caption

Child Nodes or Content

= Optional element or attribute

Parent Elements

figure (basic)

figure (for teacher)

Code Sample

<figure figType="image">

<para paraID="3"><image altText="Receiving the Mother Teresa award" webURL="teresa-award.tif"/></para>

<caption>

<para paraID="4">The Very Reverend Joseph Mayo, right, presents the Mother Teresa Award to Craig Jessop, left, and Mac Christensen after the Choir’s Music and the Spoken Word performance.</para>

</caption>

<credit>

<para paraID="5">Photograph by Jeffery D. Allred/Courtesy Deseret Morning News</para>

</credit>

</figure>

Notes

For an image to have a caption, it must be inside a figure.

Generally, do not use styling elements like <strong>, <emphasis>, <smallCaps>, or <allCaps> for caption paragraphs. This will be done with paragraph styles in InDesign and on the Web. The exception is when only a portion of the caption paragraph needs the style.

See Also

• credit
• citationInfo
• kicker

Marking in Microsoft Word

Use one of the following paragraph styles, based on the figType attribute in the figure containing the caption: