Caption

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  dewnestry · Member · Jun 24, 2011 at 8:34 am

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  I tried to add a caption to a picture in a post, and while editing it looked like that:
  http://dewnestry.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/glasshalfyada.png
  Then, after I looked at the preview of the post, it looked like that:
  http://dewnestry.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/glasshalfyada2.png

  I know I can just use the first picture, but I prefer to use the original and add a caption.
  How do I fix this?

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  airodyssey · Member · Jun 24, 2011 at 2:22 pm

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  Hi. Captions look differently depending on themes and unfortunately, the visual editor does not always reflect every theme’s particular ways.

  If another volunteer has a more elaborate explanation, please be my guest :-)

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Jun 24, 2011 at 2:29 pm

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  I wonder if you can re-style how a caption looks with CSS? (the border and the background color and size)

  IMO captions are an incomplete project here on wp.com: one can’t even align them as needed, one can’t add a link to credit the photographer, one can’t even make a word bold, italic, or even add a color!

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  dewnestry · Member · Jun 24, 2011 at 2:39 pm

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  That’s annoying :/
  I think I’ve seen a few captions like the first picture… If someone faced the same problem/knows how to correct this using CSS I’d appreciate it.
  But maybe my theme just won’t allow it :/

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  timethief · Member · Jun 24, 2011 at 3:55 pm

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  @dewnestry
  I’m using Firefox 5 and the caption display is normal as in the first screenshot above. That’s why I think this may be a browser issue.

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  dewnestry · Member · Jun 24, 2011 at 6:06 pm

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  I’m using FF5.
  If you looked at the post then you should have seen the picture above, because I used it – I didn’t use a caption.
  Thanks anyway, though ^^

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  timethief · Member · Jun 24, 2011 at 6:23 pm

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  I did visit the blog and I do see a caption on the image in this post.
  post > http://dewnestry.wordpress.com/2011/06/24/depression-over-euphoria/
  image > http://dewnestry.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/glasshalfyada.png?w=427&h=677

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  dewnestry · Member · Jun 24, 2011 at 6:28 pm

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  It looks like a caption, but it’s part of the picture.
  I wanted to use actual caption.

  I know it doesn’t matter much now, but it’s more convenient for me to just use a caption, and not upload a picture with the text built in…