HTMLTableElement: createCaption() method - Web APIs | MDN (original) (raw)

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The HTMLTableElement.createCaption() method returns the element associated with a given

**Note:**If no caption exists, createCaption() inserts a new caption directly into the table. The caption does not need to be added separately as would be the case if Document.createElement() had been used to create the new <caption> element.

Syntax

Parameters

None.

Return value

Examples

This example uses JavaScript to add a caption to a table that initially lacks one.

HTML

<table>
  <tr>
    <td>Cell 1.1</td>
    <td>Cell 1.2</td>
    <td>Cell 1.3</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Cell 2.1</td>
    <td>Cell 2.2</td>
    <td>Cell 2.3</td>
  </tr>
</table>

JavaScript

let table = document.querySelector("table");
let caption = table.createCaption();
caption.textContent = "This caption was created by JavaScript!";

Result

Specifications

Browser compatibility