Caption on an image using CSS

[Eric]

I want to do the following using CSS, and I just can't seem to find the
solution:

There is some text here that describes some research or something that I'm
doing. Part of the results of the research is a graph that I want to display as
Figure 1.

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| Graph Here |
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Figure 1: This is the Graph

Then the text continues here.

I shouldn't have to put the image and the text into a table to get it to be
centered with a caption. There must be some way that I can group the image and
its caption together and then have the grouping centered. Does anyone know
how?

Thanks.

[Jukka K. Korpela]

"Eric" <er**@localhost .localdomain> wrote:

I want to do the following using CSS,
So is this about HTML, which we discuss here, or about CSS, which is
discussed in the next room (c.i.w.a.styles heets)?
and I just can't seem to find the solution:
There are many solutions to the problem of image captioning, but no really
good solution, since there is no really appropriate markup for an image
caption in HTML. The difficult part is to choose among the various
solutions (or workarounds).
I shouldn't have to put the image and the text into a table to get it
to be centered with a caption.
You don't have to do so, but to tell a public secret, it might be the
easiest way. You might even find some alleged Purists who say, with a
straight face, that it would be a data table (with a single data cell and a
caption) and that you could alternatively use a two-cell data table, with
the image in one cell and the caption text in another cell, which acts as a
header cell.
There must be some way that I can group
the image and its caption together and then have the grouping centered.

Yes, you can wrap them inside a <div> element and then center it using CSS,
which is actually more difficult than people often think.

I've written a comparison of some methods:
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/www/captions.html

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