HTMLTableElement: createCaption() 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.createCaption() method returns the element associated with a given

. If no
element exists on the table, this method creates it, and then returns it.

Note: If no caption exists, createCaption() inserts a new caption directly into the table. The caption does not need to be added separately as would be the case if Document.createElement() had been used to create the new

element.

Syntax

js
createCaption()

Parameters

None.

Return value

HTMLTableCaptionElement

Examples

This example uses JavaScript to add a caption to a table that initially lacks one.

HTML

html

  

    Cell 1.1
    Cell 1.2
    Cell 1.3
  

  

    Cell 2.1
    Cell 2.2
    Cell 2.3

JavaScript

js
let table = document.querySelector("table");
let caption = table.createCaption();
caption.textContent = "This caption was created by JavaScript!";

Result

Specifications

Specification
HTML
# dom-table-createcaption-dev

Browser compatibility