HTML DOM Table Header align Property

Last Updated : 23 Aug, 2022

The HTML DOM TableHeader align property is used to set or return the horizontal alignment of the content inside the table header. It is not supported by HTML 5.

Syntax:

It returns the align property.

TableHeaderobject.align

It sets the align property.

TableHeaderObject.align = "left|right|center|justify|char"

Property values:

left: It sets the text left-aligned.
right: It sets the text right-aligned.
center: It sets the text center-aligned.
justify: It stretches the text of the paragraph to set the width of all lines equal.
char: It sets the text-align to a specific character.

Return Value : It returns a string value which represents the horizontal alignment of the <th> element.

Example 1: Below code illustrates how to return the TableHeader align property.

HTML

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <!-- Style to set border -->
    <style>
        table,
        th,
        td {
            border: 1px solid black;
        }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
    <center>
        <h1>GeeksforGeeks</h1>
        <h2>
            DOM TableHeader align Property
        </h2>
        <table>
            <tr>
                <th id="table" style="padding:15px" 
                    align="left">
                    Username
                </th>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td>Manas Chhabra</td>
            </tr>
        </table>
        <br>
        <button onclick="clickbtn()"> 
            Click Here!
        </button>
        <p id="paraID" 
            style="font-size:25px;color:green"></p>


        <!-- Script to return the Table Header align Property -->
        <script>
            function clickbtn() {
                var tab = document.getElementById(
                    "table").align;

                document.getElementById("paraID")
                    .innerHTML = tab;
            }
        </script>
    </center>
</body>
</html>

Output:

Example 2: Below code illustrates how to set the TableHeader align property.

HTML

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <!-- Style to set border -->
    <style>
        table,
        th,
        td {
            border: 1px solid black;
        }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
    <center>
        <h1>GeeksforGeeks</h1>
        <h2>
            DOM TableHeader align Property
        </h2>
        <table>
            <tr>
                <th id="table" 
                    style="padding:15px" align="left">
                    Username
                </th>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td>Manas Chhabra</td>
            </tr>
        </table>
        <br>
        <button onclick="click1()"> 
            Click Here!
        </button>
        <p id="paraID" style=
            "font-size:25px;color:green">
        </p>

    </center>

    <!-- script to set the Table Header align Property -->
    <script>
        function click1() {
            var tab = document.getElementById(
                    "table").align = "right";

            document.getElementById("sudo")
                .innerHTML = tab;
        }
    </script>
</body>
</html>