HTMLTableSectionElement
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 HTMLTableSectionElement
interface provides special properties and methods (beyond the HTMLElement
interface it also has available to it by inheritance) for manipulating the layout and presentation of sections, that is headers, footers and bodies (<thead>
, <tfoot>
, and <tbody>
, respectively) in an HTML table.
Instance properties
Inherits properties from its parent, HTMLElement
.
HTMLTableSectionElement.align
Deprecated-
A string containing an enumerated value reflecting the
align
attribute. It indicates the alignment of the element's contents with respect to the surrounding context. The possible values are"left"
,"right"
, and"center"
. HTMLTableSectionElement.rows
Read only-
Returns a live
HTMLCollection
containing the rows in the section. TheHTMLCollection
is live and is automatically updated when rows are added or removed. HTMLTableSectionElement.ch
Deprecated-
A string containing one single character. This character is the one to align all the cell of a column on. It reflects the
char
and default to the decimal points associated with the language, e.g.'.'
for English, or','
for French. This property was optional and was not very well supported. HTMLTableSectionElement.chOff
Deprecated-
A string containing an integer indicating how many characters must be left at the right (for left-to-right scripts; or at the left for right-to-left scripts) of the character defined by
HTMLTableRowElement.ch
. This property was optional and was not very well supported. HTMLTableSectionElement.vAlign
Deprecated-
A string representing an enumerated value indicating how the content of the cell must be vertically aligned. It reflects the
valign
attribute and can have one of the following values:"top"
,"middle"
,"bottom"
, or"baseline"
.
Instance methods
Inherits methods from its parent, HTMLElement
.
HTMLTableSectionElement.deleteRow()
-
Removes the row, corresponding to the
index
given in parameter, in the section. If theindex
value is-1
the last row is removed; if it smaller than-1
or greater than the amount of rows in the collection, aDOMException
with the valueIndexSizeError
is raised. HTMLTableSectionElement.insertRow()
-
Returns an
HTMLTableRowElement
representing a new row of the section. It inserts it in the rows collection immediately before the<tr>
element at the givenindex
position. If theindex
is-1
, the new row is appended to the collection. If theindex
is smaller than-1
or greater than the number of rows in the collection, aDOMException
with the valueIndexSizeError
is raised.
Specifications
Specification |
---|
HTML Standard # htmltablesectionelement |
Browser compatibility
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