HTMLTableRowElement: sectionRowIndex 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 sectionRowIndex read-only property of the HTMLTableRowElement interface represents the position of a row within the current section (<thead>, <tbody>, or <tfoot>).

Value

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

Examples

This example uses JavaScript to label all the row numbers of the tbody.

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("tbody tr");

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

Result

Specifications

Specification
HTML
# dom-tr-sectionrowindex

Browser compatibility

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

Legend

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Full support
Full support

See also