How to align caption underneath image

Question

I have 9 images in total and three on each row, I have managed to add a caption for one of my images, but failed to do so for the other ones as it just centers everything underneath and not aligned text to rows per image.

<figure>
<center>
<img src='images/album1.jpg' alt='missing' />
<figcaption>Album name goes here
<br>Year goes here
<br>artist name goes here</figcaption>

<img src='images/album2.jpg' alt='missing' />
<figcaption>Album name goes here
<br>Year goes here
<br>artist name goes here</figcaption>

<img src='images/album2.jpg' alt='missing' />
<figcaption>Album name goes here
<br>Year goes here
<br>artist name goes here</figcaption>
</figure><center>

And so on.

Answer 1

I would set up the code this way:

<figure>
    <img src='http://placehold.it/200x200' alt='missing' />
    <figcaption>Album name goes here
        <br>Year goes here
        <br>artist name goes here</figcaption>
</figure>

and apply the following CSS:

figure {
    display: inline-block;
    border: 1px dotted gray;
    margin: 20px; /* adjust as needed */
}
figure img {
    vertical-align: top;
}
figure figcaption {
    border: 1px dotted blue;
    text-align: center;
}

Because each figure is an inline-block, you can basically repeat the unit three times per row, either adding a <br> after the every third one, or wrapping three in a block element, or using a CSS3 nth-of-type(3n) selector to add a line break or similar.

Use text-align: center on figcaption to align the test to the center.

See demo at: http://jsfiddle.net/audetwebdesign/4njG8/

The results look like this (for a wide enough screen):