Caption (HTML element)

In HTML, the caption element represents the title of the table that is its parent, if it has a parent and that is a table element.

Description

A caption can introduce context for a table, making it significantly easier to understand.

When a table element is the only content in a figure element other than the figcaption, the caption element should be omitted in favor of the figcaption.

Examples

<table>
  <caption>
    <p>table 1. Sample table</p>
  </caption>
  <tr>
    <td>1</td>
    <td>2</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>3</td>
    <td>4</td>
  </tr>
</table>

See also

• HTML
• HTML element
• Table (HTML element)
• Tables (HTML)

External links

• caption @ w3.org