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From: Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>
Subject: Re: WISH: Add the possiblity to add captions to tables/images
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To: Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>
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Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl> writes:

> HTML does not really have a natural way to add a caption to an image
> or a table (as far as I know, that is).  What structural element
> would you propose?

Tables are easy.

<table> blah
<caption> the caption goes here </caption>
<tr> 
...
</tr>
</table>

http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/tables.html#h-11.2.2

For images you can do it with CSS

http://www.w3.org/Style/Examples/007/figures

-Bernt