CSS - Div Layout Images And Text

I want to make a schedule using a single column (unless that really doesn't make sense). There is an image for the date on the left and then i want all of the days events in chronological order on the right of the image. How do I make the text always indented correctly?

I know thats confusing. I want it to look like this:

http://www.kdpatton.com/cosmopolis/program.htm

well the first entries at least.

i am pretty new to web development, and i have a big problem which i cant seem to find a solution to.. i want to type on top of an image on my web page... the image is placed in a table and the table (the whole tag from <table> to </table> including image) has been relatively placed on the page using div tag. so how do i get around typing something ON TOP OF the image ??? for eg... on the ibm dot com homepage, on the header, on the right side, the text "united states" is placed on top of an image... i want to achieve a similar effect. please help me.. please.
and any recommendation for good positioning tutorials ?
i mean, the only way i am able to make text appear over images is by making a new table seperately, and using div tags and set the position as absolute, and setting the z axis to auto which lets me move the table around anywhere on the page (even on top of images) in dreamweaver...
isnt there any better way of doing it ?
and im sorry if this post belongs to some other area, i think his problem is css related..
im sorry ima complete noob
first time on any web development forum.

here is my code
Code:

<div class="abovefooter">
  <table width="906" height="108" border="0">
    <tr>
      <td><img src="images/above_footer.jpg" width="906" height="108" /></td>
    </tr>
  </table>
  </div>
  <div class="above">
    <p>News Forums extreme</p>
    <p>&nbsp;</p>
  </div>

and here is the "above" and "abovefooter" css code:
Code:

.above {
	position: absolute;
	z-index: auto;
	height: 100px;
	width: 930px;
	left: 13px;
	top: 432px;
	right: auto;
	bottom: auto;
}
.abovefooter {
	position: relative;
	z-index: auto;
	height: auto;
	width: auto;
	left: auto;
	top: auto;
	right: auto;
	bottom: auto;
}

I'm trying to position some things inside a DIV. Here's the basic layout:



What I did was put them in DIVs position them within the "parent" DIV relative to the upper left. Doesn't seem to work, so I'm doing something wrong.

Image One is easy, but the text and Image Two I just don't seem to grasping.

I've looked at the Floatutorial, I'm not grasping it, or the answer isn't there.

Should the text block and Image Two be within a separate DIV?

Example: three rows of four pictures each.
Code:

<center>
  <img src="foo.jpg">
  <img src="foo.jpg">
  <img src="foo.jpg">
  <img src="foo.jpg">
<p>
  <img src="foo.jpg">
  <img src="foo.jpg">
  <img src="foo.jpg">
  <img src="foo.jpg">
<p>
  <img src="foo.jpg">
  <img src="foo.jpg">
  <img src="foo.jpg">
  <img src="foo.jpg">
</center>

But what if I want to put text below each image?

Code:

<center>
  <img src="foo.jpg"> <br> blah blah
  <img src="foo.jpg"> <br> blah blah
  <img src="foo.jpg"> <br> blah blah
  <img src="foo.jpg"> <br> blah blah
<p>
  <img src="foo.jpg"> <br> blah blah
  <img src="foo.jpg"> <br> blah blah
  <img src="foo.jpg"> <br> blah blah
  <img src="foo.jpg"> <br> blah blah
<p>
  <img src="foo.jpg"> <br> blah blah
  <img src="foo.jpg"> <br> blah blah
  <img src="foo.jpg"> <br> blah blah
  <img src="foo.jpg"> <br> blah blah
</center>

We lose our rows and tidy appearance. So, put them all in divs, right?

Code:

<center>
  <div> <img src="foo.jpg"> <br> blah blah </div>
  <div> <img src="foo.jpg"> <br> blah blah </div>
  <div> <img src="foo.jpg"> <br> blah blah </div>
  <div> <img src="foo.jpg"> <br> blah blah </div>
<p>
  <div> <img src="foo.jpg"> <br> blah blah </div>
  <div> <img src="foo.jpg"> <br> blah blah </div>
  <div> <img src="foo.jpg"> <br> blah blah </div>
  <div> <img src="foo.jpg"> <br> blah blah </div>
<p>
  <div> <img src="foo.jpg"> <br> blah blah </div>
  <div> <img src="foo.jpg"> <br> blah blah </div>
  <div> <img src="foo.jpg"> <br> blah blah </div>
  <div> <img src="foo.jpg"> <br> blah blah </div>
</center>

Great, text below image but the rows are completely gone. If I try to use float then the positioning gets scrambled from the other text and headings on the page.

Is there a way to handle this? I want multiple rows of four pictures each, with text below each image.

Thanks.

Seems a simple question, but how do I add padding to text within a box but not affect the images?

in my columns I have little 'features' but I have a title above each image and some description text below. What's the simplest way to code it so all the text has side padding, but not the image?

I put a fairly large image and centered it using.

