Cannot create hard carriage return in Caption Text

[art-teacher]

I have gone through a million posts looking for text breaks in the "Caption" feature. I cannot find it in the Stylesheet to simply place a <br>. I am relying on the Captions for a clean and minimalist look. Although I realize I can use the text option - the padding and other characteristics do not give me the design I am interested in.

I simply want to create a caption for images that use one line per word. A carriage return in the editor does not do this. Under Theme > Change Fonts, it offers everything EXCEPT a new line of text = kerning but no leading! 

PLEASE help. As of now - only lines of text that are too long to fit in the caption will create a carriage return. ANY information is beyond appreciative as I have spent way too much time on this one area. 

THANK YOU in advance!

[bobafett]

@art-teacher certain themes allow direct html input in the caption box.  Insert <p>abcd<br>stpfsdghutre</p> and see if that works 

[PaulMathews]

@art-teacher To follow up on @bobafett's comment, I think all of the responsive themes allow for html in the caption textbox. You can additionally use css classes or inline css for styling. You can use the paragraph tag to enclose your caption text as bobafett suggests but it's not necessary and the use of the paragraph tag can introduce paragraph styling (padding, margins) which you may not want (or may have to reverse out with some inline css). Having no enclosing tags is okay within the caption textbox:

Caption first line<br>
Caption second line<br>
Caption third line

To generate site-wide css for image captions, you should be able to use the classes ".wsite-image div, .wsite-caption" although I can't guarantee that these apply to all themes:

.wsite-image div, .wsite-caption {
[add css here]
}

But line breaks have to be added directly in the caption textbox as indicated earlier.