The table tag's purpose is to host tabular data. Hence the <thead>, <tfoot>, and <tbody> tags for column headers, footers, and body data respectively. Cite: ht

The table tag's purpose is to host tabular data. Hence the <thead>, <tfoot>, and <tbody> tags for column headers, footers, and body data respectively. Cite: http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/tables.html http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/tables.html