headers Attribute

Where to use the headers Attribute

• As Type IDREFS:
  headers is declared on the elements: th, td

Description

The headers attribute specifies a space-separated list of the id attributes of those table cells which act as headers for the current cell.

This information may be used by assistive technologies to aid the user in interpretation of the table. For example, screen readers may speak the names of the headers for each cell prior to the cell's content.

For more information, see *HTML 4.01 - Associating header information with data cells.

See also the scope, axis and abbr attributes.

Any given table will usually use either a headers or a scope technique for assigning headings to cells, but not both.