Table Captions

You'll notice that when we look at the table from the previous page, there is no explicit label identifying the contents of the table. That's where table captions come in. Table captions (limit of 1 per table, please) convey a title for the entire table.

In reading the previous table, I think you'll agree that the addition of the caption below makes the purpose of the table much clearer:

New England Signers of the Declaration of Independence
Connecticut signers:
Roger Sherman
Samuel Huntington
William Williams
Oliver Wolcott
 Massachusetts signers:
Samuel Adams
John Adams
Robert Treat Paine
Elbridge Gerry
John Hancock
New Hampshire signers:
Josiah Bartlett
William Whipple
Matthew Thornton		 Rhode Island signers:
Stephen Hopkins
William Ellery

The CAPTION element must be inserted immediately after the TABLE element, otherwise it's display is entirely unpredictable:

<TABLE border="1" align="left" cellspacing="10" cellpadding="0" >
<CAPTION align="left">New England Signers of the Declaration of Independence</CAPTION>

<CAPTION align="align_value">
        align = "left" or "center" or "right"

 

 

 

 

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