Captioned images overflow sidebar

[obenland]

Because captions get a hardcoded pixel width, they almost always overflow the sidebar. Fixing this would require changing the core shortcode to accept inline styles

[melchoyce]

Should we open a core ticket for this?

[obenland]

Maybe. I don't know, could be part of this plugin too

[melchoyce]

I feel like we don't have this problem in galleries, so it might be the plugin, not core.

[obenland]

I don't think galleries use the shortcode though, do they? I mean the easiest way to mitigate it would be to make the short code more flexible so that we can pass our own styles and override the fixed width.

[melchoyce]

I don't think galleries use the shortcode though, do they?

¯_(ツ)_/¯

I mean the easiest way to mitigate it would be to make the short code more flexible so that we can pass our own styles and override the fixed width.

Sounds good to me 👍

[obenland]

I tested the caption shortcode with all twenty themes, the overflow issue is only present in Twenty Ten (which I had active when I noticed).
Twenty Ten sets a pixel max-wdith with an !important flag.
Twenty Sixteen doesn't clear floats in widgets, which leads to broken layouts when inserting a floated image. Images are floated left by default.