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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN"
   "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd">
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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<title>CAPTION - Table Caption</title>
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<h1>CAPTION - Table Caption</h1>
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    <th>Syntax</th>
    <td><strong class=required>&lt;CAPTION&gt;</strong>...<strong class=required>&lt;/CAPTION&gt;</strong></td>
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    <th>Attribute Specifications</th>
    <td>
      <ul>
        <li class=transitional>ALIGN=[ top | bottom | left | right] (caption alignment)</li>
        <li><a href="../attrs.html">common attributes</a></li>
      </ul>
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    <th>Contents</th>
    <td><a href="../inline.html">Inline elements</a></td>
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    <th>Contained in</th>
    <td><a href="table.html">TABLE</a></td>
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<p>The <strong class=html>CAPTION</strong> element defines a <em>table caption</em>. When used, <strong class=html>CAPTION</strong> must be the first element in the <strong class=html><a href="table.html">TABLE</a></strong>. Only <a href="../inline.html">inline elements</a> (<abbr title="for example"><i lang=la>e.g.</i></abbr>, <strong class=html><a href="../phrase/strong.html">STRONG</a></strong>) may be used within <strong class=html>CAPTION</strong>.</p>
<p>A good caption should provide a short heading for the table. For simple tables, the caption can also act as an adequate summary, but for more complex tables, authors should supplement the <strong class=html>CAPTION</strong> with a full summary, either through <strong class=html><a href="table.html">TABLE</a></strong>'s <strong class=html><a href="table.html#summary">SUMMARY</a></strong> attribute or within a paragraph outside of the <strong class=html>TABLE</strong>. The following example features a simple table where the <strong class=html>CAPTION</strong> provides a heading and an adequate table summary:</p>
<pre class=example><code class=html>&lt;TABLE&gt;
  <strong>&lt;CAPTION&gt;Common Usenet Abbreviations&lt;/CAPTION&gt;</strong>
  &lt;THEAD&gt;
    &lt;TR&gt;
      &lt;TH&gt;Abbreviation&lt;/TH&gt;
      &lt;TH&gt;Long Form&lt;/TH&gt;
    &lt;/TR&gt;
  &lt;/THEAD&gt;
  &lt;TBODY&gt;
    &lt;TR&gt;
      &lt;TD&gt;AFAIK&lt;/TD&gt;
      &lt;TD&gt;As Far As I Know&lt;/TD&gt;
    &lt;/TR&gt;
    &lt;TR&gt;
      &lt;TD&gt;IMHO&lt;/TD&gt;
      &lt;TD&gt;In My Humble Opinion&lt;/TD&gt;
    &lt;/TR&gt;
    &lt;TR&gt;
      &lt;TD&gt;OTOH&lt;/TD&gt;
      &lt;TD&gt;On The Other Hand&lt;/TD&gt;
    &lt;/TR&gt;
  &lt;/TBODY&gt;
&lt;/TABLE&gt;</code></pre>
<p>The next example uses <strong class=html>TABLE</strong>'s <strong class=html>SUMMARY</strong> attribute to complement the <strong class=html>CAPTION</strong>:</p>
<pre class=example><code class=html>&lt;TABLE SUMMARY="This table gives the character entity reference,
                decimal character reference, and hexadecimal character
                reference for symbols and Greek letters."&gt;
  <strong>&lt;CAPTION&gt;Symbols and Greek Letters in HTML4.0&lt;/CAPTION&gt;</strong>
  &lt;COLGROUP&gt;
  &lt;COLGROUP SPAN=3&gt;
  &lt;THEAD&gt;
    &lt;TR&gt;
      &lt;TH SCOPE=col&gt;Character&lt;/TH&gt;
      &lt;TH SCOPE=col&gt;Entity&lt;/TH&gt;
      &lt;TH SCOPE=col&gt;Decimal&lt;/TH&gt;
      &lt;TH SCOPE=col&gt;Hex&lt;/TH&gt;
    &lt;/TR&gt;
  &lt;/THEAD&gt;
  &lt;TBODY&gt;
    &lt;TR&gt;
      &lt;TD SCOPE=row&gt;Latin small f with hook&lt;/TD&gt;
      &lt;TD&gt;&amp;amp;fnof;&lt;/TD&gt;
      &lt;TD&gt;&amp;amp;#402;&lt;/TD&gt;
      &lt;TD&gt;&amp;amp;#x192;&lt;/TD&gt;
    &lt;/TR&gt;
    <var>...</var>
  &lt;/TBODY&gt;
&lt;/TABLE&gt;</code></pre>
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<p>The <a href="../deprecated.html">deprecated</a> <strong class=html>ALIGN</strong> attribute of <strong class=html>CAPTION</strong> specifies the alignment of the caption relative to the table. Possible values are <strong class=html>top</strong> (the default), <strong class=html>bottom</strong>, <strong class=html>left</strong>, and <strong class=html>right</strong>.</p>
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<h2>More Information</h2>
<ul>
  <li><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/tables.html#edef-CAPTION">CAPTION in <abbr class=initialism title="World Wide Web Consortium">W3C</abbr> HTML4.0 Recommendation</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html32#table">CAPTION in <abbr class=initialism title="World Wide Web Consortium">W3C</abbr> HTML3.2 Recommendation</a></li>
  <li><a href="../../wilbur/table/caption.html">CAPTION in <abbr class=initialism title="Web Design Group">WDG</abbr> HTML3.2 Reference</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://www.malibutelecom.com/yucca/HTML3.2/5.13.html">CAPTION in <cite>Learning HTML3.2 by Examples</cite></a></li>
</ul>
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