Help on using the <figure> tag

The figure tag is used to provide the structure for inserting a figure into a CNXML document. A figure may contain an image, multimedia object, or caption tag.

Example

This CNXML:


<figure id="cute-dog">
  <title>The World's Cutest Dog</title>
  <media id="dogpic" alt="A dog sitting on a bed">
    <image mime-type="image/jpeg" src="image1.jpg" />
  </media>
  <caption>
     Notice how cute the dog is just sitting there.
  </caption>
</figure>

Results in this display:

**Figure 1:** Notice how cute the dog is just sitting there.
The World's Cutest Dog

Attributes(what's this?)

orient (optional): Allows you to determine which way subfigure elements are arranged. Has no effect if the figure has no subfigure children.
Possible values:
- horizontal - Subfigures appear side by side (default).
- vertical - Subfigures appear one on top of the other.
type (optional): Defines the type of figure in order to give specialized control over numbering. Figures of the same type are numbered in series (i.e., Figure 1, Figure 2...). Type can be used in conjunction with label so that figures of each user-defined type appear with their own label. Type can be any user-defined value that reflects the purpose of the figure.
id (required): 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?)

First, figure may contain an optional label tag, followed by an optional title tag. Next, it must contain:

Two or more subfigure tags, - OR -
One media tag, - OR -
One table tag, - OR -
One code tag.

Finally, figure may contain an optional caption tag.

Using the <figure> tag

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