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HTML Tag: thead

Table header. Along with tfoot and tbody, thead can be used to group a series of rows. thead can be used just once within a table element and should appear before a tfoot and tbody element.

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Required Attributes

  • None.

Optional Attributes

  • align can be used to horizontally align the cells within the element. The value can be left, center, right, justify or char.
  • valign can be used to vertically align the cells within the element. The value can be top, middle, bottom or baseline.
  • char can be used to specify a character with which cells will align, such as a decimal point. It is not supported by any major browser.
  • charoff can be used to specify the number of pixels the alignment should be offset from the char character. It is not supported by any major browser.
  • Common attributes

Example


<table>
	<thead>
		<tr>
			<th>Header 1</th>
			<th>Header 2</th>
			<th>Header 3</th>
		</tr>
	</thead>
	<tfoot>
		<tr>
			<td>Footer 1</td>
			<td>Footer 2</td>
			<td>Footer 3</td>
		</tr>
	</tfoot>
	<tbody>
		<tr>
			<td>Cell data 1</td>
			<td>Cell data 2</td>
			<td>Cell data 3</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>Cell data 4</td>
			<td>Cell data 5</td>
			<td>Cell data 6</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>Cell data 7</td>
			<td>Cell data 8</td>
			<td>Cell data 9</td>
		</tr>
	</tbody>
</table>