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  1. HTML
  2. Guides
  3. Content categories
  4. Comments
  5. Date and time formats
  6. Constraint validation
  7. Viewport meta element
  8. Responsive images
  9. Microdata
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  12. HTML cheatsheet
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  14. Define terms with HTML
  15. Use data attributes
  16. Use cross-origin images
  17. Add a hitmap on top of an image
  18. Author fast-loading HTML pages
  19. Add JavaScript
  20. Reference
  21. Elements
    3. Deprecated
    13. Deprecated

    20. Deprecated
    32. Deprecated
    38. Experimental
    42. Deprecated
    45. Deprecated
    46. Deprecated

Technical summary

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Content categories None.
Permitted content Flow content.
Tag omission The end tag can be omitted if the element is not immediately followed by ASCII whitespace or a comment.
Permitted parents A element, as its first descendant.
Implicit ARIA role caption
Permitted ARIA roles No role permitted
DOM interface HTMLTableCaptionElement

Specifications

Specification
HTML
# the-caption-element

Browser compatibility

See also

  • Learn: HTML table basics
, , , , : Other table-related elements
  • caption-side: CSS property to position the
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    ,
    relative to its parent
  • text-align: CSS property to horizontally align the text content of the

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