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The HTML `figure` tag

Discover the basics of working with the HTML `figure` tag

Often used along with the img tag is the figure tag.

figure is a semantic tag often used when you want to display an image with a caption. You use it like this:

<figure>
    <img src="dog.png"
         alt="A nice dog">
    <figcaption>A nice dog</figcaption>
</figure>

The figcaption tag wraps the caption text.

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