Caption shortcode adds inline width style

[philbuchanan]

When using the caption shortcode WordPress adds an inline width style by default. Ideally this should not be set so theme developers can set widths in their stylesheets.

[dd32]

See #14380 for the history of the width style, and reasoning for still including the width in the new html5 support branch.

[philbuchanan]

I understand the desire to force the caption to wrap, but isn't this something that should be done by theme developers? As it stands, it's very difficult to override this inline style in a themes stylesheet.

[nacin]

Replying to philbuchanan:

I understand the desire to force the caption to wrap, but isn't this something that should be done by theme developers? As it stands, it's very difficult to override this inline style in a themes stylesheet.

It's also very difficult to force a caption to wrap in a theme without this inline style, since an image's width is determined by the user's actions, not the theme specifications.

Every time I look at this, I feel like despite having dedicated HTML elements (figure and figcaption), HTML itself is letting us down here. If someone can come up with a sane way to do this, from the perspective of the user, the theme developer, and the core developer, then I'm all ears.

[miqrogroove]

No traction.

[mor10]

A new reason to get rid of the inline style, or at the very least allow theme authors to filter it out easily:

When using CSS Grid for layouts, the inline rule forces the cell holding the element to retain the full width of the inline rule. This cannot be overridden using regular CSS rules and breaks layouts using CSS Grid. As such this non-standard inclusion actively breaks modern layout modules and techniques.