The following example uses the Table Object Model to create the example table used throughout this article.

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<TABLE ID="oTable" BORDER BGCOLOR="lightslategray">
<TBODY ID="oTBody0"></TBODY>
<TBODY ID="oTBody1"></TBODY>
</TABLE>

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JScript">
// Declare variables and create the header, footer, and caption.
var oTHead = oTable.createTHead();
var oTFoot = oTable.createTFoot();
var oCaption = oTable.createCaption();
var oRow, oCell;
var i, j;

// Declare stock data that would normally be retrieved from a stock Web site.
var heading = new Array;

heading[0] = "Stock symbol";
heading[1] = "High";
heading[2] = "Low";
heading[3] = "Close";

var stock = new Array;

stock["0,0"] = "ABCD";
stock["0,1"] = "88.625";
stock["0,2"] = "85.50";
stock["0,3"] = "85.81";

stock["1,0"] = "EFGH";
stock["1,1"] = "102.75";
stock["1,2"] = "97.50";
stock["1,3"] = "100.063";

stock["2,0"] = "IJKL";
stock["2,1"] = "56.125";
stock["2,2"] = "54.50";
stock["2,3"] = "55.688";

stock["3,0"] = "MNOP";
stock["3,1"] = "71.75";
stock["3,2"] = "69.00";
stock["3,3"] = "69.00";

// Insert a row into the header.
oRow = oTHead.insertRow();
oTHead.bgColor = "lightskyblue";

// Insert cells into the header row.
for (i=0; i<4; i++)
{
  oCell = oRow.insertCell();
  oCell.align = "center";
  oCell.style.fontWeight = "bold";
  oCell.innerText = heading[i];
}

// Insert rows and cells into the first body.
for (i=0; i<2; i++)
{
  oRow = oTBody0.insertRow();
  for (j=0; j<4; j++)
  {
    oCell = oRow.insertCell();
    oCell.innerText = stock[i + "," + j];
  }
}

// Set the background color of the first body.
oTBody0.bgColor = "lemonchiffon";

// Insert rows and cells into the second body.
for (i=2; i<4; i++)
{
  oRow = oTBody1.insertRow();
  for (j=0; j<4; j++)
  {
    oCell = oRow.insertCell();
    oCell.innerText = stock[i + "," + j];
  }
}

// Set the background color of the second body.
oTBody1.bgColor = "goldenrod";

// Insert rows and cells into the footer row.
oRow = oTFoot.insertRow();
oCell = oRow.insertCell();
oCell.innerText = "Quotes are for example only.";
oCell.colSpan = "4";
oCell.bgColor = "lightskyblue";

// Set the innerText of the caption and position it at the bottom of the table.
oCaption.innerText = "Created using Table Object Model."
oCaption.style.fontSize = "10";
oCaption.align = "bottom";
</SCRIPT>
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The tBody elements in the preceding example were defined using HTML, because you cannot use the Table Object Model to create tBody elements. As mentioned previously, if your table contains only one tBody, you do not need to create it because it is implied.

Table Object Model vs. the DOM
The Table Object Model is specific to tables, using methods such as insertRow and insertCell, whereas the DOM is more generic, because it ma