Styling the Caption

An unstyled table caption will be displayed above the table. On most modern browsers the caption will be center aligned, but you can change the default caption alignment using text-align: left.

To increase the space between the caption and its table, margin-bottom can be set to .5em.

The caption also can be given more weight to make it stand out from the table content. This is achieved using font-weight:bold as shown in Listing 14.9. The results can be seen in Figure 14.1.

Listing 14.9. CSS Code for Styling the Caption

caption {     text-align: left;     margin: 0 0 .5em 0;     font-weight: bold; } 

Figure 14.1. Screenshot of styled caption.