This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.
* Some parts of this feature may have varying levels of support.
The HTMLTableCaptionElement interface provides special properties (beyond the regular HTMLElement interface it also has available to it by inheritance) for manipulating table <caption> elements.
Inherits properties from its parent, HTMLElement.
HTMLTableCaptionElement.align Deprecated
A string which represents an enumerated attribute indicating alignment of the caption with respect to the table.
No specific method; inherits methods from its parent, HTMLElement.
| Specification |
|---|
| HTML> # htmltablecaptionelement> |
| Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Opera | Safari | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | WebView Android | WebView on iOS | |
HTMLTableCaptionElement |
1 | 12 | 1 | ≤12.1 | 3 | 18 | 4 | ≤12.1 | 1 | 1.0 | 4.4 | 1 |
align |
1 | 12 | 1 | ≤12.1 | 3 | 18 | 4 | ≤12.1 | 1 | 1.0 | 4.4 | 1 |
<caption>.
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLTableCaptionElement