HTML5 <tbody> Tag

Example

An HTML table with a thead, tfoot, and a tbody element:

<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Month</th>
<th>Savings</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tfoot>
<tr>
<td>Sum</td>
<td>$180</td>
</tr>
</tfoot>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>January</td>
<td>$100</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>February</td>
<td>$80</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>

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Definition and Usage

The <tbody> tag is used to group the body content in an HTML table.

The tbody element should be used in conjunction with the thead and tfoot elements.

The thead element is used to group the header content in an HTML table and the tfoot element is used to group the footer content in an HTML table.

Note: <tfoot> must appear before <tbody> within a table, so that a browser can render the foot before receiving all the rows of data.

Notice that these elements will not affect the layout of the table by default. However, you can use CSS to let these elements affect the table's layout.

Differences Between HTML 4.01 and HTML5

None of the HTML 4.01 attributes are supported in HTML5.

Tips and Notes

Note: The <tbody> must have a <tr> tag inside!

Note: If you use one of the thead, tfoot and tbody elements, you should use all of them.

Attributes

Attribute	Value	Description
align	right left center justify char	Not supported in HTML5
char	character	Not supported in HTML5
charoff	number	Not supported in HTML5
valign	top middle bottom baseline	Not supported in HTML5

Standard Attributes

The <tbody> tag also supports the Standard Attributes in HTML5.

Event Attributes

The <tbody> tag also supports the Event Attributes in HTML5.