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On a Tumblr Post, if they are Image posts, the caption is placed below the Image.

I can´t find how to do it on a text posts, and thus we are forced to place an italic paragraph below the image.

i.e. http://news.gain.org/post/23115584298/adaptation-is-essential-global-decision-makers

Any ideas?

I´ve the impression I have to edit the HTML of the Theme, but I can´t find where.


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go to http://www.tumblr.com/customize and press “Edit HTML”

here is tumblr wiki for photo posts

P.S. Tumblr has no opportunity to add a special caption for images in text posts. For more flexibility styling you can add paragraph with custom class (e.g. .photo-caption) and control it with css code like this:

.photo-caption {
    font-style: italic;
    /* or some other decoration, 
       which will be applied for all image-caption
       in all your posts */

and paste it in 'Custom CSS' field on the same customize page

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I can't see why Tumblr would not have a default Image caption style... Thanks!!! –  brunosan May 17 '12 at 13:39
Easy: in theory text posts are not intended to get images in them: that's what photo posts are for. Yeah, it's a lot less flexible than they make it out to be. –  Circeus May 20 '12 at 6:27

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