CSS Newbie Example: Simple, Stylish and Swappable Image Captions

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$(document).ready(function() {
   $("img.hascaption").each(function() {
      $(this).wrap('<div class="figure"></div>')
      .after('<p class="caption">'+$(this).attr("title")+'</p>')
      .removeAttr('title');
   });
   $(".figure").width($(this).find('img').width());
      
   $(".figure").mouseenter(function(){
      $(this).find('.caption').slideToggle();
   }).mouseleave(function(){
      $(this).find('.caption').slideToggle();
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      width: 500px;
      margin: 0 auto; }
   .figure {
      position: relative; }
   .figure p.caption {
      display: none;
      position: absolute;
      bottom: 0px;
      left: 0px;
      width: 94%;
      margin: 0;
      padding: 5px 3%;
      background-color: #555;
      color: #fff;
      font-weight: bold; }
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   <h1>Simple, Stylish and Swappable Image Captions</h1>
   <p>The example below uses a simple image tag and title attribute to create an easy, semantic image captioning system with the help of jQuery (and some CSS to make things prettier).</p>
   <p>Mouse over the image below to view its corresponding caption!</p>
   <p><a href="http://www.cssnewbie.com/how-to-create-simple-stylish-and-swappable-image-captions/">You can view the original article here.</a></p>

   <img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3314/3314211481_4e00a1f471.jpg" width="500" height="250" class="hascaption" title="Mentions of 'Martha Stewart' (red) versus 'Darfur' (blue) from 2004 - 2009 in the New York Times. Visualization by Jer Thorp (blprnt_van)." />
   
   <p><strong>Update:</strong> This code has been modified slightly from the original to work in IE7.</p>
   
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