Chaging the font size of figure caption

Question

I am using the command usepackage[font=footnotesize]{caption} in order to change the font size of the caption of my figures. This works fine if the caption goes over only one line. But if a caption is very long and goes over two lines, the font size of the second line remains unchanged. How can I fix this?
documentclass[11pt,letterpaper,colorlinks=true,linkcolor=blue,citecolor=blue,urlcolor=blue]{scrartcl}
usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
usepackage{lmodern}
usepackage[english]{babel}
usepackage{hyperref}
usepackage{graphicx} 
usepackage[font=footnotesize]{caption}
begin{document}
begin{equation} label{a}
A
end{equation}
begin{table}   
centering   
begin{tabular}{|p{0.9linewidth}|}     
hline A      hline  
end{tabular}   
caption{This text here is in footnotesize as required. Now comes a reference hyperref[a]{(ref*{a})}}. Why is this text and the reference hyperref[a]{(ref*{a})} large? And why does LaTeX make the linebreak before the dot?
end{table} 
end{document}

Zarko · Accepted Answer

You compare caption content with document text, i.e. Your caption is finished immediately after command hyperref[a]{(ref*{a})}. Dot was already out of caption.
See:
documentclass[11pt,letterpaper,
               colorlinks=true,linkcolor=blue,citecolor=blue,
               urlcolor=blue]{scrartcl}
usepackage{lmodern}
usepackage[english]{babel}
usepackage[font=footnotesize]{caption}
usepackage{hyperref}

usepackage{lipsum}

begin{document}
begin{equation} label{a}
A
end{equation}

begin{table}[h]
centering
begin{tabular}{|p{0.9linewidth}|}
hline A      hline
end{tabular}
caption{This text here is in texttt{footnotesize} as required. Now comes a reference hyperref[a]{(ref*{a})}% <--- here was end of caption!!!
. Why is this text and the reference large? Because this part of text was not included in caption!}
    end{table}
lipsum[66]
end{document}

As you can see, hyperref[a]{(ref*{a})} doesn't change caption text font size.

Chaging the font size of figure caption

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