Code:

background: #484747 url(img/main.png) fixed;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: center;

That put it exactly in the center in all browsers (that I have). So working great so far. I then want to load a button on top of that image (like just a button) that says "Enter"

So I make a button and I go through everything until I choose absolute and giving it percents to be exactly where I want it. I refresh the page and boom its there, I move the webbrowser height, use a different browser and its broken badly. What do people recommend using? Like relative and padding or what? Since what I'm using right now only works for my setup.

I would like the align text next to the image and have it flow from the top down. Not adjacent then underneath it.

HTML Source

CSS Source

Once you view the html file, I think you get a better picture of what I'm talking about.

Hello...

My name is Matt and I'm looking for some help with what could be simple CSS coding.

I designed an image using Adobe Photoshop and I plan on uploading it to my website. What I want to try do is make this image after I upload it, to a like certain table. I wasnt sure what the terminology would be for this. I want my image to be the text area instead of using a large textarea code I want the image to be the text area where the text will scroll up and down within the image. I dont want my image to be the background. specifically I need the image itself to be the scrolling text area.

Can anyone help me out with this coding? Or steer me in the right direction of terminology for this?

I'd appreciate it...

Thanks

Hi!

I've a problem that I've been trying to solve for a couple of hours now...

on my test-site testsite

You can se my horisontal menu not turning up alright,

The four images (house, ball, discussion and about) won't be in line with eachother... When I select the text and images in Firefox, I can easily see that there is something wrong...

Can somebody please give me a push in the right direction?

BR

Hi,

I have put off using css for a long time and now i need to figure it out. I am using a free template to learn with. My problem is at the bottom of the page I have 3 small images in a row across the bottom of the page. Theoretically 3 columns across the bottom with text next to each image.

I have played with it for four hours now and give up. Currently the images show but the text runs through the three images.

Here is the css relevant code i believe:

Code:

/* hotstuff */  #hotstuff { 	width: 100%; 	background: url("hotstuff_bg.gif") repeat-y; }  * html #hotstuff { 	padding-bottom: 10px; }  #hotstuff h2 { 	background: #3b2000; 	border-top: 1px solid #fff; }  * html #hotstuff h2 { 	width: 100%; }  #hotstuff .imagebox { 	padding: 2px 8px 2px 13px; 	margin: 2px 0; 	background: 4px no-repeat; 	float: left; 	width: 200px; }  #hotstuff #hot-one   { width: 180px; } #hotstuff #hot-two   { width: 140px; margin-left: 2px; } #hotstuff #hot-three { width: 120px; margin-left: 2px; }  * html #hotstuff #hot-one   { width: 290px; width: 180px; } * html #hotstuff #hot-two   { width: 250px; w\idth: 140px; } * html #hotstuff #hot-three { width: 230px; w\idth: 120px; }  #hotstuff h3, #hotstuff p { 	margin: 0 0 0.2em 0; }  * html #spacer { 	margin-top: 8px; }

I am using of course that the html #hotstuff, 1 , 2 and 3 respectively is for the text but i may be wrong. Any help would be appreciated to help me understand css more.

Thanks,

Gibs

Wow I REALLY hate CSS. For hours I have been trying to figure this out:

Here is some HTML
Code:

<td>
    <div class="linksbar">
        <div class="linkstext">
            link - link - link - link
            <img src="imagelink.jpg">
            <img src="imagelink2.jpg">
        </div>
    </div>
</td>
[CODE]

the CSS
[CODE]
.linksbar {
    height: 28px;
    background-image: url(bg.jpg);
}

.linkstext {
    vertical-align: middle;
    line-height: 28px;
    font-weight: bold;
    color: white;
}

First problem: in Chrome, the text rests at the bottom of the div. I want it in the middle.

Second problem: in IE it looks like a mess. The text is sort of in the middle (more towards the bottom). the image links are at the very top. The image link height is like 20 or something.

Hi,
I'm a begginer in css and html, I've started a webite but the text is not where I want it to be and the Image is where I want it but only because of the text ...
So I would like somone to help me with this ^^


Here is the HTML:
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=utf-8" />

<title>unknown</title>

<link rel="stylesheet" href="stylesheet.css" type="text/css" />

   <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" />
   <meta name="description" lang="fr" content="q." />
   <meta name="keywords" content="s" />

   <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/screen.css" type="text/css" media="screen" />
   <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/lytebox.css" type="text/css" media="screen" />
   
    <script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" src="js/lytebox.js"></script>

   
</head>
<body>

<div id="menu"    
        
    <div id="leftborder"></div>
    <div id="topborder"></div>
    <div id="sidebar">

 <span class="title">
  <h1>Title</h1></a> <p>Sub
</span>
	
	
    <ul id="nav">
		<li><a href="#overview">&rarr;Page Principale</a></li>
		<li><a href="#example">&rarr;Photos</a></li>
		<li><a href="#how">&rarr;Descriptif</a></li>

		<li><a href="#download">&rarr;Tarifs</a></li>
		<li><a href="#support">&rarr;Nous Contacter</a></li>

