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HTMLTableElement: deleteTFoot() method

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The deleteTFoot() method of the HTMLTableElement interface removes the first <tfoot> element child from a given <table>, if any.

Syntax

deleteTFoot()

Parameters

None.

Return value

None (undefined).

Examples

This example uses JavaScript to delete a table's footer.

HTML

html

<table>
  <thead>
    <tr>
      <th>Name</th>
      <th>Score</th>
    </tr>
  </thead>
  <tbody>
    <tr>
      <td>Bob</td>
      <td>541</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>Jim</td>
      <td>225</td>
    </tr>
  </tbody>
  <tfoot>
    <tr>
      <th>Average</th>
      <td>383</td>
    </tr>
  </tfoot>
</table>

JavaScript

const table = document.querySelector("table");
table.deleteTFoot();

Result

Specifications

Specification
HTML # dom-table-deletetfoot-dev

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