HTML tbody element

The <tbody> HTML element encapsulates a set of table rows (<tr> elements), indicating that they comprise the body of a table’s (main) data.

The <tbody> is placed after any <caption>, <colgroup>, and <thead> elements. If <tr> elements are specified as direct children of the <table> (see “tag omission” in the technical summary for a description of when this is valid), then the markup generated by the browser will include a <tbody> element that encapsulates them. As a result, CSS selectors such as table > tr will not select these elements. It’s permitted to use more than one <tbody> per table as long as they are all consecutive. This allows you to divide the rows (<tr> elements) in large tables into sections, each of which may be separately formatted if so desired. If not marked up to be consecutive elements, browsers will correct this author error, ensuring any <thead> and <tfoot> elements are rendered as the first and last elements of the table, respectively.