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

html
<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
HTML
# dom-th-abbr

Browser compatibility

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

Legend

Tip: you can click/tap on a cell for more information.

Full support
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