Name

caption — HTML 4.01 | HTML5

Synopsis

<caption> . . . </caption>

Provides a summary of a table’s contents or purpose. The caption element must immediately follow the table start tag and precede all other table elements. The align attribute is deprecated in favor of the CSS caption-side property for caption positioning.

Note

In HTML5, if a table is in a dd element in a figure, use the dt element for the table caption instead.

Start/End Tags

Required/Required

Attributes

Core, Internationalization, Events, HTML5 Global Attributes

align="top|bottom|left|right"

Deprecated. Not in HTML5. Positions the caption relative to the table. The default position is top.

Example

See also table listing.

<table>
<caption>A brief description of the data in this
 table.</caption>
<tr>
    <td>data</td><td>data</td>
</tr>
</table>

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