HTML Caption tag

Example

A table with a caption:

<table border="1"> <caption>Monthly savings</caption> <tr> <th>Month</th> <th>Savings</th> </tr> <tr> <td>January</td> <td>$100</td> </tr> </table>

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Definition and Usage

The <caption> tag defines a table caption.
The <caption> tag must be inserted immediately after the <table> tag. You can specify only one caption per table. Usually the caption will be centered above the table.

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Browser Support

The <caption> tag is supported in all major browsers.

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Differences Between HTML and XHTML

The "align" attribute of the caption element was deprecated in HTML 4.01, and is not supported in XHTML 1.0 Strict DTD.

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Optional Attributes

DTD indicates in which DTD the attribute is allowed. S=Strict, T=Transitional, and F=Frameset.

Attribute	Value	Description	DTD
align	left right top bottom	Deprecated. Use styles instead. How to align the caption.	TF

Standard Attributes

id, class, title, style, dir, lang, xml:lang

Event Attributes

onclick, ondblclick, onmousedown, onmouseup, onmouseover, onmousemove, onmouseout, onkeypress, onkeydown, onkeyup