HTML & XHTML Pocket Reference, 4th Edition

Name

tbody — HTML 4.01 | HTML5

Synopsis

<tbody> . . . </tbody>

Defines a row or group of rows as the “body” of the table. It must contain at least one row element (tr). “Row group” elements (tbody, thead, and tfoot) could speed table display and provide a mechanism for scrolling the body of a table independently of its head and foot. Row groups could also be useful for printing long tables for which the head information could be printed on each page. The char and charoff attributes are not well supported.

Start/End Tags

HTML: Optional/Optional; XHTML: Required/Required

Attributes

Core, Internationalization, Events, HTML5 Global Attributes

align="left|right|center|justify|char"

Not in HTML5. Specifies the horizontal alignment of text in a cell or cells. The default value is left. The align attribute as it applies to table cell content was not deprecated in HTML 4.01/XHTML but has been removed from HTML5 in favor of style sheet controls.

char="character"

Not in HTML5. Specifies a character along which the cell contents will be aligned when align is set to char. The default character is a decimal point (language-appropriate). This attribute is generally not supported.

charoff="length"

Not in HTML5. Specifies the offset distance to the first alignment character on each line. This attribute is generally not supported.

valign="top|middle|bottom|baseline"

Not in HTML5. Specifies the vertical alignment of text in the cells of a column.

Example

See table.