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Deprecated in HTML5. Do not use.

<table summary="">

In Deprecated, HTML Attributes

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Create An HTML Table Quickly & Easily With Our Code Example

The summary attribute of <table> was designed to support non-visual HTML readers, such as screen readers. It is deprecated in HTML 5.

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