CSS - caption-side

Description

The caption-side property determines the placement of the element box of a table.s caption.

Possible Values

top − Places the caption's element box above the table box.
bottom − Places the caption's element box below the table box.
left − Places the caption's element box to the left of the table box.
right − Places the caption's element box to the right of the table box.

Applies to

All the HTML positioned element.

DOM Syntax

object.style.captionSide = "left";

Example

Here is the example which shows effect of this property −

Live Demo

<html>
   <head>
      <style type = "text/css">
         caption.top {caption-side:top}
         caption.bottom {caption-side:bottom}
         caption.left {caption-side:left}
         caption.right {caption-side:right}
      </style>
   </head>

   <body>
   
      <table style = "width:400px; border:1px solid black;">
         <caption class = "top">
            This caption will appear at the top
         </caption>
         <tr><td > Cell A</td></tr>
         <tr><td > Cell B</td></tr>
      </table>
      <br />
      
      <table style = "width:400px; border:1px solid black;">
         <caption class = "bottom">
            This caption will appear at the bottom
         </caption>
         <tr><td > Cell A</td></tr>
         <tr><td > Cell B</td></tr>
      </table>
      <br />
      
      <table style = "width:400px; border:1px solid black;">
         <caption class = "left">
            This caption will appear at the left
         </caption>
         <tr><td > Cell A</td></tr>
         <tr><td > Cell B</td></tr>
      </table>
      <br />
      
      <table style = "width:400px; border:1px solid black;">
         <caption class = "right">
            This caption will appear at the right
         </caption>
         <tr><td > Cell A</td></tr>
         <tr><td > Cell B</td></tr>
      </table>
      
   </body>
</html>

This will produce following result −

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