: The Figure Caption element - HTML: HyperText Markup Language | MDN (original) (raw)

Baseline

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The <figcaption> HTML element represents a caption or legend describing the rest of the contents of its parent

element, providing the <figure> an accessible description.

Try it

<figure>
  <img
    src="/shared-assets/images/examples/elephant.jpg"
    alt="Elephant at sunset" />
  <figcaption>An elephant at sunset</figcaption>
</figure>

figure {
  border: thin #c0c0c0 solid;
  display: flex;
  flex-flow: column;
  padding: 5px;
  max-width: 220px;
  margin: auto;
}

img {
  max-width: 220px;
  max-height: 150px;
}

figcaption {
  background-color: #222;
  color: #fff;
  font: italic smaller sans-serif;
  padding: 3px;
  text-align: center;
}

Attributes

This element only includes the global attributes.

Examples

Please see the

page for examples on <figcaption>.

Technical summary

Content categories	None.
Permitted content	Flow content.
Tag omission	None, both the starting and ending tag are mandatory.
Permitted parents	A element; the element must be its first or last child.
Implicit ARIA role	No corresponding role
Permitted ARIA roles	group, none,presentation
DOM interface	HTMLElement

Specifications

Specification
HTML # the-figcaption-element