caption
caption — A caption.
Synopsis
- Sequence of:
info
? (db.titleforbidden.info)- One or more of:
bridgehead
dialogue
drama
poetry
remark
revhistory
- Indexing inlines
- Admonition elements
- Formal elements
- Graphic elements
- Informal elements
- List elements
- Paragraph elements
- Publishing elements
- Technical elements
- Verbatim elements
Attributes
Additional Constraints
- example must not occur among the children or descendants of caption
- figure must not occur among the children or descendants of caption
- table must not occur among the children or descendants of caption
- equation must not occur among the children or descendants of caption
- sidebar must not occur among the children or descendants of caption
- task must not occur among the children or descendants of caption
- note must not occur among the children or 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
, mediaobject
, table
.
Children
The following elements occur in caption: address
, anchor
, bibliolist
, blockquote
, bridgehead
, calloutlist
, dialogue
, drama
, epigraph
, equation
, example
, figure
, formalpara
, glosslist
, indexterm
(db.indexterm.endofrange), indexterm
(db.indexterm.singular), indexterm
(db.indexterm.startofrange), info
(db.titleforbidden.info), informalequation
, informalexample
, informalfigure
, informaltable
, itemizedlist
, literallayout
, mediaobject
, note
, orderedlist
, para
, poetry
, procedure
, qandaset
, remark
, revhistory
, sidebar
, simpara
, simplelist
, table
, task
, variablelist
.
See Also
Examples
See informalfigure
for and example that uses caption
.