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>