HTML DOM TableHeader Object

HTML DOM Web Development Front End Technology

The HTML DOM TableHeader Object represent the <th> element of an HTML document.

Create TableHeader object

Syntax

Following is the syntax −

document.createElement(“TH”);

Properties of TableHeader object

Property	Explanation
cellIndex	It returns the position of a cell in the cell collection of a table row.
colSpan	It returns and alter the value of colspan attribute of a table.
headers	It returns and alter the value of headers attribute of a table.
abbr	It returns and alter the value of abbr attribute of a table.
rowSpan	It returns and alter the value of rowspan attribute of a table

Let us see an example of TableHeader object:

Example

Live Demo

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<style>
   body {
      color: #000;
      background: lightblue;
      height: 100vh;
      text-align: center;
   }
   table {
      margin: 2rem auto;
      width: 400px;
   }
   .btn {
      background: #db133a;
      border: none;
      height: 2rem;
      border-radius: 2px;
      width: 40%;
      display: block;
      color: #fff;
      outline: none;
      cursor: pointer;
      margin: 1rem auto;
   }
</style>
<body>
<h1>DOM TableHeader Object Demo</h1>
<table border="2">
<thead>
<tr class="table-header">
</tr>
<thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>John</td>
<td>English</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Elon</td>
<td>Germany</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<button onclick="get()" class="btn">Create a TableHeader</button>
<script>
   function get() {
      var th1 = document.createElement("TH");
      var th2 = document.createElement("TH");
      th1.innerHTML = "Name";
      th2.innerHTML = "Language";
      document.querySelector('.table-header').appendChild(th1);
      document.querySelector('.table-header').appendChild(th2);
   }
</script>
</body>
</html>