HTMLTableCellElement: headers 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 headers property of the HTMLTableCellElement interface contains a list of IDs of <th> elements that are headers for this specific cell.

Value

A string containing space-separated IDs.

Examples

This example lists the ID of the last clicked cell of the table:

HTML

html
<table>
  <tr>
    <th rowspan="2" id="h">Homework (ID = h)</th>
    <th colspan="3" id="e">Exams (ID = e)</th>
    <th colspan="3" id="p">Projects (ID = p)</th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <th id="e1" headers="e">1 (ID = e1)</th>
    <th id="e2" headers="e">2 (ID = e2)</th>
    <th id="ef" headers="e">Final (ID = ef)</th>
    <th id="p1" headers="p">1 (ID = p1)</th>
    <th id="p2" headers="p">2 (ID = p2)</th>
    <th id="pf" headers="p">Final (ID = pf)</th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td headers="h">15%</td>
    <td headers="e e1">15%</td>
    <td headers="e e2">15%</td>
    <td headers="e ef">20%</td>
    <td headers="p p1">10%</td>
    <td headers="p p2">10%</td>
    <td headers="p pf">15%</td>
  </tr>
</table>
IDs of headers of the last clicked cell: <output>none</output>.

JavaScript

js
const table = document.querySelector("table");
const output = document.querySelector("output");

table.addEventListener("click", (ev) => {
  output.textContent = ev.target.headers ? ev.target.headers : "none";
});

Result

Specifications

Specification
HTML
# dom-tdth-headers

Browser compatibility

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Chrome
Edge
Firefox
Opera
Safari
Chrome Android
Firefox for Android
Opera Android
Safari on iOS
Samsung Internet
WebView Android
WebView on iOS
headers

Legend

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Full support
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