Is it necessary to have <tbody> in every table?

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Jitendra Vyas picture Jitendra Vyas · Jun 20, 2010 · Viewed 18.8k times · Source

Is it necessary to have <tbody> in every table? According to Standards.

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Aaron Harun picture Aaron Harun · Jun 20, 2010

Only if you define thead and tfoot. It is mostly used when the table has multiple bodies of content. If the data in the table is easily understood to be the tbody then you can safely omit it.

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