SUMMARY Attribute | summary Property

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Sets or retrieves a description and/or structure of the object.

Syntax

HTML	<TABLE SUMMARY = sSummary... >
Scripting	TABLE.summary(v) [ = sSummary ]

Possible Values

sSummary

String that specifies or receives a description and/or structure of the object.

The property is read/write. The property has no default value.

Expressions can be used in place of the preceding value(s), as of Microsoft® Internet Explorer 5. For more information, see About Dynamic Properties.

Remarks

This property can be used for rendering to non-visual media such as speech or Braille.

There is no functionality implemented for this property unless defined by the author.

Example

The following example shows how to specify a summary property for a table.

<table summary="My Favorite European Cities with the Top City First">
<tr><th>My Favorite Cities</th></tr>
<tr><td>Paris, France</td></tr>
<tr><td>London, England</td></tr>
<tr><td>Rome, Italy</td></tr>
</table>

Standards Information

This property is defined in HTML 4.0  and is defined in World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Document Object Model (DOM) Level 1 .

Applies To

	TABLE