The HTML <figcaption>
element represents a caption or a legend associated with a figure or an illustration described by the rest of the data of the <figure>
element which is its immediate ancestor.
Content categories | None. |
---|---|
Permitted content | Flow content. |
Tag omission | None, both the starting and ending tag are mandatory. |
Permitted parents | A <figure> element; the <figcaption> element must be its first or last child. |
Permitted ARIA roles | group , presentation |
DOM interface | HTMLElement |
Attributes
This element only includes the global attributes.
Examples
Please see the <figure>
page for examples on <figcaption>
.
Specifications
Specification | Status | Comment |
---|---|---|
HTML Living Standard The definition of '<figcaption>' in that specification. |
Living Standard | |
HTML5 The definition of '<figcaption>' in that specification. |
Recommendation |
Browser compatibility
The compatibility table in this page is generated from structured data. If you'd like to contribute to the data, please check out https://github.com/mdn/browser-compat-data and send us a pull request.
Feature | Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Internet Explorer | Opera | Safari |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Basic support | 8 | Yes | 4 | 9 | 11 | 5.1 |
Feature | Android webview | Chrome for Android | Edge mobile | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | iOS Safari | Samsung Internet |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Basic support | Yes | Yes | Yes | 4 | 11 | 5.1 | Yes |
See also
- The
<figure>
element.