title: can <figure> tag in html5 be used for background images?
body: <p>I started reading upon html5 and I am trying to work on a project so that I can see how things work. I know that the tag can be use like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;figure id="car"&gt;
     &lt;img src="img/car.jpg" alt="the car"&gt;
     &lt;p&gt;The car&lt;/p&gt;
  &lt;/figure&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Though I need to have 6 of those figures, as such I want to use sprites and (unless I dont know something important) sprites only work if i add the image width css (background-image). So what I would do is something like:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;figure id="car"&gt;
     &lt;pre&gt;&lt;/pre&gt; &lt;!-- add image from css --&gt;
     &lt;p&gt;The car&lt;/p&gt;
  &lt;/figure&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>can I use figure tag like that?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks a lot</p>