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Asked: 2026-05-25T11:16:48+00:00

Can a table have more than one table header? I mean is it legal

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Can a table have more than one table header? I mean is it legal as per w3c standards either in html(4/5) or xhtml.

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  1. Editorial Team

    I ran a test as suggested by Pekka at validator.w3.org and it passed it all 3 HTML4 HTML5 XHTML 1.0.

    The table can have more than 1 TH and TBODY

    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<!-- <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> -->
<!-- <!DOCTYPE html> -->

<html >
    <head><title>hi</title></head>
    <body>
        <table>
            <tr>
                <th></th>
                <th>1 </th>
                <th>500 </th>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <th></th>
                <th>1 </th>
                <th>500 </th>
            </tr>
        </table>
    </body>
</html>
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