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

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 createTHead() method ofHTMLTableElement objects returns the element associated with a given

. If no header exists in the table, this method creates it, and then returns it.

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

Syntax

Parameters

None.

Return value

HTMLTableSectionElement

Examples

js

let myHead = myTable.createTHead();
// Now this should be true: myHead === myTable.tHead

Specifications

Specification
HTML # dom-table-createthead-dev

Browser compatibility