Web Design in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition

Name

tbody

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 supported by current commercial browsers.

Attributes

Core(id, class, style, title), Internationalization, Events

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

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 has not been deprecated and appears in the Tables Module of the XHTML 1.1 Recommendation.

char=" character "

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 by current browsers.

charoff=" length "

Specifies the offset distance to the first alignment character on each line. If a line doesn’t use an alignment character, it should be horizontally shifted to end at the alignment position. This attribute is generally not supported by current browsers.

valign="top|middle|bottom|baseline"

Specifies the vertical alignment of text in the cells of a column. The valign attribute as it applies ...