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HTML HTML Tables Headers and Footers

Katherine Liu
Katherine Liu
4,668 Points
Posted by Katherine Liu
Katherine Liu
4,668 Points

Add cells with text to your table body.

Hi, so I can't pass this challenge task. It asks me to add cells with text to my table body.

In the video lesson, I don't think he puts tbody elements in his examples, so I took them out. But it doesn't work either. Here are the possibilities that I tried

1) Submitted without tfoot but with tbody 2) Submitted with tfoot but without tbody 3) Submitted without tfoot but with tbody 4) Submitted without tfoot and without tbody

but none of the options above work. I must be doing something wrong or else I'd be passing. I believe I am making a cell within the body and adding text to it.

This is my code. Note: The opening table tag seems to disappear below. Thanks in advance

    <thead>
      <tr>
        <th>a</th>
        <th>b</th>
      </tr>
    </thead>
    <tbody> 
      <tr>
          <th>text</th>
      </tr>
    </tbody>
  </table>```

1 Answer

Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points
Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points

try using table data tags <td> instead of table header tags. It also asks for cells, so try adding more than one table data tag

<table>
    <thead>
      <tr>
        <th>a</th>
        <th>b</th>
      </tr>
    </thead>
    <tbody> 
      <tr>
          <td>text</td>
          <td>text</td>
      </tr>
    </tbody>
  </table>