Using the <caption> tag

Description

The caption tag is only used to provide a caption for a figure, subfigure, or a table. You can enter a somewhat lengthy description of the figure with the caption tag. In contrast, using the title tag you can enter only a brief title or label that appears above a figure.

Example

This CNXML:


<figure id="fig1">
  <media id="dog-pic" alt="A dog sitting on a bed">
    <image mime-type="image/jpeg" src="image1.jpg"/>
  </media>
  <caption>
    This dog is sitting, unlike some dogs.
  </caption>
</figure>

Results in this display:

**Figure 1:** This dog is sitting, unlike some dogs.

Attributes(what's this?)

id (optional): A unique identifier, whose value must begin with a letter and contain only letters, numbers, hyphens, underscores, colons, and/or periods (no spaces).

Children(what's this?)

term, cite, cite-title, foreign, emphasis, sub, sup, code, preformat, quote, note, list, media, footnote, link, newline, space, Unicode text

Parents(what's this?)

figure, subfigure, table, code

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