Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ Figure references all wrong

[theo moore]

Can anybody figure out what's going on? Typically, you would create a figure like so,

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\begin{figure}
\label{blah}
\end{figure}

Then call it afterwards, like,

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See \ref{blah}

That's fine. I've never had a problem with that. Until now, that is. In my current (set of) documents, whenever I reference a figure label, instead of printing out the correct label, it's printing out the section number for which the figure is in!

I can't figure out what's wrong. Everything compiles well. The references to sections, subsections and equations work fine!

Any help?

[Keta]

The problem there is that you must put the label after a caption, so the label can reference to the figure (it references to the caption, actually). See also here: http://www.latex-community.org/forum/vi ... php?t=3659

See if the following works:

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\begin{figure}
Text, images\dots inside the figure
\caption{the caption}
\label{blah}
\end{figure}

[theo moore]

The problem there is that you must put the label after a caption, so the label can reference to the figure (it references to the caption, actually).

I've been using LaTeX for something like 5 years now, but never knew that. That simply blows my mind. I always thought it was arbitrary -- how I ever avoided the problem until now is a mystery.

[moameen]

I had the same problem and would have never figured that out!!!

[thanh1985]

I have some problem when I'm writing my thesis and paper. I try to arrange \label{} right after \caption{}, that means they are in a sequence. It worked for me. Try!

[sreenulatex]

I also faced the same problem. The label should be after the caption. After putting this, my problem is solved.