caption (db.caption)
caption — A caption.
Synopsis
- Sequence of:
info? (db.titleforbidden.info)- One or more of:
annotationbridgeheadremarkrevhistory- Indexing inlines
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- Admonition elements
- Formal elements
- Graphic elements
- Informal elements
informalequationinformalexampleinformalfigureinformaltable(db.cals.informaltable)informaltable(db.html.informaltable)
- List elements
- Paragraph elements
- Publishing elements
- Synopsis elements
- Technical elements
- Verbatim elements
Attributes
Additional Constraints
- example must not occur in the descendants of caption
- figure must not occur in the descendants of caption
- table must not occur in the descendants of caption
- equation must not occur in the descendants of caption
- sidebar must not occur in the descendants of caption
- task must not occur in the descendants of caption
- caution must not occur in the descendants of caption
- important must not occur in the descendants of caption
- note must not occur in the descendants of caption
- tip must not occur in the descendants of caption
- warning must not occur in the descendants of caption
Description
A caption is an extended description of a
mediaobject or figure or other
formal or informal element. Unlike a textobject,
which is an alternative to the other elements in the
mediaobject, the caption augments
the object.
Processing expectations
Formatted as a displayed block.
Parents
These elements contain caption: equation, example, figure, informalequation, informalexample, informalfigure, informaltable (db.cals.informaltable), mediaobject, table (db.cals.table).
Children ![[+]](figs/web/nav/right.gif)
This element contains 60 elements.
See Also
audioobject, caption (db.html.caption), imageobject, inlinemediaobject, mediaobject, textobject, videoobject
Examples
See informalfigure for and example that uses caption.