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Tim Holley
8,464 PointsWhy is it that the tfoot should go in between the thead and tbody?
The video never explains why it is that the tfoot wouldn't go at the bottom?
5 Answers
Tawny Bartlett
24,674 PointsI think it's an unusual element in that sense. I believe it's so that the browser can render the table header and footer before it renders the table's body, in case there's a huge amount of data in there. It also makes sense I think in terms of when you're actually writing the code, it keeps the clean information together before you get lost in too many rows!
Sreng Hong
15,083 PointsThis was done to allow the header and footer of a table to load first, before loading in a variable amount of body data, which would otherwise possibly block the loading of the table footer.
Lars Reimann
11,816 PointsThis was changed recently, now tfoot has to come after the tbody (source).
marcus shipman
8,686 PointsOk, Hong your answer makes since because I put the footer at the bottom between the closing table and the closing body and still got the same result.
Tim Holley
8,464 PointsMakes sense,
Thanks for your quick replies.
rajbee
6,657 Pointsrajbee
6,657 PointsSame point - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5574057/why-do-internal-table-sections-have-to-go-thead-tfoot-tbody-to-validate