Captions under pictures

rememberthepoor · Member · Mar 27, 2009 at 7:48 pm
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I am trying to insert a photo into my blog site. I have entered a caption in the appropriate area then in the description I have entered some information that I would like others to be able to read but it does not show up when I post it. Is there any way to have the description viewed or do I need to just put all information into the caption? If so can I enter a break into the caption line? Thank you
Teresa

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thesacredpath · Member · Mar 27, 2009 at 11:39 pm
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Captions are meant for a short description rather than a bunch of text and when I’ve tried adding breaks or other HTML into the caption area, it has been ignored or stripped out, so my experience says that you cannot add breaks or set up paragraphs.
admirj20 · Member · Mar 27, 2009 at 11:41 pm
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Exactly, I believe there is a character limit on captions with no breaks allowed.
rememberthepoor · Member · Mar 28, 2009 at 12:20 am
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Is there any way for people to view the description once I post the picture? Right now I have things under the description but it does not appear for people to view once i post it.
1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Mar 28, 2009 at 1:17 am
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rememberthepoor ~~ wave to Teresa:
I’m not quite understanding what you are asking.
Would you like to open a new page with more information about a picture that would have more information about that picture?
rememberthepoor · Member · Mar 29, 2009 at 10:51 am
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Ok let me try to ask it a different way.
I am uploading a picture to our site for example I have a picture of a chicken under the picture I would like the word “Chicken” then under the word chicken in the description box on the edit page I have written how much the chicken cost and how many eggs it will provide for people. Once I click the preview page the only text I am able to view is the word “Chicken”
So I am loosing the Descriptions. How can I make the descriptions viewable from the site?
panaghiotisadam · Member · Mar 29, 2009 at 10:55 am
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https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/pictures-9?replies=12#post-323544
1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Mar 29, 2009 at 1:40 pm
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rememberthepoor,
The description box is there because search engines look at that, and your readers won’t see what you write there unless they look at the source code for your page.
Just write everything you want in the “caption” box. It’s limiting because the caption feature here won’t allow you to have line breaks or other formatting, though the text will wrap.
To have more control over what the picture and caption look like, you should use a table. Something like this:
```
<table style="border:1px solid #cdcdcd;background-color:#eeeeee;padding:2px;" border="0">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>IMAGE_CODE_HERE</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>CAPTION_HERE</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
```
(thanks to panos for the code ≥^,^≤)
educlaytion · Member · Apr 28, 2009 at 7:07 pm
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Tess:

You weren’t trying to help me, but you really did. Thanks so much for this simple table.
educlaytion · Member · Apr 28, 2009 at 7:15 pm
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Is it possible to to have the text wrapped around a table and caption like the one given here?
panaghiotisadam · Member · Apr 28, 2009 at 7:58 pm
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Yes, by adding this after “table”:
align="left"
and this within “style”:
margin-right:1.4em;
educlaytion · Member · Apr 28, 2009 at 8:51 pm
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Thanks Panos! It’s like I did a cool magic trick but don’t know how. As long as it works.

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