HTMLTableRowElement: rowIndex property

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.

The rowIndex read-only property of the HTMLTableRowElement interface represents the position of a row within the whole <table>.

Even when the <thead>, <tbody>, and <tfoot> elements are out of order in the HTML, browsers render the table in the right order. Therefore the rows count from <thead> to <tbody>, from <tbody> to <tfoot>.

Value

The index of the row, or -1 if the row is not part of a table.

Examples

This example uses JavaScript to label all the row numbers in a table.

HTML

html
<table>
  <thead>
    <tr>
      <th>Item</th>
      <th>Price</th>
    </tr>
  </thead>
  <tbody>
    <tr>
      <td>Bananas</td>
      <td>$2</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>Oranges</td>
      <td>$8</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>Top Sirloin</td>
      <td>$20</td>
    </tr>
  </tbody>
  <tfoot>
    <tr>
      <td>Total</td>
      <td>$30</td>
    </tr>
  </tfoot>
</table>

JavaScript

js
const rows = document.querySelectorAll("tr");

rows.forEach((row) => {
  const z = document.createElement("td");
  z.textContent = `(row #${row.rowIndex})`;
  row.appendChild(z);
});

Result

Specifications

Specification
HTML
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Browser compatibility

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Chrome
Edge
Firefox
Opera
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Chrome Android
Firefox for Android
Opera Android
Safari on iOS
Samsung Internet
WebView Android
WebView on iOS
rowIndex

Legend

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Full support
Full support

See also