Inconsistent treatment of captions in revealjs

[bweatherson]

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Bug description

When outputting to revealjs, Quarto is formatting captions differently depending on whether images are inside or outside column divs.

Steps to reproduce

---
title: "Figure Caption Test"
format: revealjs
---

## Slide with Column Image

::: {.column width="100%"}
![Image in column](https://placehold.co/400){width="50%"}
:::

## Slide with Standalone Image

![Image outside column](https://placehold.co/400){width="50%"}

Actual behavior

The caption "Image in column" appears in the HTML wrapped inside <figcaption>.

The caption "Image outside column" appears in the HTML inside <p class="caption">.

Expected behavior

Either one of these formats seems fine, but they should be the same to make it easy for CSS to change all captions at once.

Your environment

IDE: Positron 2025.12.2 build 5
OS: MacOS Tahoe 26.2

Quarto check output

Quarto 1.8.25
[✓] Checking environment information...
Quarto cache location: /Users/weath/Library/Caches/quarto
[✓] Checking versions of quarto binary dependencies...
Pandoc version 3.6.3: OK
Dart Sass version 1.87.0: OK
Deno version 2.3.1: OK
Typst version 0.13.0: OK
[✓] Checking versions of quarto dependencies......OK
[✓] Checking Quarto installation......OK
Version: 1.8.25
Path: /Applications/quarto/bin

[✓] Checking tools....................OK
TinyTeX: v2024.10
Chromium: (not installed)

[✓] Checking LaTeX....................OK
Using: TinyTex
Path: /Users/weath/Library/TinyTeX/bin/universal-darwin
Version: 2024

[✓] Checking Chrome Headless....................OK
Using: Chrome found on system
Path: /Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome
Source: MacOS known location

[✓] Checking basic markdown render....OK

[✓] Checking Python 3 installation....OK
Version: 3.14.2
Path: /usr/local/bin/python3
Jupyter: (None)

  Jupyter is not available in this Python installation.
  Install with python3 -m pip install jupyter

[✓] Checking R installation...........OK
Version: 4.5.2
Path: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources
LibPaths:
- /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.5-arm64/Resources/library
knitr: 1.50
rmarkdown: 2.29

[✓] Checking Knitr engine render......OK