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Re: Headings or Table Captions

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From: Jared Smith
Date: Nov 2, 2016 1:16PM

An element can only have one role, so it will be either a caption OR a
heading in this case. You can't have both with one element.

Birkir's recommendation works, but with HTML5 (and it works fine in
earlier HTML, though will cause a validation error), you can put the
heading inside the caption:
<caption><h2>Heading Text</h2></caption>.

Jared