Does a have to be inside a

Question

Does a table row () have to be in a table body (), if the table has a table body, or can it exist outside of the table body?

Answer 1

is used to mark body of your

, if your table contains (table header) or (table footer) elements. If your table doesn't contain those elements, you're free to not use .

Correct usage would be:

Item	Cost
Stack Overflow	Free
Something cool	$1.00

HTML4 specification to tables