HTMLTableCellElement: abbr property
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 abbr property of the HTMLTableCellElement interface indicates an abbreviation associated with the cell. If the cell does not represent a header cell <th>, it is ignored.
It reflects the abbr attribute of the <th> element.
Note: This property doesn't have a visual effect in browsers. It adds information to help assistive technology like screen readers that can use this abbreviation
Value
A string.
Examples
This example adds prefixes with the abbreviation associated with the row header of each first cell.
HTML
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<table> <thead> <tr> <th abbr="Maker">Manufacturer</th> <th abbr="Model">Car model</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td>Tesla</td> <td>3</td> </tr> <tr> <td>BYD</td> <td>Dolphin</td> </tr> <tr> <td>VW</td> <td>ID.3</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> JavaScript
js
const rows = document.querySelectorAll("thead tr"); const cells = rows[0].cells; for (const cell of cells) { cell.textContent = `${cell.textContent} (${cell.abbr})`; } Results
Specifications
| Specification |
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| HTML # dom-th-abbr |