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Is it valid to use more than one thead or tfoot element in a table?

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Imagine a list of lists similar to this:

var list = [

  { name: 'group1', 

    items: [ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ]

  },

  { name: 'group2', 

    items: [ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ]

  },

  etc...

]

Now forgetting the whole "tables are for data not design" argument, I wanted to display a single table for list and have a seperate <thead> and <tbody> for each entry in list.

Is this technically valid? This works in the browser, but my spider senses are tingling on this one.

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answered 11 Years ago devlin · Accepted Answer

You can have as many <tbody> elements as you want, but no more than one each of <thead> and <tfoot>. Reference:

Content model:

In this order: optionally a caption element, followed
by zero or more colgroup elements, followed optionally by a thead
element, followed by either zero or more tbody elements or one or more
tr elements, followed optionally by a tfoot element, optionally
intermixed with one or more script-supporting elements.