caption
caption — A caption.
Synopsis
caption ::=
- Sequence of:
info? (db.titleforbidden.info)- One or more of:
bridgeheaddialoguedramaformalgrouppoetryremarkrevhistorystagedir- Indexing inlines
- Admonition elements
- Formal elements
- Graphic elements
- Informal elements
- List elements
- Paragraph elements
- Publishing elements
- Technical elements
- Verbatim elements
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
- caution must not occur among the children or descendants of caption
- danger must not occur among the children or descendants of caption
- important must not occur among the children or descendants of caption
- note must not occur among the children or descendants of caption
- tip must not occur among the children or descendants of caption
- warning 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, caution, danger, dialogue, drama, epigraph, equation, example, figure, formalgroup, formalpara, glosslist, important, 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, stagedir, table, task, tip, variablelist, warning.
See Also
Related elements: audioobject, imageobject, inlinemediaobject, mediaobject, textobject, videoobject.
Examples
See informalfigure for an example that uses
caption.