HTMLLegendElement

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.

The HTMLLegendElement is an interface allowing to access properties of the <legend> elements. It inherits properties and methods from the HTMLElement interface.

EventTarget Node Element HTMLElement HTMLLegendElement

Instance properties

Inherits properties from its parent, HTMLElement.

HTMLLegendElement.align

A string representing the alignment relative to the form set.

HTMLLegendElement.form Read only

A HTMLFormElement representing the form that this legend belongs to. If the legend has a fieldset element as its parent, then this attribute returns the same value as the form attribute on the parent fieldset element. Otherwise, it returns null.

Instance methods

No specific method; inherits methods from its parent, HTMLElement.

Specifications

Specification
HTML Standard
# htmllegendelement

Browser compatibility

BCD tables only load in the browser

See also

  • The HTML element implementing this interface: <legend>