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 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>
<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
let table = document.querySelector("table");
table.deleteCaption();
Result
Specifications
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