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title: Figures
description: Documentation and examples for displaying related images and text with the figure component in Bootstrap.
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---

Anytime you need to display a piece of content—like an image with an optional caption, consider using a `<figure>`.

Use the included `.figure`, `.figure-img` and `.figure-caption` classes to provide some baseline styles for the HTML5 `<figure>` and `<figcaption>` elements. Images in figures have no explicit size, so be sure to add the `.img-fluid` class to your `<img>` to make it responsive.

<Example code={`
    <Placeholder width="400" height="300" class="figure-img img-fluid rounded" />
    
A caption for the above image.
  
`} />

Aligning the figure’s caption is easy with our [text utilities]([[docsref:/utilities/text#text-alignment]]).

<Example code={`
    <Placeholder width="400" height="300" class="figure-img img-fluid rounded" />
    
A caption for the above image.
  
`} />

## CSS

### Sass variables

<ScssDocs name="figure-variables" file="scss/_variables.scss" />
