Note: If you use the thead, tfoot and tbody elements, you must use every element, but you can leave them blank They should appear in this order: <thead>, <tfoot> and <tbody>, so that browsers can render the foot before receiving all the data. You must use these tags within the table element.

Note: The <thead>,<tbody> and <tfoot> elements are seldom used, because of bad browser support. Expect this to change in future versions of XHTML. If you have Internet Explorer 5.0 or newer, you can view a working example in our XML tutorial.

Examples

This code:

Produces this output:

<table border = "1">
<thead>
<tr>
<td>This text is in the THEAD</td>
</tr>
</thead>
<tfoot>
<tr>
<td>This text is in the TFOOT</td>
</tr>
</tfoot>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td> This text is in the TBODY</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>

This text is in the THEAD
This text is in the TFOOT
This text is in the TBODY

Optional Attributes

Attributes:	Values:	Description:
align	right left center justify char	Alignment of the text in the cells
char	character	Sets which character to be used to center the text around, when you set align="char"
charoff	pixels %	Specifies an offset that must be used when you have set align="char". This offset is added to the position where the character to center around is
valign	top middle bottom baseline	Vertical alignment of the text in the cells

Standard Attributes

id, class, title, style, dir, lang

For a full description, go to Standard Attributes.

Event Attributes

onclick, ondblclick, onmousedown, onmouseup, onmouseover, onmousemove, onmouseout, onkeypress, onkeydown, onkeyup

For a full description, go to Event Attributes.

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