Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ gap between the figure and caption

[dhan_latex]

why there is a gap between the figure and caption?

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\begin{figure}[h!]
  \centering
     \includegraphics[width=5.1in,height=2.2in]{./figures/psr.jpg}\\
\caption{Current Status Program Register(CPSR)}
\end{figure}

[svend_tveskaeg]

Give us a MWE to work with and $P_\textup{help} \geq 0$.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

why there is a gap between the figure and caption?

Because the caption text should not touch the figure. There's a default gap between the figure and the caption (\abovecaptionskip, 10pt), for similar reasons there's a gap between text lines, otherwise the layout would be cramped.

Perhaps do you mean the gap is too big? You could change the skip I mentioned above. It may depend on your class (standard or KOMA-Script class), packages (caption package used?) and settings. That's why Svend already asked for a minimal working example, which allows to verify a problem. The small code snipped doesnt't show a problem (except that h! is not a good choice as placement option).

Stefan