| DocBook: The Definitive Guide 2.0.17 (Alpha)

# informalfigure

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informalfigure — A untitled figure

## Synopsis

### Content Model

    informalfigure ::=
    (blockinfo?,
     (literallayout|programlisting|programlistingco|screen|screenco|
      screenshot|synopsis|cmdsynopsis|funcsynopsis|classsynopsis|
      fieldsynopsis|constructorsynopsis|destructorsynopsis|
      methodsynopsis|address|blockquote|graphic|graphicco|mediaobject|
      mediaobjectco|informalequation|informalexample|informalfigure|
      informaltable|indexterm|beginpage|link|olink|ulink)+)

### Attributes

Common attributes

Name | Type | Default
floatstyle | CDATA | None
float | CDATA | "0"
pgwide | CDATA | None
label | CDATA | None

## Description

An `InformalFigure` is a figure without a title. Figures often contain `Graphic`s, or other large display elements.

### Processing expectations

Formatted as a displayed block.

### Note

It is an error to supply a `title` in the `blockinfo` for an informal figure.

### Parents

These elements contain informalfigure: `answer`, `appendix`, `article`, `bibliodiv`, `bibliography`, `blockquote`, `callout`, `caution`, `chapter`, `constraintdef`, `example`, `figure`, `footnote`, `glossary`, `glossdef`, `glossdiv`, `important`, `index`, `indexdiv`, `informalexample`, `informalfigure`, `itemizedlist`, `listitem`, `msgexplan`, `msgtext`, `note`, `orderedlist`, `para`, `partintro`, `preface`, `procedure`, `qandadiv`, `qandaset`, `question`, `refsect1`, `refsect2`, `refsect3`, `refsection`, `refsynopsisdiv`, `revdescription`, `sect1`, `sect2`, `sect3`, `sect4`, `sect5`, `section`, `setindex`, `sidebar`, `simplesect`, `step`, `taskprerequisites`, `taskrelated`, `tasksummary`, `tip`, `variablelist`, `warning`.

### Children

The following elements occur in informalfigure: `address`, `beginpage`, `blockinfo`, `blockquote`, `classsynopsis`, `cmdsynopsis`, `constructorsynopsis`, `destructorsynopsis`, `fieldsynopsis`, `funcsynopsis`, `graphic`, `graphicco`, `indexterm`, `informalequation`, `informalexample`, `informalfigure`, `informaltable`, `link`, `literallayout`, `mediaobject`, `mediaobjectco`, `methodsynopsis`, `olink`, `programlisting`, `programlistingco`, `screen`, `screenco`, `screenshot`, `synopsis`, `ulink`.

## Attributes

float

  If `Float` has the value 1 (true), then the processing system is free to move the figure to a convenient location. (Where convenient location may be described in the style sheet or may be application dependent.) A value of 0 (false) indicates that the figure should be placed precisely where it occurs in the flow.

label

  `Label` specifies an identifying string for presentation purposes.

  Generally, an explicit `Label` attribute is used only if the processing system is incapable of generating the label automatically. If present, the `Label` is normative; it will used even if the processing system is capable of automatic labelling.

pgwide

  If `Pgwide` has the value 0 (false), then the `InformalFigure` is rendered in the current text flow (with flow column width). A value of 1 (true) specifies that the figure should be rendered across the full text page.

## See Also

`equation`, `example`, `figure`, `informalequation`, `informalexample`, `informaltable`, `table`.

## Examples

    <!DOCTYPE informalfigure PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN"
              "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd">
    <informalfigure>
    <mediaobject>
    <imageobject>
    <imagedata fileref="figures/watarun.eps" srccredit="Norman Walsh, 1998"/>
    </imageobject>
    <textobject><phrase>Wat Arun</phrase></textobject>
    <caption><para>Wat Arun, Temple of the Dawn, on the Chao Phraya River
    in Bangkok,
    Thailand. In April, 1998, Wat Arun was in the midst of renovation.</para>
    </caption>
    </mediaobject>
    </informalfigure>

Wat Arun, Temple of the Dawn, on the Chao Phraya River in Bangkok, Thailand. In April, 1998, Wat Arun was in the midst of renovation.

informalexample |  | informaltable

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