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HTML provides elements that add visible descriptions to <img> elements.
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At the end of the previous video,
I suggested that you add the vr-user.jpg
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image inside the article.html file,
located inside the 2017 subfolder.
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If you haven't done that part yet,
that's okay, I'll quickly teach you how.
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So to display the image we need to
reference a file in the image directory
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from inside the articles
in 2017 subfolders.
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So we need to move out of the 2017 and
articles subfolder.
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Back up to the root, and
then back down inside the img folder.
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So over in article.html,
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let's add an image element right
below the closing header tag.
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Add the source attribute and
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remember to instruct the browser to go
up one level out of the current folder.
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We include a ../ in the file path and
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in this case we need two to go
up to the root of the project.
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Then, to reference the image
inside the img folder,
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I'll add the path /img/vr-user.jpg.
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Let's provide some alt text
with the alt attribute.
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And this text will say
User trying a VR headset.
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Click over to our article and
there you go.
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There's our VR user image.
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HTML also provides elements that add
visible descriptions to image elements.
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In magazines, newspapers and
books for example, images and
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illustrations are usually accompanied
by a caption describing them.
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So the figure element provides
a container for images and their caption.
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And the figcaption element lets
you add a caption to an image.
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It associates a caption with
its apparent figure element.
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So now let's add a caption to
the image in the about section.
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So in index.html,
we'll wrap our image tag and figure tags
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Next below the image, we will nest a set
of opening and closing big caption tags.
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So figcaption is closely related
to the alt attribute you learned
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about in the previous video.
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It's a supporting description
displayed with the image.
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So for this, I'll select and cut
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the text inside the images title attribute
and paste it inside the fake caption.
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And we can also delete the title
attribute from the image tag.
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We'll give this a save.
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Refresh the browser.
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Let's click back to Home.
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And as you can see, by default,
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the browser applies space
around a figure element.
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So now it's indented.
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And you're also able to nest
multiple images within one
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figure element with a single caption,
if they all share the same caption.
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So feel free to add images to the project
and place them inside figure elements and
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apply captions with the caption.
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