Images and Captions with Javascript
Most awesome stuff has been happening recently in the world. For example, Pluto got demoted to the status of a dwarf planet.
Then there's the unearthing of the 3.5 million-year-old skeleton of Lucy's sister Salem in Ethiopia.
- Dukedom
- Earldom
- Monte Cresto
- Excellent
- Ecletic
- Grandiloquent
- Bombast
I'm another paragraph. I don't really need this but I just wanted to show it. I need to write more before the blockquote goes down far enough to give me a clear understanding of how much space it leaves between itself and whatever comes before it.
Say, I'm a blockquote.
And there's no reason we can't have two paragraphs in a blockquote.
You want to show a caption for your image? Me too. It's a pity that we can't use
the <caption> element with an image. I thought about using a def.
list to associate the image with its caption, but I really didn't want to go to the
extra trouble every single time. So: I decided to go the javascript way. An acronym, an abbreviation,
a citation or two, some code that doesn't look at
all like code, and some deleted text go to a bar [...]


Alexander the Great, aka, Megas Alexandros, aka Alexander III. A brilliant
military strategist.
Illegitimate son of Philip II, making him the half-brother of Alexander the
Great.
Known as "Artabanus" by early scholars but currently goes by the name "Arsaces."
"Balash [...] was the brother and successor of Peroz I of Persia (457 – 484),
who had died in a battle against the Hephthalites (White Huns) who invalided Persia
from the east." Supposed to be new — that's new. ;-)
His name means "made by God," which unfortuantely didn't stop him from dying. He's
just except for his "strict religious policies..." So you mean he wasn't just? :p