Title: image widget caption issue
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# image widget caption issue

 *  [rpsellers](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rpsellers/)
 * (@rpsellers)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-widget-caption-issue/)
 * I’ve got an issue using the image widget in the sidebar. With my child theme 
   based on twenty eleven I’ve noticed that any caption below an image in the sidebar
   has a very large space to the right of the text. (I’m working locally so don’t
   have a link but every instance I see has essentially the same margin and padding
   for image captions using this widget, such as [this picture.](http://s.wordpress.org/extend/plugins/image-widget/screenshot-3.png?r=623072)
   I’ve found the css for modifying both the title and caption text in the css but
   for the life of me cannot find the call up to change the text alignment, padding
   or margins for the caption in the sidebar widget image.
 * Any ideas on where to look / what to try?
 * Thanks in advance!

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 *  [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/)
 * (@wpyogi)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-widget-caption-issue/#post-3179289)
 * What is the CSS you found for that area? Be sure to use the code button when 
   posting code here — or if it’s a lot, use the [pastebin](http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome#Posting_Code).
 * The best way to work with CSS is using Firebug to locate and test changes – and
   then make them in the CSS file.
 *  [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/)
 * (@alchymyth)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-widget-caption-issue/#post-3179291)
 * it seems that your ‘modern tribe’ logo image is too wide; the text width looks
   ok.
 * to see that, temporarily, try to add to style.css:
 * `#secondary { overflow: hidden; }`
 * also, the widget simply adds a max width to the image, and does not replicate
   the ‘normal’ image with caption html/css structure.
 * you will see more problems, when you narrow the browser screen as the image is
   not flexible/responsive.
 * possibly look for a different image widget plugin.
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-widget-caption-issue/#post-3179295)
 * [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-image-caption-alignment-margin-and-padding?replies=1](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-image-caption-alignment-margin-and-padding?replies=1)

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## Tags

 * [alignment](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/alignment/)
 * [caption](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/caption/)
 * [margin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/margin/)
 * [padding](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/padding/)

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 * Last reply from: [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/image-widget-caption-issue/#post-3179295)
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