14555 2011-10-25 07:26:20 +0000 Hi, I'd just like to understand why not using the already-defined "caption" tag, currently used only for tables, as a child of the new "figure" tag. Thanks. 2012-07-18 18:40:07 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified WHATWG HTML unspecified Other other RESOLVED WONTFIX http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-figcaption-element P3 normal Unsorted 1 contributor ian ian mike contributor oldest_to_newest 58891 0 contributor 2011-10-25 07:26:20 +0000 Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/grouping-content.html Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#the-figcaption-element Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#the-figcaption-element Comment: Hi, I'd just like to understand why not using the already-defined "caption" tag, currently used only for tables, as a child of the new "figure" tag. Thanks. Posted from: 109.9.172.77 by leandro.mattioli@gmail.com User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/7.0.1 59151 1 ian 2011-10-28 20:07:21 +0000 EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document: http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html Status: Rejected Change Description: no spec change Rationale: I wanted to, or at least, failing that, <legend>, but it turns out the parsing behaviour around those elements makes them unusable in other contexts.