Title: Empty captions
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Empty captions

 *  [j-rambo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/j-rambo/)
 * (@j-rambo)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/empty-captions/)
 * My client has a slider where some slides have captions and some don’t. In this
   case, the empty captions showed up as white boxes. Being an empty strong elements
   with padding and a background color.
 * This has been fixed by replacing:
 * **
    <?php echo $slide[‘image’][‘caption’] ?>
 * with this:
 * <?php
    $theCaption = $slide[‘image’][‘caption’]; if ( !$theCaption == “” ) { 
   echo “**“; echo $theCaption; echo ““; } ?>
 * In views/ssp_skins/default/slider.php
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 * Last activity: [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/empty-captions/)
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