index.md

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title: '<figcaption>: The Figure Caption element'
slug: Web/HTML/Element/figcaption
page-type: html-element
browser-compat: html.elements.figcaption

---

{{HTMLSidebar}}

The <figcaption> HTML element represents a caption or legend describing the rest of the contents of its parent {{HTMLElement("figure")}} element.

{{EmbedInteractiveExample("pages/tabbed/figcaption.html","tabbed-shorter")}}

Attributes

This element only includes the global attributes.

Examples

Please see the {{HTMLElement("figure")}} page for examples on <figcaption>.

Technical summary

Content categories	None.
Permitted content	Flow content.
Tag omission	{{no_tag_omission}}
Permitted parents	A {{HTMLElement("figure")}} element; the <figcaption> element must be its first or last child.
Implicit ARIA role	No corresponding role
Permitted ARIA roles	group, none, presentation
DOM interface	{{domxref("HTMLElement")}}

Specifications

{{Specifications}}

Browser compatibility

{{Compat}}

See also

• The {{HTMLElement("figure")}} element.