# Ondersteuning voor afbeeldingsbijschriften - naast alternatieve tekst

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/support-image-captions-in-addition-to-alt-text/333922
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [31 oktober 2024 om 20:54 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/support-image-captions-in-addition-to-alt-text/333922 "2024-10-31T20:54:53Z")
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### Author: ![shortmort37](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/shortmort37/32/538876_2.png) [@shortmort37](https://meta.discourse.org/u/shortmort37)
#### Post date: [15 januari 2026 om 16:06 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/support-image-captions-in-addition-to-alt-text/333922/9 "2026-01-15T16:06:11Z")

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Thanks, Todd, for the reference to CommonMark - I did not know about it before now, and now this thread makes more sense to me.

I’ve been running a phpBB board for 22 years now, and over the years I hacked it quite a bit to meet my needs: Gallery display, support for inline PDFs, Litebox, and captioning (with/without Litebox). When you mentioned `figcaption`, it triggered me. Here’s a snippet from `attachment.html`, a template that I hacked:

```
  `<figure><a data-fancybox="gallery1" href="{_file.U_DOWNLOAD_LINK}" data-caption="{_file.COMMENT}"><img src="{_file.THUMB_IMAGE}" class="postimage" alt="{_file.DOWNLOAD_NAME}" title="{_file.DOWNLOAD_NAME} ({_file.FILESIZE} {_file.SIZE_LANG}) {_file.L_DOWNLOAD_COUNT}" /></a>
  <!-- ENDIF -->
  <!-- IF _file.COMMENT --><figcaption>{_file.COMMENT}</figcaption><!-- ENDIF -->
  </figure>`

```

Our friend `figcaption`.

It’s time for me to move on from phpBB; it’s outlived its usefulness, and Discourse is a much more robust platform. But - while I can’t speak authoritatively regarding CommonMark, or why it should be adhered to - I can say that the inability to caption images, PDFs, video, audio, etc. in Discourse is for me a serious omission. However it is handled, there should be some provision.

Just my $0.02.  
-Dan

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