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CSS - Caption To Fit Image Width
I'm trying to set up a box to hold an image and a caption. I thought it would be really easy, but I'm having huge difficulties...
Here's what I want: A floating box contains my image and caption. It shrinks to fit the image width (which varies depending on the image), and the caption wraps onto new lines if needed. Simple, eh? Well, apparently not... I just can't get my text to wrap. If the line of text is longer than the image, it stretches the whole container. No matter how many workarounds I try! Can someone please tell me how it's done using CSS?! Similar TutorialsHelp, I'm trying to combine two effects I came across. The code works well but I have a problem when the image changes width. The caption box doesn't size accordingly. I tried multiple iterations for the transbox width without success. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Here is the code source: Dropshadow Image Caption Code: <html>
<style type="text/css">
div.image_wrapper img {
background-color: #fff;
border: 1px solid #a9a9a9;
display: block;
margin: -5px 5px 5px -5px;
padding: 4px;
position: relative;
}
div.image_wrapper {
background: url('_images/shadow.gif') no-repeat bottom right;
clear: right;
float: left;
margin: 0 0 0 25px;
padding: 0;
position: relative;
}
.transbox {
margin: 0;
padding: 0px;
background-color: #000;
opacity:0.6;
filter:alpha(opacity=60);
position: absolute;
top: 0;
right: 11px;
width: 95%; /*PROBLEM RIGHT HERE*/
height: 5em;
}
.image_wrapper p {
margin: 0;
padding: 10px;
color: #FFF;
position: absolute;
top: 0;
right: 5px;
font-size: 36px;
font-weight: bold;
font-family:Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
text-shadow: 3px 3px 3px #000;
}
</style>
<body>
<div class="image_wrapper"><img src="_images/_main/HomePageGraphic.png" width="475" height="400" border="0" /><div class="transbox"></div><p>HOME</p></div>
</body>
</html>
I wish to place a small image with a caption by its side in the middle of a div. What would be the better approach, (i)to put the two in a div and use absolute positioning or (ii)to use margins to position the two. Either way seems to work but I am looking for an approach that would be considered correct by a professional web developer. All help would be greatly appreciated. Code: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<style type="text/css">
body
{ text-align: center;
min-width: 1044px;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
font-family: arial;
}
#wrapper
{ position: relative;
text-align: left;
width: 1044px;
height: 100%;
margin: 0px auto;
}
#top-header-block
{ width: 1010px;
height: 170px;
background-color: cyan;
}
#top-header-block img
{ height: auto;
width: auto;
}
#logo
{ float: left;
}
/*------------------------------------------*/
#inner-div
{ height: auto;
width: auto;
position: absolute;
left: 567px;
top: 41px;
}
#inner-div img
{ float: left;
}
#inner-div p
{ float: left;
margin-top: 3px;
margin-left: 5px;
color: #0d2474;
font-family: arial,sans-serif;
font-size: 11px;
font-weight: bold;
}
/*------------Alternative to above-------------*/
#img-B
{ float: left;
margin-left: 315px;
margin-top: 40px;
}
#top-header-block p
{ float: left;
margin-top: 43px;
margin-left: 5px;
color: #0d2474;
font-family: arial,sans-serif;
font-size: 11px;
font-weight: bold;
}
/*------------------------------------------*/
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="top-header-block">
<a href="#">
<img id="logo" src=""
alt="" width="248" height="65"/></a>
<div id="inner-div">
<a href="#">
<img src=""
alt="" width="66" height="20" /></a>
<p>: 0 items</p>
</div>
<!-------------Alternative to above-------------------------------->
<a href="#">
<img id="img-B" src=""
alt="" width="66" height="20" /></a>
<p>: 0 items</p>
<!----------------------------------------------------------------------->
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
I have a header div with a background image - it's basically a pair of hands holding a banner - the arms extending to the sides of the window. I'm trying to work it so that, no matter how wide or thin the window, the arms will always extend to the sides. So when you make it smaller, the image will disappear beyond the viewing window. This happens automatically on the right-hand side, but the image is stopping it on the left. Is there a way to set a min-width, which is smaller then the image itself, so that when the window is shrunk the image starts to disappear on either side until it reaches the min-width? I'm trying to get it so the arms will disappear and stop at the hands. Or can anyone suggest an alternative solution? I tried to do it with background and header image, with the arms on the background, so when the top image moves it looks like the arms move with it. That worked great until I started using a patterned background. Full width: |---------------------------------------| |AAAAAAAAHHH BBBBBBBBBBBBBB HHHAAAAAAAAA| |---------------------------------------| Shrunk width: ------- |------------------------| -------- AAAAAAA |AHHH BBBBBBBBBBBBBB HHHA| AAAAAAAA ------- |------------------------| -------- Grey bit outside window edge. | Window side A Arms H Hands B Banner I hope that makes sense. I expect there's an easy solution but I've been trying to figure it out for several hours and could do with someone else's perspective. Thanks. Trying to delete my post but no option to delete so just removing content. I'm trying to set a background image that spans from edge to edge in my browser window. Currently, I have everything set up and positioned as I'd like, but the image stops just short of reaching the very edges of the browser window on the left and right sides. The image itself is 2000px wide, so that various browser widths show the continuation of the image. You can see the problem I have at URL Notice the blue lines on either side aren't quite making it to the edge of the browser. The relevant CSS is located at URL The .main div at the bottom is the one with the background image code. Thank you for any help offered. I'm wondering what's the word is called for setting the image width and height in CSS Code:
