<caption>

Zusammenfassung

Das HTML-Element <caption> (oder auch HTML-Tabellenüberschrift-Element) stellt den Titel einer Tabelle dar. Somit it dieses immer das erste untergeordnete Element einer Tabelle (<table>). Das Layout wird über CSS festegelegt, es ist relativ zur Tabelle.

Attribute

Dieses Dokument unterstützt die globalen Attribute.

align Unerwünscht HTML4.01 Veraltet seit HTML5

This enumerated attribute indicates how the caption must be aligned with respect to the table. It may have the following values:

• left, displayed to the left of the table
• top, displayed before the the table
• right, displayed to the right of the table
• bottom, displayed under the table

Usage note: Do not use this attribute, as it has been deprecated: the <caption> element should be styled using CSS. To give a similar effect to the align attribute, use the the CSS properties caption-side and text-align.

Examples

Please see the <table> page for examples on <caption>

Specifications

Browser compatibility

See also

• Other table-related HTML Elements: <col>, <colgroup>, <table>, <tbody>, <td>, <tfoot>, <th>, <thead>, <tr>;
• CSS properties that may be specially useful to style the <caption> element:
  • text-align, caption-side.