How to create a caption for a figure element using HTML5 ?

Last Updated : 11 Jun, 2020

In this article, you learn how to create a caption for a figure element by using the <figcaption> tag in the document. This new tag in the HTML5 page is used to set a caption to the figure element in a document.

Syntax:

<figcaption> Figure caption </figcaption>

Example: The following example demonstrates to apply caption for a HTML figure element.

<!DOCTYPE html> 
<html> 
  
<head> 
    <title> 
        How to define a caption  
        for a figure element? 
    </title> 
  
    <style> 
        body { 
            text-align: center; 
        } 
  
        h1 { 
            color: green; 
        } 
    </style> 
</head> 
  
<body> 
    <h1>GeeksforGeeks</h1> 
  
    <h2> 
        HTML5: How to define a  
        caption for a figure  
        element? 
    </h2> 
  
    <figure> 
        <img src= 
"https://media.geeksforgeeks.org/wp-content/uploads/geeks-25.png"
        alt="gfglogo" style="width:50%"> 
  
        <figcaption> 
            GeeksforGeeks Logo 
        </figcaption> 
    </figure> 
</body> 
  
</html>                         