HTML: Figure Tag

figure

used for including figures as in a book, typically a image, such as: illustration, image, photo, diagram, but can also be video, animation, table, code example, etc.

figcaption

for figure caption. Must be inside figure, and must be first or last item.

example:

<figure>
<img src="i/tile_A.png" alt="tile A" width="128" height="128" />
<figcaption>
tile A
</figcaption>
</figure>

browser shows:

Warning: the figcaption tag must be the first or last child of the figure tag.

Browser Support

As of 2011-07-22, all major browsers support it.

As of 2011-03-24 Safari (5.0.4) and Opera (11.01) don't support it. Google Chrome (10.0.648.151), Firefox 4.0, IE9, all support it.