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HTML HTML Tables HTML Tables

Posted by Bill Alexy
Bill Alexy
2,473 Points

I can't find any where in the video where the term table body is used. I have tried different combinations... fail.

What is the "table body" that is being referred to in this question?

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <title>HTML Tables Challenge</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <h1>HTML Tables Challenge</h1>

    <!-- Write your code below -->
    <table>
      <thead>
        <th>blue</th>
        <th>green</th>
      </thead>
      <tfoot>
      </tfoot>
   </table>


  </body>
</html>
Jonathon Weisse
Jonathon Weisse
14,493 Points
Jonathon Weisse
Jonathon Weisse
14,493 Points

I don't think Nick does mention table bodies in those videos, but it is mentioned in the teacher notes below the video. Table body tags look like:

<tbody></tbody>

As you may have guessed they are used to house the body portion of the table. For more information check out another of Nick's courses called "HTML Tables". I know he talks about Table Body in those videos.

2 Answers

William Li
PLUS
William Li
Courses Plus Student 26,868 Points
William Li
William Li
Courses Plus Student 26,868 Points

I believe you're right, I didn't see any mention of tbody from the video https://teamtreehouse.com/library/html/tables/headers-and-footers either; but the Teacher's Note tab underneaths the video provides some reference for this tag.

I know that, a while ago, Treehouse has edited and rearranged the order of the lectures videos on some legacy courses; perhaps during the process, they made a mistake of cutting out a portion of the video that contains the required knowledge for doing the Code Challenge. Sorry about that. Here's how you'd do it.

  <body>
    <h1>HTML Tables Challenge</h1>

    <!-- Write your code below -->
    <table>
      <thead>
        <th>blue</th>
        <th>green</th>
      </thead>

      <!-- line below is tbody tag -->
      <tbody></tbody>

      <tfoot>
      </tfoot>
   </table>


  </body>
alex mattingley
alex mattingley
7,508 Points
alex mattingley
alex mattingley
7,508 Points

Quick pro tip, if you are ever confused to exactly what an element does, usually a quick google search will help you resolve the issue. For example a search for "table body html" would reveal several links revealing more information about tables which is what this quiz is focusing on. The first link on google for me is: http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_tbody.asp ...which of course is all about tables :)