HTML | DOM Table tBodies Collection

Last Updated : 20 Feb, 2019

The Table tBodies collection is used for returning the collection of all the <tbody> elements in a table. The sequence of the <body> elements are sorted in the same way as their position in the source code.

Syntax

tableObject.tBodies

Properties

length : It is used to return the number of <tbody> elements in the collection.

Methods

[index] : It is used for returning the <tbody> element from the collection with a specified index.
item(index) : It is also used for returning the <tbody> element from the collection with a specified index.
namedItem(id) : It is also used for returning the <tbody> element from the collection with a specified id.

Below program illustrates the Table rows collection :
Example: Finding out the number of <tbody> elements in a table .

<!DOCTYPE html> 
<html> 
  
<head> 
    <title>Table tBodies Collection in HTML 
  </title> 
    <style> 
        table, 
        td { 
            border: 1px solid green; 
        } 
          
        h1 { 
            color: green; 
        } 
          
        h2 { 
            font-family: Impact; 
        } 
          
        body { 
            text-align: center; 
        } 
    </style> 
</head> 
  
<body> 
  
    <h1>GeeksforGeeks</h1> 
    <h2>Table tBodies Collection</h2> 
  
    <p>To return the number of <tbody>  
      elements in the table,  
      double-click the "Return body" button.</p> 
  
    <table id="Courses" align="center"> 
        <caption>Courses by Geeksforgeeks</caption> 
        <tbody> 
            <tr> 
                <td>Java</td> 
                <td>Fork Java</td> 
            </tr> 
        </tbody> 
        <tbody> 
            <tr> 
                <td>Python</td> 
                <td>Fork Python</td> 
            </tr> 
        </tbody> 
        <tbody> 
            <tr> 
                <td>Placements</td> 
                <td>Sudo Placement</td> 
            </tr> 
        </tbody> 
    </table> 
    <br> 
  
    <button ondblclick="tr()"> 
      Return tbody 
  </button> 
  
    <p id="test"></p> 
  
    <script> 
        function tr() { 
            
            // Returning tBodies element length. 
            var r = 
            document.getElementById("Courses").tBodies.length; 
            
            
            document.getElementById("test").innerHTML = 
              r + " tbody elements are present in the table."; 
        } 
    </script> 
  
</body> 
  
</html> 