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HTMLTableElement: deleteCaption() method

The HTMLTableElement.deleteCaption() method removes the <caption> element from a given <table>. If there is no <caption> element associated with the table, this method does nothing.

Syntax

js

deleteCaption()

Parameters

None.

Return value

None (undefined).

Examples

This example uses JavaScript to delete a table's caption.

HTML

html

<table>
  <caption>
    This caption will be deleted!
  </caption>
  <tr>
    <td>Cell 1.1</td>
    <td>Cell 1.2</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Cell 2.1</td>
    <td>Cell 2.2</td>
  </tr>
</table>

JavaScript

js

let table = document.querySelector("table");
table.deleteCaption();

Result

Specifications

Specification
HTML Standard
# dom-table-deletecaption-dev

Browser compatibility

Desktop Mobile
Chrome Edge Firefox Internet Explorer Opera Safari WebView Android Chrome Android Firefox for Android Opera Android Safari on IOS Samsung Internet
deleteCaption 1 12 1 5.5 ≤12.1 3 4.4 18 4 ≤12.1 1 1.0

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