caption

caption — A caption.

Synopsis

caption ::=

Attributes

Common attributes and common linking attributes.

No additional 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
  • 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.

Attributes

Common attributes and common linking attributes.

any attribute

Any attribute in any other explicit namespace

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.