Title: caption shortcode inserts blank paragraph
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# caption shortcode inserts blank paragraph

 *  Resolved [dannyman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dannyman/)
 * (@dannyman)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/caption-shortcode-inserts-blank-paragraph/)
 * Hello,
 * I am setting up a new blog, no plugins yet. I inserted a photo in to a post, 
   align right, with a caption. When I view the post in The zen light theme or the
   default theme I get a blank paragraph rendered above the image. Why is that and
   how can I change that?
 * See: [http://www.the99ers.net/2010/09/hello/](http://www.the99ers.net/2010/09/hello/)
 * The relevant code reads:
 * `<p><div id="attachment_19"`
 * Basically, I am pretty sure I want to drop the outer P and just have the DIV 
   float where it needs to go. What’s up? Thanks!
 * Sincerely,
    -danny

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 *  Thread Starter [dannyman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dannyman/)
 * (@dannyman)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/caption-shortcode-inserts-blank-paragraph/#post-1654165)
 * Short answer is something got trimmed from the markup inserted in to the post.
   I switched to the HTML editor, deleted and reinserted the shortcode, and everything
   looked fine.

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 * [<p>](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/p/)
 * [caption](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/caption/)
 * [image](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/image/)
 * [shortcode](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/shortcode/)

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