diff --git a/inst/rmarkdown/templates/radix_article/resources/distill.html b/inst/rmarkdown/templates/radix_article/resources/distill.html
index 64a9b3b8..9794eee8 100644
--- a/inst/rmarkdown/templates/radix_article/resources/distill.html
+++ b/inst/rmarkdown/templates/radix_article/resources/distill.html
@@ -831,8 +831,8 @@
   $('tr.header').parent('thead').parent('table').addClass('pandoc-table');
   $('.kable-table').children('table').addClass('pandoc-table');
 
-  // add figcaption style to pandoc-table captions
-  $('.pandoc-table>caption').addClass("figcaption");
+  // add figcaption style to table captions
+  $('caption').parent('table').addClass("figcaption");
 
   // initialize posts list
   if (window.init_posts_list)