HTML DOM Legend align Property

Last Updated : 15 Jun, 2023

The Legend align Property in HTML DOM is used to set or return the value of the align attribute of <legend> Element.

Note: This property is no longer supported in HTML5.

Syntax:

It returns a legend align Property.

Legendobject.align;

It sets the Legend to align Property.

Legendobject.align="left|right|top|bottom"

Property values: This property accepts four parameters as mentioned above and described below:

left: It sets the caption to the left of the element. It is a default value.
right: It sets the caption to the right of an element.
top: It sets the caption to the top of the element.
bottom: It sets the caption to the bottom of the element.

Return Value: It returns a string value that represents the <legend> element alignment.

Example 1: This Example returns a Legend align Property.

HTML

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
   
<head>
    <title>DOM Legend align Property</title>
    <style>
        form {
            width: 70%;
        }
        label {
            display: inline-block;
            clear: left;
            width: 90px;
            margin: 5px;
            text-align: left;
        }
        input[type="text"] {
            width: 250px;
            margin: 5px 0px;
        }
        .gfg {
            font-size: 40px;
            color: green;
            font-weight: bold;
        }
    </style>
</head>
 
<body>
    <div class="gfg">GeeksforGeeks</div>
    <h2>DOM Legend align Property</h2>
    <form id="myGeeks">
        <fieldset>
            <!-- Assigning legend id -->
            <legend id="GFG" align="left">STUDENT::</legend>
            <label>Name:</label>
            <input type="text">
            <br>
            <label>Email:</label>
            <input type="text">
            <br>
            <label>Date of birth:</label>
            <input type="text">
            <br>
            <label>Address:</label>
            <input type="text">
            <br>
            <label>Enroll No:</label>
            <input type="text">
        </fieldset>
    </form>
    <br>
    <button onclick="myGeeks()">Submit</button>
    <p id="sudo" style="font-size:25px;"></p>
 
    <script>
        function myGeeks() {
            // return legend align property
            let g =
                document.getElementById("GFG").align;
            document.getElementById(
                "sudo").innerHTML = g;
        }
    </script>
</body>
 
</html>

Output:

Example 2: This Example sets the Legend to align Property.

HTML

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
 
<head>
    <title>DOM Legend align Property</title>
    <style>
        form {
            width: 70%;
        }
        label {
            display: inline-block;
            clear: left;
            width: 90px;
            margin: 5px;
            text-align: left;
        }
        input[type="text"] {
            width: 250px;
            margin: 5px 0px;
        }
        .gfg {
            font-size: 40px;
            color: green;
            font-weight: bold;
        }
    </style>
</head>
 
<body>
    <div class="gfg">GeeksforGeeks</div>
    <h2>DOM Legend align Property</h2>
    <form id="myGeeks">
        <fieldset>
            <!-- Assigning legend id -->
            <legend id="GFG" align="left">STUDENT::</legend>
            <label>Name:</label>
            <input type="text">
            <br>
            <label>Email:</label>
            <input type="text">
            <br>
            <label>Date of birth:</label>
            <input type="text">
            <br>
            <label>Address:</label>
            <input type="text">
            <br>
            <label>Enroll No:</label>
            <input type="text">
        </fieldset>
    </form>
    <br>
    <button onclick="myGeeks()">Submit</button>
    <p id="sudo" style="font-size:25px;"></p>
    <script>
        function myGeeks() {
            // set legend align Property
            let g =
                document.getElementById("GFG").align = "right";
            document.getElementById(
                "sudo").innerHTML =
                "The value of the align attribute was changed to " + g;
        }
    </script>
</body>
 
</html>