In books and newspapers, it is common to have captions with images. The purpose of a caption is to add a visual explanation to an image. With HTML5, images and captions can be grouped together in <figure> elements:
<figure style="border:4px solid teal;"">
<img src="../html_beg/images/ghost.png" alt="My Pet Ghost" width="256" height="256" class="center" /> <figcaption style="text-align:center;"> Figure #1: -- My pet ghost </figcaption> </figure> |
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The <img> element defines the image, the <figcaption> element defines the caption.