TableHeader cellIndex Property

HTML DOM TableHeader Object

Definition and Usage

cellIndex Property returns the index of the cell in the table row cells collection position.

See also:

HTML Reference Manual:HTML <th> Tag

Instance

Example 1

Click on different cells to prompt their index positions:

alert("Cell index is: " + x.cellIndex);

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Example 2

Return the index position of each cell in the table row:

var x = document.getElementsByTagName("th");
var txt = "";
var i;
for (i = 0; i < x.length; i++) {
  txt = txt + "The index of Cell "+(i+1)+" is: "+x[i].cellIndex+"<br>";
}

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Syntax

Returns the cellIndex property:

tableheaderObject.cellIndex

Technical Details

Return Value: Number, representing the position of the cell in the cells collection of the table row.

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HTML DOM TableHeader Object