How to Add a Web Caption That Stays With Its Image

How to Add a Web Caption That Stays With Its Image

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How to Add a Web Caption That Stays With Its Image

By Jennifer Kyrnin Jennifer Kyrnin Freelance Contributor University of California University of Washington Jennifer Kyrnin is a professional web developer who assists others in learning web design, HTML, CSS, and XML. lifewire's editorial guidelines Updated on March 10, 2022 Reviewed by Jessica Kormos Reviewed by Jessica Kormos Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College Jessica Kormos is a writer and editor with 15 years' experience writing articles, copy, and UX content for Tecca.com, Rosenfeld Media, and many others. lifewire's editorial guidelines Tweet Share Email Tweet Share Email Design Graphic Design Photoshop Animation & Video 3D Design

What to Know

In the HTML, place a div tag around the image and add a div style attribute.Set the div width to the image width, add a text-align property, add space between the image and caption, then add the text caption. This article explains how to add a caption to your web image and make sure the caption stays with your image wherever you move it on the web page.

Steps to an HTML Image Caption

Image captions are important because they add extra information to your visual web page elements. Add an image to your webpage. In the HTML for your webpage, place a div tag around the image:
alternate text< Add a style attribute to the div tag:
alternate textalternate textalternate textalternate textalternate textalternate textThis is my caption Upload the webpage to your server and test it in a browser.

Captioning Tips

CSS dimensions can be in many different measurements, so you usually must include the measurement type. For example: However, HTML image dimensions are always in pixels, so you leave the measurement off. If you make the width of the div wider than the image width, the caption may appear beside the image. If this is what you want, then add a
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