HTMLTableElement: deleteCaption() method

{{APIRef("HTML DOM")}}

The HTMLTableElement.deleteCaption() method removes the {{HtmlElement("caption")}} element from a given {{HtmlElement("table")}}. If there is no <caption> element associated with the table, this method does nothing.

Syntax

deleteCaption()

Parameters

None.

Return value

None ({{jsxref("undefined")}}).

Examples

This example uses JavaScript to delete a table's caption.

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

let table = document.querySelector("table");
table.deleteCaption();

Result

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Specifications

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Browser compatibility

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