This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.
The HTMLTableElement.caption property represents the table caption. If no caption element is associated with the table, this property is null.
A string.
if (table.caption) {
// Do something with the caption
}
| Specification |
|---|
| HTML> # dom-table-caption-dev> |
| Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Opera | Safari | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | WebView Android | WebView on iOS | |
caption |
1 | 12 | 1 | ≤12.1 | 3 | 18 | 4 | ≤12.1 | 1 | 1.0 | 4.4 | 1 |
HTMLTableElement.
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLTableElement/caption