img.test
{
<<What's the keyword??>>: 10 px;
}
Thanks, FletchSOD Hi, I have a background image that I want to incorporate into the header div of a fixed width layout. The header is of a gradient style - on the left it is a solid color and as you move along towards the right it fades to white. The image is 981x76. If I bring it into Gimp, I can scale it to 1920 x 76 and it looks the same. I would like to be able to do that in a div tag, with the image as a background. I would like the image to scale horizontally just like I can do using Gimp. Is this possible? Basically, I want the browser to manage the scaling of the image. Hi all, I'm setting up a travel, photoblog for my trip around the world next semester (I'm a junior in college), and am having trouble getting the captions to match up on vertical images. Examples by clicking "more photos" on oliverwolfe dot net. I'm using the Wordpress CSS Theme Zack 990 Currently, the captions always set to 990 pixel-width, which fits perfectly with the theme and horizontals. For verticals, I want to know if there is a conditional statement I can add to the CSS so that, if I add a vertical image, the caption will change to 680 width. Thanks! I have an image that is float: right that I want a caption under. I read the Floatutorial and another float tuturial and thought I did what it said, but now the image floats left of the caption - sort of. I want the image to float left and the caption in dk blue to be beneath it. Here is the problem page Here is the css code for the float part: Code: .imgRight {
clear: none;
float: right;
min-width: 100px;
color: #3399FF;
font-weight: bold;
}
.imgRight img {
margin: 0px 0px 10px 20px;
border: 1px solid #000099;
overflow: visible;
}
Here is the xhtml code for the float part: Code: <p>Vitalograph Ltd was founded in 1963, building on a successful business in respiratory
diagnostic and therapeutic products started in 1951. </p>
<div class="imgRight"><img src="../images/p_model.jpg" width="275" height="182" alt="Vitalograph P Model Spirometer" />
1966 Vitalograph P Model Spirometer</div>
<p>Vitalograph achieved its early success
by taking spirometry from a complex laboratory test to a simple effective screening procedure
- with the key benefit of providing early detection, and therefore more effective treatment.</p>
Hi, I try to use two div's to align a caption and a textbox for I don't want to use dozens of Code: between the two below ain't that good Code: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<style type="text/css">
#the_textbox {
position:absolute;
border:1px #FF0000 solid;
left:145px;
top:0px;
font-size:16px; font:"Courier New", Courier, monospace;
text-align:left;
width:90
}
#menulist ul {
position:absolute;
left:6px;
list-style-type:none;
border:1px #FF0000 solid;
font-size:16px;
width:90;
top:0px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="menulist">
<ul>
<li>Fname</li>
<li>Lname</li>
<li>Address</li>
<li>Phone</li>
<li>Gender</li>
<li>BirthDate</li>
<li>Nationality</li>
<li>Marital Status</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div id="the_textbox">
<form id="" name="" action="" method="post">
<input type="text" name="Input6" id="Input5" value="" size="25" /><br />
<input type="text" name="Input6" id="Input5" value="" size="25" /><br />
<input type="text" name="Input6" id="Input5" value="" size="25" /><br />
<input type="text" name="Input6" id="Input5" value="" size="25" /><br />
<input type="text" name="Input6" id="Input5" value="" size="25" /><br />
<input type="text" name="Input6" id="Input5" value="" size="25" /><br />
<input type="text" name="Input6" id="Input5" value="" size="25" /><br />
<input type="text" name="Input6" id="Input5" value="" size="25" /><br />
<input type="submit" value="Submit Registration"/>
</form>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Hi - I'm a bit of a noob when it comes to CSS etc. but have been asked to modify some code for someone. Basically it's a simple site that has the main content centered on the screen (about 960px wide). However there is a large banner image that is about 2000px wide that is supposed to stretch as wide as say a large 27" mac. I am not sure if this is the correct way to do it but I guess they couldn't use a smaller image and repeat it because there is a unique design/pattern throughout the whole width. Anyway, on smaller browsers everything looks good except the horizontal scroll bar allows the user to scroll all the way to to the right. Is there anyway to clip the image on the top to prevent the scroll bar from showing based on screen width? Hope that makes sense. Thanks. I'm trying to make up a thumbnail page that shows pics in a row at a constant height. I don't want the images distorted so the width will vary. I tried: Code: img.proj_thumb {border-style:none; height:75px; width:auto}
