Methods for CAPTION?

[VK]

Is <caption> not an official part of the table structure?

Usually Microsoft's methods/properties is a real junkyard, where you can
find ANY imaginable and unimaginable stuff. Still I couldn't find any for
<caption>, so it's out of TOM, I guess.

And how would you treat <caption> by DOM?

[Andrew Thompson]

Re: Methods for CAPTION?

On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 14:33:00 +0100, VK wrote:
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> Is <caption> not an official part of the table structure?[/color]

The only source worth asking..
<http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/index/elements.html>

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[VK]

Re: Methods for CAPTION?

So, deprecated...
Shame though...

[Joakim Braun]

Re: Methods for CAPTION?

"VK" <schools_ring@y ahoo.com> skrev i meddelandet
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> So, deprecated...
> Shame though...[/color]

No, the align attribute of the caption is deprecated.

Did you try getElementsByTa gName("caption" ) on a table DOM object?

Joakim Braun

[Michael Winter]

Re: Methods for CAPTION?

On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 14:33:00 +0100, VK <schools_ring@y ahoo.com> wrote:
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> Is <caption> not an official part of the table structure?[/color]

Yes, of course.
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> Usually Microsoft's methods/properties is a real junkyard, where you can
> find ANY imaginable and unimaginable stuff. Still I couldn't find any
> for <caption>, so it's out of TOM, I guess.[/color]

You weren't looking very hard, were you. :P

A HTMLTableElemen t object has a caption property which returns the
HTMLTableCaptio nElement object associated with that table, or null if one
doesn't exist. Though Microsoft don't describe it that way, the caption
property was (reportedly) implemented from IE 4 onwards.

The HTMLTableCaptio nElement object doesn't officially (that is, according
to the W3C) have any properties of its own[1] in a Strict document (only
align, which is deprecated), so the most you'll probably be doing is
accessing the text nodes it contains.
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> And how would you treat <caption> by DOM?[/color]

Hopefully I've covered that.

Mike


[1] It does, of course, have various inherited properties, including the
style object.

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