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[a] Most captions draw attention to something in the image that is not obvious, such as its relevance to the text. A caption may be a few words or several sentences. Writing good captions takes effort; along with the lead and section headings, captions are the most commonly read words in an article, so they should be succinct and informative.
Caption examples. Photo captions, also known as cutlines, are a few lines of text used to explain and elaborate on published photographs. [1] In some cases captions and cutlines are distinguished, where the caption is a short (usually one-line) title/explanation for the photo, while the cutline is a longer, prose block under the caption, generally describing the photograph, giving context, or ...
Note: To achieve a plain image with a caption, one can use {{Plain image with caption}}. The caption is automatically added as the image's title and alt text, and any wiki markup used on it will be correctly displayed on the caption, but will be automatically stripped down from the alt and title text. See an example here.
For this proposal, we have chosen to place footnotes in the caption area, but directly before any caption text, so that the image footnote is not confused for a footnote of the caption text itself. To clarify that the footnotes refer to the image, I have numbered them separately with "[image 1]" footnotes. This means that they will be listed ...
Hint: to force the caption to be written (underneath the picture) and not just appear as "hover text" even when you wish to resize the image, specify "thumb". If you specify "frame" the caption does appear but any resizing (such as "125px") is ignored. alt=Alt Use Alt as the alt text for the image. Caption
The one "exception I eliminated was this: "Images of the subject of biographical articles (A good caption is best, no caption is okay. A year for the photo is important)." Through an editor's following the guideline as an inflexible rule, an image at George III of Great Britain does not identify the painter's name or the date.
Outbreaks of the highly contagious stomach virus are more than double what they were last year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says
I recently found some captions that were nothing but a year, e.g. (2022) for Huntington Street Baptist Church which I think is just too cryptic and without precedence. After fixing several to align them with typical infobox captions, I was reverted by Beyond My Ken who strongly objected (User_talk:MB#Please_stop_changing_the_captions.