Stylesheets - How do I add captions if they are not supported by IE6?

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How do I add captions if they are not supported by IE6?

harambeegirl

2006-08-09, 7:14 pm

I have read the CSS tutorial at W3Schools.com. It states that the
caption-side property is not supported in IE6. If I want to add captions to
my images, what else can I do?

Spartanicus

2006-08-09, 7:14 pm

"harambeegirl" <ecrystalcornell@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

>I have read the CSS tutorial at W3Schools.com.

Not a good source of information.

>It states that the
>caption-side property is not supported in IE6. If I want to add captions to
>my images

A table with a caption element is not a correct way to mark up an image
and a caption, used correctly the caption element should describe the
nature of the table.

>, what else can I do?

<img ... > caption

Optionally specify the width of the element, set text-align to
"center", float the etc.

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Spartanicus

Jukka K. Korpela

2006-08-10, 6:39 pm

harambeegirl <ecrystalcornell@sbcglobal.net> scripsit:

> I have read the CSS tutorial at W3Schools.com.

It may have helped you get some idea of CSS, but it's certainly a wrong idea
to some extent at least. Try to find something better, such as a good book
on CSS. Check the FAQ resources of this group for some hints.

> It states that the
> caption-side property is not supported in IE6. If I want to add
> captions to my images, what else can I do?

You can use the align="bottom" attribute in HTML.

On the other hand, there are several ways to add captions to images, though
_none_ of them is really good - there is no HTML markup for the purpose, so
everything is more or less kludgery. But see some ideas at
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/www/captions.html

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Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/