HTML | DOM Table caption Property

Last Updated : 30 Mar, 2022

The Table caption property returns the <caption> element of a table which is used to define the caption for a table. Only one caption can be assigned to a table and the caption entered inside the <caption> element is center aligned by default.

Syntax

tableObject.caption

Return Value: It returns a string value that defines a text present inside the <caption> element otherwise it returns a null value if caption element is not present.

Below program illustrates the Table caption property :
Example: Alerting the text inside a caption element.

<!DOCTYPE html> 
<html> 
  
<head> 
    <title>Table caption Property in HTML 
  </title> 
    <style> 
        table, 
        td { 
            border: 1px solid green; 
        } 
          
        h1 { 
            color: green; 
        } 
          
        h2 { 
            font-family: Impact; 
        } 
          
        body { 
            text-align: center; 
        } 
    </style> 
</head> 
  
<body> 
  
    <h1>GeeksforGeeks</h1> 
    <h2>Table caption Property</h2> 
  
    <p>To return the caption element 
      for the table, double-click the 
      "Return Caption" button.</p> 
  
    <table id="Courses" align="center"> 
        <caption>Courses by Geeksforgeeks 
      </caption> 
        <thead> 
            <tr> 
                <th>Subject</th> 
                <th>Courses</th> 
            </tr> 
        </thead> 
        <tr> 
            <td>Java</td> 
            <td>Fork Java</td> 
        </tr> 
        <tr> 
            <td>Python</td> 
            <td>Fork Python</td> 
        </tr> 
        <tr> 
            <td>Placements</td> 
            <td>Sudo Placement</td> 
        </tr> 
    </table> 
    <br> 
  
    <button ondblclick="Table_Caption()"> 
      Return Caption 
  </button> 
  
    <script> 
        function Table_Caption() { 
            
            // Return caption using alert. 
            alert(document.getElementById( 
              "Courses").caption.innerHTML); 
        } 
    </script> 
  
</body> 
  
</html> 