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tag

HTML

elements is used to define header of an HTML table. The tag is used along with and tags which defines table header, table body, and table footer in an HTML table.

The

tag must be child of

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element, and it must be used before any , , or elements.

The tag should contain at least one row element inside it.

Syntax

    <thead>
  		<tr>
  		</tr>
  	</thead>

Following are some specifications about the HTML tag

Display	Inline
Start tag/End tag	Start and End tag
Usage	Table header

Example

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
	<title>HTML thead Tag</title>
	<style>
	table{
	border-collapse: collapse;
	margin: 15px;}
	thead{
	background-color:#005cb9;}
              tbody{
           	 background-color: #d4caca;}
              th,td{
               padding: 12px;}
      </style>
</head>
<body>
  <h2>Example of thead tag</h2>
  <table border="1">
  <caption>Population of India</caption>
  	<thead>
  	         <tr>
  		<th>Year</th>
  		<th>Population</th>
  	         </tr>
  	</thead>
       <tbody>
        <tr>
             <td>2015</td>
             <td>1,309,053,980</td>
          </tr>
        <tr> 
            <td>2016</td>
              <td>1,324,171,354</td>
          </tr>
           <tr>
               <td>2017</td>
                <td>1,339,180,127</td>
            </tr>
             <tr>
               <td>2018</td>
               <td>1,354,051,854</td>
             </tr>
     </tbody>
  </table>
</body>
</html>	

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Output:

Attribute:

Tag-specific attributes:

element. (Not Supported in HTML5) element to the character. (Not Supported in HTML5) element. (Not Supported in HTML5)

Attribute	Value	Description
align	right left center justify char	It determines the alignment of the content inside the
char	Character	It specifies the alignment of the content inside the
charoff	Number	It specifies the number of characters the content that will be aligned from the character specified by the char attribute. (Not Supported in HTML5)
valign	top middle bottom baseline	It determines the vertical alignment of the content inside the