Why do my pictures/captions disappear in preview?

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  climbinggreenwood · Member · Feb 7, 2013 at 10:04 pm

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  I am using Chunk. I upload pictures from my computer, add a caption, and insert into my post. All looks well until I hit preview and then I get gobbly gook. My pictures disappear, my captions have code in them. They look like this:

  [odd rectangular box][citation] ” src=”http://climbinggreenwood.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/gen_ex-1880-census-greewood1.jpg?w=580″ width=”580″ height=”60″ /> [caption]
  [citation]

  — when I want them to show a picture, the caption, a space line “—-” and the citation.

  Sometimes, I don’t even get the gobble gook and I just get a small white box.

  I am too afraid to publish — i don’t wan’t the gobbly gook to represent my work — so this is all on my drafting pages.

  I have dumped a bunch of cookies.

  Is there an easy fix for this?
  Thanks for your time and help, Leslie

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  raincoaster · Member · Feb 7, 2013 at 10:21 pm

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  I’m not at all sure you can include citation code in a caption. What happens when you try it without?

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  climbinggreenwood · Member · Feb 7, 2013 at 10:42 pm

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  the citation isn’t a code. It is just a description of the image. Ie. 1880 U.S. census. Adams, MA. Edward Greenwood household.

  In my earlier post I edited out all my words and summarized them inside brackets [ ]. If you would like, I can post it as it looks to me.

  Thanks for your help.

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  climbinggreenwood · Member · Feb 8, 2013 at 8:59 pm

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  Turns out the trouble was in my captions. Since I included a line break, WordPress interpreted that as code and my images broke.

  Thanks raincoaster, wish I knew enough about coding to understand your message the first time.