HTMLTableCellElement: abbr property

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 abbr property of the HTMLTableCellElement interface indicates an abbreviation associated with the cell. If the cell does not represent a header cell , it is ignored.

It reflects the abbr attribute of the element.

Note: This property doesn't have a visual effect in browsers. It adds information to help assistive technology like screen readers that can use this abbreviation

Value

A string.

Examples

This example adds prefixes with the abbreviation associated with the row header of each first cell.

HTML

html


  
    
      Manufacturer
      Car model
    
  
  
    
      Tesla
      3
    
    
      BYD
      Dolphin
    
    
      VW
      ID.3

Manufacturer	Car model
Tesla	3
BYD	Dolphin
VW	ID.3

table {
  border-collapse: collapse;
}

th,
td,
table {
  border: 1px solid black;
}

button {
  margin: 1em 1em 1em 0;
}

JavaScript

const rows = document.querySelectorAll("thead tr");
const cells = rows[0].cells;

for (const cell of cells) {
  cell.textContent = `${cell.textContent} (${cell.abbr})`;
}

Results

Specifications

Specification
HTML # dom-th-abbr