Caption may refer to: Caption (text), explanatory text about specific published photos and articles An element of comics where words appear in a separate box; see Caption (comics convention), a small press and independent comic convention held annually in Oxford, England Caption (law), arrest or apprehension Closed captioning, used to provide the text of a show's audio portion to those who may have trouble hearing it Subtitles, textual versions of the dialog in film and other visual media Intertitle, a piece text edited into a film to convey information like dialogue , an HTML element; see