<caption>

HTML <caption> Tag

Instance

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head> 
<meta charset="utf-8"> 
<title>php中文网(php.cn)</title> 
</head>
<body>

<table border="1">
  <caption>Monthly savings</caption>
  <tr>
    <th>Month</th>
    <th>Savings</th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>January</td>
    <td>0</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>February</td>
    <td></td>
  </tr>
</table>

</body>
</html>

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Browser support

All major browsers support< caption> tag.

Tag definition and usage instructions

<caption> The tag defines the title of the table.

The<caption> tag must be placed directly after the <table> tag.

You can only define one title per table.

Tip: Usually this title will be centered above the table. However, the CSS property "text-align" and "caption-side" can be used to set the alignment and display position of the title.

Differences between HTML 4.01 and HTML5

HTML5 does not support the align attribute.

The align attribute has been deprecated in HTML 4.01.

Properties

Properties	Value	Description
align	left right top Bottom	HTML5 is not supported. HTML 4.01 is deprecated. Define the alignment of the title.

Global attributes

<caption> tag supports global attributes of HTML.

Event attributes

<caption> tag supports HTML event attributes.