I suggested this before:

    <figure>
      <img src="...">
      <caption>Some image found <a href="...">here</a></caption>
    </figure>

but now I'm aiming at something simpler.

When you read some text, a figure is an illustration of what the text says; it can be an image but is not necessarily: it could be a code snippet, illustrative text or an mathematical equation. Its main characteristic is that it is separated from the flow of the text: you can read the text ignoring figures (and captions) and it should still make sense.

So what did I just describe? It just seems to me that I've described is the aside element. Would it make sense to simply lay out figures that way?

    <aside>
      <h1>Figure 1: Some image found <a href="...">here</a></h1>
      <p><img src="..."></p>
    </aside>

What about placing the image above the header? And is my interpretation of the semantics correct? I'm wondering that I may be abusing aside a little.


Michel Fortin
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