diff --git a/visidata/loaders/html.py b/visidata/loaders/html.py
index 4293547ec..b1523e0b9 100644
--- a/visidata/loaders/html.py
+++ b/visidata/loaders/html.py
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ class HtmlTablesSheet(IndexSheet):
         Column('aria_label', getter=lambda col,row: row.html.attrib.get('aria-label')),
         Column('caption', getter=lambda col,row: row.html.xpath('normalize-space(./caption)') if row.html.xpath('./caption') else None, cache=True),
         Column('summary', getter=lambda col,row: row.html.attrib.get('summary')),
+        Column('heading', getter=lambda col,row: row.html.xpath('normalize-space(./preceding-sibling::*[self::h1 or self::h2 or self::h3 or self::h4 or self::h5 or self::h6][1])') or None, cache=True),
     ]
     def iterload(self):
         lxml = vd.importExternal('lxml')