inconsistent font size

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  kantelier · Member · Dec 17, 2011 at 11:41 am

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  When using [caption align="alignleft" ...] the text next to the image appears in a larger font size. It happens both in FireFox 8.0 and IE 8.0. An aligned image without a caption is OK. I’m using the pool theme
  Blog url: http://kantelier.wordpress.com/

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Dec 17, 2011 at 11:01 pm

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  All of the font sizes in your captions seem to be consistant.

  Can you please point out two specifically inconsistant examples?

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  kantelier · Member · Dec 19, 2011 at 2:14 pm

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  The captions are ok. It is the first line of the normal text flowing around the images that gets a bigger font size. Compare the red rectangles in the screen shot snippet: http://kantelier.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/inconsistent-fonts.jpg

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Dec 19, 2011 at 11:09 pm

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  Ah, now that I can see.

  It looks like the top and bottom paragraphs are inheriting the style of the image in a sense. They’re being considered part of the same entity.

  Do you have any better luck if you drop that text below the images?

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  kantelier · Member · Dec 20, 2011 at 2:13 pm

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  Yes. see for example http://kantelier.wordpress.com/2011/02/27/travel-light/

  It also helps to have an empty line after the [/caption] in the html editor. I did not yet publish such an article. But then the text is not aligned with the top of the image. At least not with a left aligned captioned image, a right aligned captioned image does align text after an empty line with the top of the image. Perhaps that is a hint.

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Dec 20, 2011 at 8:32 pm

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  Yeah, that’s the issue with image alignment. Images are aligned relative to text, so depending on how you position them, the text may inherit some of the caption’s qualities or visa versa.

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  kantelier · Member · Dec 25, 2011 at 11:31 am

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  We are drifting away from the original subject. Why does the font size change with the first line after the a left aligned caption?

  Another subtle observation: if the content starts with a left aligned image, there is no space between the imag and the tags above, while there is some space otherwise.

  work arround: start the content with a   (or some text) and put an empty line after each [/caption] The nbsp creates a bit too much space between the content and tags, but that is less ugly than the inconstistent font sizes and misalignments.

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  kantelier · Member · Dec 25, 2011 at 3:29 pm

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  better work around on https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/captions-and-inconstitent-font-size-or-alignment?replies=3#post-776809