Not unexpectedly, the goal of the semantic element figure is to
flag illustrations, diagrams, and other content blocks that are
referred to from the main content of the document. The author
usually makes the referral in the text with a simple “See
Exhibit 1″ or “See Illustration B,” or something along those
lines. Content that could fall into this category include code
samples, charts, graphs, and photos. The HTML spec even uses a
poem as an example of a figure. See this example figure (which
itself could be flagged by a figure element on this blog page –
whoa, meta!): <p>The third quarter results were disappointing.
For details, see Figure 2.</p> <img src="sales_Q3_FY12.jpeg"
alt="Third quarter sales results"> <figcaption>Figure 2: Q3
sales results</figcaption> figcaption element in the example is
optional and self-explanatory.) According to the HTML5 spec, one
property of the figure element is that it “could, without
affecting the flow of the document, be moved away from [the]
primary content, e.g. to the s