Posted by Adrienne Boswell on 11/04/07 16:34

Gazing into my crystal ball I observed "Jukka K. Korpela"
<jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> writing in
news:I0fXi.247231$4L7.32357@reader1.news.saunalahti.fi:

> Scripsit Adrienne Boswell:
>
>>> I have a bunch of images (say, half a dozen)
>>> that I want to place vertically down a page.
>>> I want to put the captions beside them.
> [...]
>>> What I'd like to do is alternate them this way:
>
> The right answer is "stop wanting that".
>
>> I would say this could be tabular data, where the headers would be
>> image and data describing the image. Use a table.
>
> In the alternating scenario, it's hardly a table logically.
>
> In a scenario with one column of images and another column of
> captions, each associated with the image on the same row, we have
> tabular data - and a
><table> element may well be the best approach.
>

Right... missed that part about alternating in the OP.

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