HTML DOM THead align Property

Last Updated : 28 Feb, 2022

The HTML DOM THead align property is used to set or return the horizontal alignment of the content within the <thead> element. It is not supported by HTML 5.

Syntax:

It returns the align property.
```
theadobject.align
```

It sets the align property.

theadObject.align = "left | right | center | justify | char"

Property Values:

left: It sets the text to left-align.
right: It sets the text to right-align.
center: It sets the text to center-align.
justify: It stretches the text of paragraph to set the width of all lines equal.
char: It sets the text-align to a specific character.

Return Value : It returns a string value which represents the alignment of the <thead> element.

Example 1: Below HTML Code illustrates how to returns the THead align property.

HTML

<!DOCTYPE html> 
<html> 
  
<head> 
    <style> 
        table, 
        th, 
        td { 
            border: 1px solid green; 
        } 
    </style> 
</head> 
  
<body> 
    <center> 
    <h1> 
        GeeksforGeeks 
    </h1> 
    <h2>HTML DOM THead align property</h2> 
    <table> 
        <thead id="theadID" align="left"> 
            <tr> 
                <td>Username</td> 
                <td>User_Id</td> 
            </tr> 
        </thead> 
        <tbody> 
            <tr> 
                <td>Shashank</td> 
                <td>@shashankla</td> 
            </tr> 
            <tr> 
                <td>GeeksforGeeks</td> 
                <td>@geeks</td> 
            </tr> 
        </tbody> 
    </table> 
    <button onclick="btnclick()">  
       Click here  
    </button> 
    <p id="paraID"></p> 
    <script> 
        function btnclick() { 
            var thead = document.getElementById("theadID").align; 
            document.getElementById("paraID").innerHTML = thead; 
        } 
    </script> 
</body> 
  
</html>

Output:

Example 2: Below code illustrates how to set the THead to align property.

HTML

<!DOCTYPE html> 
<html> 
  
<head> 
    <style> 
        table, 
        th, 
        td { 
            border: 1px solid green; 
        } 
    </style> 
</head> 
  
<body> 
    <center> 
    <h1> 
        GeeksforGeeks 
    </h1> 
    <h2>HTML DOM THead align property </h2> 
    <table> 
        <thead id="theadID" align="left"> 
            <tr> 
                <td>Username</td> 
                <td>User_Id</td> 
            </tr> 
        </thead> 
        <tbody> 
            <tr> 
                <td>Shashank</td> 
                <td>@shashankla</td> 
            </tr> 
            <tr> 
                <td>GeeksforGeeks</td> 
                <td>@geeks</td> 
            </tr> 
        </tbody> 
    </table> 
    <button onclick="btnclick()">  
      Click here  
    </button> 
    <p id="paraID"></p> 
    <script> 
        function btnclick() { 
            var thead = document.getElementById( 
                "theadID").align = "right"; 
  
            document.getElementById( 
                "paraID").innerHTML = thead; 
        } 
    </script> 
</body> 
  
</html>