HTML Element: <table>
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The HTML <table> element indicates a table.
It typically includes one or more <tr>
elements and, within them, <td> and/or <th>
elements. More complicated table layouts can also include <caption>, <col>, <colgroup>, <tbody>, <tfoot> and <thead>
elements.
The attributes
it can take are HTML
global attributes and HTML event attributes.
It used to support the align, bgcolor,
border, cellpadding, cellspacing,
frame, rules, summary
and width attributes, but these
are no longer supported by HTML 5. Original draft versions of HTML 5 also
included a sortable attribute,
but this appears to have been dropped in later specifications and not to have
been implemented so far by major browsers.
To create or access such an element in JavaScript
see here. The
corresponding HTML DOM
object supports standard
DOM properties and methods. It also supports the following additional
properties and methods:
Additional properties:
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Property
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Description
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More
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caption
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Returns the <caption>
element of the table
|
Here
|
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rows
|
Returns a collection of the <tr> elements of
the table
|
Here
|
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tBodies
|
Returns
a collection of <tbody>
elements of the table
|
Here
|
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tFoot
|
Returns the <tfoot>
element of the table
|
Here
|
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tHead
|
Returns the <thead>
element of the table
|
Here
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Additional
methods:
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Method
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Description
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More
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createCaption()
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Creates empty <caption>
element and adds to table
|
Here
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createTFoot()
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Creates empty <tfoot>
element and adds to table
|
Here
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createTHead()
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Creates empty <thead>
element and adds to table
|
Here
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deleteCaption()
|
Removes first <caption>
element from table
|
Here
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deleteRow()
|
Removes a <tr> element
from table
|
Here
|
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deleteTFoot()
|
Removes first <tfoot>
element from table
|
Here
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deleteTHead()
|
Removes <thead>
element from table
|
Here
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insertRow()
|
Creates
empty <tr>
element and adds to table
|
Here
|
The default style
applicable to this element is shown here.
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