Title: Caption alignment help
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Caption alignment help

 *  Resolved [menzy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/menzy/)
 * (@menzy)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/caption-alignment-help/)
 * Hi Guys
 * Im trying to get my captions to appear in the center of my images. I currently
   have them appearing over the image at the bottom but for the life of me I cannot
   get them to center as well.
 * Here is a post with an image with the captions on the left:
 * [http://www.almenzel.com/?p=856](http://www.almenzel.com/?p=856)
 * and here is the CSS I added to my CSS section to get it to work:
 *     ```
       .wp-caption {
       	border: none;
       	text-align: center;
       	background: none;
       	padding: 5px;
       	margin: 10px;
       	position: relative;
       }
   
       .wp-caption img {
       	margin: 0;
       	padding: 0;
       	border: 0 none;
       }
   
       .wp-caption p.wp-caption-text {
       	background: url("images/bg-blacktrans50.png") repeat scroll 0 0 transparent;
       	color: #FFFFFF;
       	font-size: 11px;
       	font-style: italic;
       	margin: 10px;
       	padding: 5px;
       	position: absolute;
       	bottom: 1em;
       	left: 0;
       	-moz-border-radius: 8px;
       	-khtml-border-radius: 8px;
       	-webkit-border-radius: 8px;
       	border-radius: 8px;
       }
       ```
   
 * Any help will be much appreciated!

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 *  [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/)
 * (@wpyogi)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/caption-alignment-help/#post-3231821)
 * Because you are using absolute position on them, you’ll need to set the location
   using the “left” attribute. Try
 *     ```
       left: 150px;
       ```
   
 * in the last section of CSS above.
 *  Thread Starter [menzy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/menzy/)
 * (@menzy)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/caption-alignment-help/#post-3231822)
 * is there a way to center instead of left:150px; because i have all different 
   sized images?
 *  Thread Starter [menzy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/menzy/)
 * (@menzy)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/caption-alignment-help/#post-3231823)
 * or what needs to change to not use the “absolute” position?
 *  [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/)
 * (@wpyogi)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/caption-alignment-help/#post-3231824)
 * No, not with absolute positioning. Though you could try using percentage instead
   of px for the left — not sure if that will work but test it out. Or you could
   get rid of absolute position and use negative top margins and auto side margins(
   to center) instead to move the caption on top of the image.
 *  [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/)
 * (@wpyogi)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/caption-alignment-help/#post-3231825)
 * BTW, where did you get that theme?
 *  Thread Starter [menzy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/menzy/)
 * (@menzy)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/caption-alignment-help/#post-3231826)
 * I have tried the following but it leaves a big space under the photo’s where 
   the caption would normally be…
 *     ```
       position: relative;
       	left: auto;
       	right: auto;
       	top: -20px;
       ```
   
 * the Theme is “Hong Kong Night Theme”
 *  [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/)
 * (@wpyogi)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/caption-alignment-help/#post-3231827)
 * This is what I meant:
 *     ```
       margin: -50px auto 60px;
       ```
   
 * You’ll have to experiment some more with it.
 * But FWIW, that theme looks problematic:
    [http://www.themegrade.com/hong-kong-night-theme/](http://www.themegrade.com/hong-kong-night-theme/)
 * And [this site](http://wordpressthemesbase.com/detail/451.html) is even worse—
   it’s in violation of the WP trademark policy.
 * In any case, the theme does not appear to be in keeping with the WP GPL license
   and open source policy/philosophy – which is a problem in terms of being supported
   here.
 * This article may be helpful:
    [http://www.chipbennett.net/2010/12/10/only-download-wordpress-themes-from-trusted-sources/](http://www.chipbennett.net/2010/12/10/only-download-wordpress-themes-from-trusted-sources/)
 *  Thread Starter [menzy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/menzy/)
 * (@menzy)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/caption-alignment-help/#post-3231828)
 * Hi
 * Thanks for your help! I got it to look roughly how I want it to.
 * I have found issues with this theme and have fixed most of the issues with help
   from these support pages.
 * Thanks for the links to the articles. I will have a good read.

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