`<figure>`

The <figure> tag creates a numbered figure with a caption and a primary visual object such as an <image>, <video>, or <sidebyside>.

Use <figure> when the content should be numbered, titled, and available for cross-references.

Syntax

Variants

There are 2 variants of <figure>.

Attributes

Attributes for `<figure>`
Attribute	Required?	Values
`component = "…"`	optional	`string`
`label = "…"`	optional	`string`
`landscape = "…"`	optional	`"yes"``"no"`
`xml:id = "…"`	optional	`string`
`xml:lang = "…"`	optional	`string`

Children

The following may appear as children: <audio> <caption> <idx> <image> <p> <sbsgroup> <score> <sidebyside> <title> <video>

Parents

This element may appear as an immediate child of the following elements: <activity> <algorithm> <answer> <appendix> <article> <case> <chapter> <claim> <computation> <conclusion> <context> <convention> <corollary> <data> <discussion> <example> <exercise> <exploration> <fact> <handout> <hint> <identity> <insight> <introduction> <investigation> <lemma> <li> <note> <observation> <opinion> <page> <paragraphs> <problem> <project> <proof> <proposition> <question> <remark> <section> <slide> <solution> <statement> <status> <subsection> <subslide> <subsubsection> <suggestion> <task> <technology> <theorem> <warning> <worksheet>

Attributes

Attributes for `<figure>`
Attribute	Required?	Values
`component = "…"`	optional	`string`
`label = "…"`	optional	`string`
`landscape = "…"`	optional	`"yes"``"no"`
`xml:id = "…"`	optional	`string`
`xml:lang = "…"`	optional	`string`

Children

The following may appear as children: <caption> <idx> <image> <p> <score> <title>

Parents

This element may appear as an immediate child of the following elements: <sidebyside>

Examples

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