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From: Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>
Subject: Re: get rid of empty caption on html export?
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 17:43:29 -0400
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Matt Price <moptop99@gmail.com> wrote:

>  I have asimpl table in an org document which, when i export to HTML,
> is for some reason accompanied by an empty <caption></caption> tag.=C2=A0
> My wordpress theme causes the caption to take up valuable space...=C2=A0 =
is
> there any way to surpress the caption tag from being created on
> export?=C2=A0 If not, maybe osmeone has a css trick that will stop the
> caption tag from taking up vertical space on the screen if there's
> nothing inside it?=C2=A0

org-html.el says:

,----
|       ;; Since the output of HTML table formatter can also be used in
|       ;; DocBook document, we want to always include the caption to make
|       ;; DocBook XML file valid.
|       (push (format "<caption>%s</caption>" (or caption "")) html)
`----

which seems a bit smelly to me, but it explains the empty caption.
Sorry, can't help with CSS.

Nick