Title: Caption HTML Isn’t Being Generated
Last modified: August 19, 2016
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# Caption HTML Isn’t Being Generated
* [kvcrawford](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kvcrawford/)
* (@kvcrawford)
* [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/caption-html-isnt-being-generated/)
* Take a look here: [http://comps.gunnjerkens.com/oas/wp/2009/10/](http://comps.gunnjerkens.com/oas/wp/2009/10/)
* When I edit my posts in the WYSIWYG post editor, and I add an image with a caption,
it shows up nicely in the WYSIWYG–with the nice-looking default formatting. When
viewing it in HTML mode (w/o WYSIWYG), I see the [caption] tag.
* However, when viewing the actual post, none of the HTML for the caption is there.
I tried reverting to the default theme, and it still didn’t show up. I also tried
disabling the “Raw HTML” plugin that I use, as well as all other plugins, and
it still didn’t work. Any help? 🙁
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* [Clayton James](https://wordpress.org/support/users/claytonjames/)
* (@claytonjames)
* [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/caption-html-isnt-being-generated/#post-1231258)
* A quick look at your css, and I don’t think I saw any of the wordpress generated
classes that let a theme take advantage of the image captions and alignments
generated by wordpress. I may have missed it, but I don’t think I saw it anywhere.
Here is the information about the classes that need to be present in a themes
style sheet for wp captions and borders to work properly.
* [http://codex.wordpress.org/CSS#WordPress_Generated_Classes](http://codex.wordpress.org/CSS#WordPress_Generated_Classes)
* [d_james](https://wordpress.org/support/users/d_james/)
* (@d_james)
* [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/caption-html-isnt-being-generated/#post-1231498)
* I’m experiencing exactly the same problem as **kvcrawford**.
* The WYSIWYG editor wraps the ![]()
tag in [caption] tags, like this:
* `[caption id="attachment_141" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="caption
text"]
[/caption]`
* But the ![]()
tag doesn’t appear in the markup on the front-end until I remove
the [caption] delimiters.
* I added the css needed for the WordPress Generated Classes to my style.css file.
No luck. It seems to me like you’re suggesting that the markup doesn’t appear
unless the necessary css is detected by WordPress?
* If that’s not the case then at the very least the HTML should be there, right?
I’m kind of a WP noob.
* [d_james](https://wordpress.org/support/users/d_james/)
* (@d_james)
* [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/caption-html-isnt-being-generated/#post-1231499)
* Oh by the way here’s a sample page where it’s not working for me:
* [http://www.summitcove.com/area-info/](http://www.summitcove.com/area-info/)
* The first image is the only one on the page because I removed the [caption] tags
that were around it.
* [Clayton James](https://wordpress.org/support/users/claytonjames/)
* (@claytonjames)
* [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/caption-html-isnt-being-generated/#post-1231500)
* My knee-jerk reaction is to say that I think the border currently surrounding
your image is being defined by this;
* > .entry img {
> /* background:#324259; border:1px solid #2B394D; padding:3px;
> position:relative; */ border: 1px solid #404040; -moz-border-radius: 5px; -
> webkit-border-radius: 5px; padding: 8px; }
* ….rather than by .wp-caption ?
* It’s really just a pretty poor guess on my part.
* I used firebug to alter your image to what I believe it _should_ look like in
the source (roughly) and pasted it back into firebug;
* `
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