Create Table Header in HTML

Use the <thead> tag in HTML to create table header. The HTML <thead> tag is used in adding a header to a table. The thead tag is used in conjunction with the tbody tag and the tfoot tag in determining each part of the table (header, footer, body).

The HTML <thead> tag also supports the following additional attributes −

Attribute
 Value
 Description
align
 right
left
center
justify
char
 Deprecated − Visual alignment.
char
 character
 Deprecated − Specifies which character to align text on. Used when align = "char"
charoff
 pixels or %
 Deprecated − Specifies an alignment offset (either in pixels or percentage value) against the first character as specified with the char attribute. Used when align = "char"
valign
 top
middle
bottom
baseline
 Deprecated − Vertical alignment.

Example

You can try to run the following code to learn how to implement <thead> tag in HTML −

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
   <head>
      <title>HTML thead Tag</title>
   </head>
   <body>
      <table style = "width:100%" border = "1">
         <thead>
            <tr>
               <td colspan = "4">This is the head of the table</td>
            </tr>
         </thead>
         <tfoot>
            <tr>
               <td colspan = "4">This is the foot of the table</td>
            </tr>
         </tfoot>
         <tbody>
            <tr>
               <td>Cell 1</td>
               <td>Cell 2</td>
               <td>Cell 3</td>
               <td>Cell 4</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
            ...more rows here containing four cells...
            </tr>
         </tbody>
     
         <tbody>
            <tr>
               <td>Cell 1</td>
               <td>Cell 2</td>
               <td>Cell 3</td>
               <td>Cell 4</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
            ...more rows here containing four cells...
            </tr>
         </tbody>
      </table>
   </body>
</html>
Updated on: 2020-05-27T22:28:51+05:30

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