Ths worked on mylaptop, but fails on the server - see the attached pics. Any suggestions? I am trying to teach myself doing a tableless website using css and I am starting with header then working my way down I spent all day trying to serach a way to stop the right end image cap to jump down the next row when firefox width browser is shrinked down but it doesn't do that in IE .. Here the url http://www.prismaze.com/ it showing only the header right now and it what I am having issue with .. there are 3 images in it .. left and right and the background .. Here the html and css <body> <div id="logoheader"> <img src="templates/stlaware/images/stlaware_01.png" width="548" height="90" border="0" align="left" /> <img src="templates/stlaware/images/stlaware_05.png" width="55" height="90" border="0" align="right" /> </div> </body> </html> ------------------------ the css ------------------------ body { margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px; background-color : #FFFFFF ; } #logoheader { background: url(../images/stlaware_03.png) repeat; height: 90px; width: 100%; } How do you stop image on the right side of the header (stlaware_05.png) from wrapping to the next row if Firefox browser is sized down in width? Thanks .. Bill See the current solution here ... What I would like to do is dump the table, so that the images and captions wrap at screen width. I have been experimenting with CSS and <span>s but as yet haven't managed a similar formating. And ideas/solutions/pointers would be greatly appreciated Chris Jones URL How's it going, If you look at this page, you'll notice that the text doesn't wrap around the image, but instead breaks after the caption just below the image: http://www.trophyfishingcharters.com/test/ Ideally, I want the text to wrap around the picture, with the caption remaining just below the photo. How can I pull this off? Thank you. Hi, I have hit the "wall" in my knowledge of CSS while trying to implement a "flex-width-equal-height-sidebar-layout" style of layout as a skin/theme for a message board system and need some help. My trouble occurs when a direct link to the post is used (instead of following the menu navigation system) where the top menu information/links area (the area between the banner and the post) is chopped off... The relevant portion of the CSS seems to be the .col_wrap {margin-top: 10px; border: 0; overflow: hidden; float: left; width: 100%; position: relative; z-index: 10; clear: both;} portion of my CSS because if I take out the overflow:hidden declaration then the menu portion of the skin/theme/layout shows correctly but the sidebar the shows the part which should be hidden at the bottom and the footer completely vanishes from view! My apologies but this is the best I can do without having the ability to post pics or urls which could better explain what is wrong and frankly speaking I don't know how anyone here can help given my inability to show the problem but hopefully someone knows or has run into this problem before or can offer some resources that may be of assistance.... i ve been playing with my page and been trying to modify the width of the page (divs) according to the browswer's width. The problem is i want the navigation menu on left to be fixed width (say 200px) and the center div and the right column to be variable width. Also, i want to set a minimum width , so that the floating divs dont roll below the navigation menu. here s the link to the page. try reducing ur browser windows size . the content div rolls down under theleft nav menu. http://ccc.1asphost.com/pacemakerpr...r/cicuitlab.htm Also , i get wierd result in netscape navigator. please help I have an absolutely positioned <div> containing a block of text. I have not specified a width for this <div>. This <div> is nested within another <div> for which I have specified a width of 200px. So something like: html4strict Code: Original - html4strict Code <div style="position: relative; width: 200px;"> <div style="position: absolute; top: 10px; left: 20px; z-index: 100;"> Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Curabitur eu purus a tellus mollis consequat. Phasellus aliquam sapien quis mauris. </div> </div> <div style="position: relative; width: 200px;"> Since the absolutely positioned <div> is not part of the page's normal flow, I would expect that its width would expand according to its contents (and the browser window's boundries). Instead, in Firefox only, the width of the absolutely positioned <div> expands only to the width of its parent - in this case 200px. Am I doing something wrong? or is there a workaround for this? I have seen a design which I find pretty interesting where in the main site is aligned left and fixed width at say 700px wide. Yet the footer seems to span the entire screen. The header also seems to use the entire screen width but that is beign accomplished with the background image, but this footer goes all the way to end of the screen and naturally adjusts itself under all the content. Is there a way to get this effect? I'm at the very very very begaining of a table-less design (my first, actually). The problem is, since I have decided to have a non-fixed width, when the browser is minimized, at a certain point the design breaks. See it here (please don't make fun! it's just the start): SiliconSatan.com/test.php I'd like to set a minimum width, probably on the container <div>, so at a certain point it sort of becomes like a fixed width? No smaller than a set width? [EDIT] Also, I have a question about background color mismatch, but it was not quite OT for the CSS forum: http://forums.devshed.com/web-desig...e7t-403266.html |
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