Photo and Figure Captions

<figure> and <figcaption>

Mediterranean Bagel
A delicious Mediterranean bagel with cherry tomatoes and basil.

There are two rarely used HTML tags that work wonderfully for captioning an image, video, or chart. They are figure and figcaption.

Hint: When you want to caption a table of data, use the <caption> tag instead.

The HTML structure for the bagel photo is:

<figure>
	<img src="photo.jpg">
	<figcaption>A delicious…</figcaption>
</figure

You’ll notice that the <figcaption> is inside the <figure> tag. There can be only one figcaption per figure, and it should be either the first element or last element inside the figure tag.

I will leave the CSS styling as an exercise for you to complete. In the example above, my CSS is:

figure {
	float:right; 
	background-color:white; 
	padding:10px;
	width:250px; 
	margin-left:1.5em;
}
figcaption {
	font-size:smaller;
	margin-top:.5em;
}