This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.
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.
deleteCaption()
None.
None (undefined).
This example uses JavaScript to delete a table's caption.
<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>
let table = document.querySelector("table");
table.deleteCaption();
| Specification |
|---|
| HTML> # dom-table-deletecaption-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 | |
deleteCaption |
1 | 12 | 1 | ≤12.1 | 3 | 18 | 4 | ≤12.1 | 1 | 1.0 | 4.4 | 1 |
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLTableElement/deleteCaption