How do I caption an image?

Julia_L

When I embed an image into a Canvas page, I would like to add a caption (not just alt text), sometimes with an attribution and/or link to the image's source. Is that possible?

Gabriel33

It is, but you will need to open and edit the HTML of the Rich Content Editor: How do I use the HTML view in the Rich Content Edi... - Instructure Community - 618225

If you already added an image using one of the standard RCE processes for adding images, then after opening the HTML view, you would surround the tag with

tags, and then add <<SPAN class="tagnamecolor">figcaption> tags within the

tags.

For example:

<figure>
<img src="files/21370380/preview" alt="Alt text here" data-api-endpoint="files/21370380" data-api-returntype="File" />
<figcaption>Fig 1 - Caption here</figcaption>
</figure>

 

--EDIT--

Interestingly, figure and figcaption are not in the HTML allowlist, but they still seem to work on my end. If someone has an idea why, please let me know. "Caption" is an allowed tag, so that could be an alternative if figcaption stops working.