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 screenreaders 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>

table {
  border-collapse: collapse;
}

th,
td,
table {
  border: 1px solid black;
}

button {
  margin: 1em 1em 1em 0;
}

JavaScript

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 Standard # dom-th-abbr

Browser compatibility

BCD tables only load in the browser