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HTML HTML Tables HTML Tables

Posted by Gregory Parkes-Skelly
Gregory Parkes-Skelly
2,469 Points

Where do I put the tbody tag?

Objective asking me to add a tbody tag. The video covers thead and tfoot but not tbody.

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

    <table>
      <thead>
        <tbody>
        <tr>
          <th>Fruits</th>
          <th>Veggies</th>

        </tr>
      </tbody>
      </thead>
    </table>


  </body>
</html>

2 Answers

MUZ141096 Martin Mushangwe
MUZ141096 Martin Mushangwe
6,859 Points
MUZ141096 Martin Mushangwe
MUZ141096 Martin Mushangwe
6,859 Points

The table body tag is used to designate the section of a table that contains all of the data cells, i.e. one or more <tr> tags can be contained in the <tbody> </tbody>tags.

If the <thead> tag is used then it comes first, followed by the <tfoot> tag, and finally one or more <tbody> tags.

Jeff Lemay
Jeff Lemay
14,268 Points
Jeff Lemay
Jeff Lemay
14,268 Points

For tables, everything goes in the < table > element.

Inside the < table >, there are 3 main section: header, body, footer.

Inside each of those main sections, you can have rows and cells (and even other whole tables).

<table>
    <thead>
        <!-- table header -->
    </thead>

    <tbody>
        <!-- table body-->
    </tbody>

    <tfooot>
        <!-- table footer-->
    </tfoot>
</table>