[whatwg] The IMG element, proposing a CAPTION attribute

[Alexey Feldgendler]

On Mon, 13 Nov 2006 22:30:13 +0600, Jeff Seager <Jeff.Seager at wvdrs.org> wrote:

> After reflecting on your points and others, Alexey, I do expect more of
> a caption than I expect of a simple attribute. Most importantly, I
> expect it to be visible by default if I have a visible picture. For that
> reason, I agree now with those who suggest a CAPTION (or LEGEND)
> element, rather than an attribute.

I totally agree with you here.

I believe HTML should have an element for every attribute intended to hold human-readable text. A raw idea can go like this:

<img id="img1" src="...">
<label for="img1" type="title">...</label>

Here, <label> holds a value which should be treated the same way like the title attribute on <img>, except that it can contain nested markup. This would be useful for all attributes defined as %Text in HTML -- in HTML4, these are ABBR, ALT, LABEL, STANDBY, SUMMARY, TITLE. However, doing a full straightforward solution like this may be bad for backward compatibility, especially in the case of ALT. But the idea is: whenever we write an attribute of type %Text, we want text with markup, so an element instead of attribute is needed.


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