HTMLTableElement: deleteCaption() method
Baseline
Widely available
This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.
The deleteCaption() method of the HTMLTableElement interface removes the first <caption> element child from a given <table>, if any.
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>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>Cell 1.1</td>
<td>Cell 1.2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Cell 2.1</td>
<td>Cell 2.2</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
JavaScript
js
const table = document.querySelector("table");
table.deleteCaption();
Result
Specifications
| Specification |
|---|
| HTML # dom-table-deletecaption-dev |