- From: Michel Fortin <michel.fortin@michelf.com>
- Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 10:18:40 -0500
Le 22 nov. 2006 ? 9:53, Alexey Feldgendler a ?crit : > On Wed, 22 Nov 2006 20:42:11 +0600, Michel Fortin > <michel.fortin at michelf.com> wrote: > >> So I propose a new <fcaption> elements -- for "figure caption" -- in >> replacement for the <caption> element in my previous figure >> construct: >> >> <figure> >> <fcaption>Caption Text</fcaption> >> <img src="..."> >> </figure> >> >> And if I were to propose a default styling for this, it'd be this >> one: >> >> figure { display: table; } >> fcaption { display: table-caption; } > > <figure> cannot be used like this: > > [...] Indeed, <figure> markup cannot express a full table -- but it doesn't need to. Following CSS 2.1 [1], anonymous boxes are created for rows and cells wherever appropriate. In the previous example, an anonymous row and an anonymous cell are created to hold the content of the figure. The figure effectively behave visually as a one-cell table with a caption. [1]: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/tables.html#anonymous-boxes It works pretty well in browsers that implement `display: table`. And a not-so-bad fallback for browsers that do not implement the CSS table display model (IE) is to display both <figure> and <fcaption> as blocks, setting the width explicitly for floated figures (so that the caption does not extend the box horizontally). Michel Fortin michel.fortin at michelf.com http://www.michelf.com/
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