	</ul>
</div>
    <p>Welcome to my website !!
<span class="images">
<a href="images/gg.jpg" rel="lytebox" title="Moon on the ocean"><img src="images/gg.jpg" width="500" height="400" alt="" /></a>
</span>
    </div>

</body>
</html>

Here is the CSS:
Code:

*{
	margin: 0;
	padding:0;
	}

body 
{
   background-color: #93845E;  
	color: #eee;
	font: 86% 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Verdana, sans-serif;
}

#topborder{	
	position: fixed;
	top: 0;
	left: 0;
	width: 100%;
	height: 4.0em;
	background-color: #1b1f28;
	}

#leftborder{	
	position: fixed;
	top: 0;
	left: 217px;
	width: 0.3em;
	height: 100%;
	background-color: #32322E;
	}



#menu{ 
     position:fixed;
	 top: 31%; 
	 left:15px;	
	 width: 230px; 
	 
	 }
	 
	 
	 
* html div#menu  { 
     top: 38px; 
     left:20px;	
	 width: 230px; 
	 position:absolute; 
   

}


#content{ margin: 45px 20% 5em 315px; }

#content p a:hover,
#content dd a:hover { border-bottom: 1px dotted #8ad459; }

h1, h2, h3{ font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Sans-Serif;}

h1 { 
     display: block;
     font-size: 2.3em; 
	 background-color: #32322E;
}
h1 a { color:#fff; border: none; }

h1 em{ font-size: 0.45em; font-style: italic;
text-transform: lowercase; 
}

h2 {
	font-size: 1.5em;
	letter-spacing: 0.4pt;
	color: #4985A9;
	text-transform: uppercase;
	padding-top: 0.5em;
	}
h3 {
	font-size: 1.0em;
	letter-spacing: 0.2pt;
	color: #c0dB5A;
	text-transform: uppercase;
	padding-top: 0.5em;
	}

a{
	color: #1b1f28;
	text-decoration: none;
	}

a img{ 	border: none;}

p {	line-height: 1.5em;	margin-bottom: 1.0em; font-size: 0.9em; align: right;}
p.lead { font-size: 1.0em; }



	
	/* Liens
----------------------------------------------- */
#menu a{
	color: #fff;
	}
	
#menu h1 a{ font-weight: normal; }

#menu h1 a:hover{  }

#nav{ list-style: none; margin: 2em 2em 2em 0;}

#nav li{ padding: 0; margin: 0; }

#nav a{
	display: block;
	height: 2.0em;
	padding: 0.3em 0.2em 0.2em 0.8em;
	margin-bottom: 1px;
	color: #eee;
	background-color: #32322E;
	}

#nav a:hover{
	background-color: #1b1f28;
	}	
	
	/* Autres */
	
	#content ul.download li{
	padding: 0.3em 0;
	background-image:none;
	}
	
	#content ul{ margin-left: 4px;}
#content ul li{
	list-style: none;
	padding: 0 0 0 12px;
	}
	
	.section{
	border-top: 4px solid #3d3d33;
	padding: 1.4em 0 3.2em 0;
	overflow: auto;
	width: 100%;
	}
.first{ border-top: none; padding-top: 0; }
	
    .title{ 
     position:fixed;
	 top: 15%; 
	 left:15px;	
	 width: 205px; 
	 
	 }
	
    .quote{
	border-top: 4px solid #3d3d33;
	padding: 1.4em 0 3.2em 0;
	overflow: auto;
	width: 100%;
	}
	
	.images{
	padding: 3px 3px 8px 250px;
	background-color: #222;
	border: 1px solid #2a2a2a;
	float: center;
	margin-right: 1px;
	margin-bottom: 10px;

	}	
	
	.section{
	border-top: 4px solid #3d3d33;
	padding: 1.4em 0 3.2em 0;
	overflow: auto;
	width: 100%;
	}
	
.first{ border-top: none; padding-top: 

Hi,

I want to create a page where users can advertise using templates overlaid with their own text. Many of these templates are cascaded forming a montage effect (left to right, top to bottom). I figured this could be done using CSS or PHP. Here is the CSS version.....
User enters data in form (subsequently stored in database) User chooses background image (80px by 80px) CSS used to style the text with the chosen image as a background.....in a sized container.
I know this can be done and have achieved it with varying levels of success, but am unsure as to the best method.

Q1 - What would be the best tag or container to use? The text will be used as a link and must display text when 'hovered' over. Should the text be inside <a>, <li>, <div>, etc etc. I don't know which is best for this purpose.

I know the <acronym> tag can be used for 'hover' text, but besides misusing a tag, it's not supported in Opera (so far as I can see) and is displayed differently in firefox/IE.

Q2 - What is the best method of displaying additional text (in multiple browsers) on 'hovering' the link; could I use a 'hidden' div (which is set visible on hover) rather than a tag property, and if so, how could I make it work for links at the edge of the screen (will the layer appear offscreen)? Not sure how to do this?

Thanks for your time, all responses greatly appreciated.

Duncan

I'm working on something in PHP, which will be pulling articles from a database. I want to be able to place images on the page in the same exact spot for every article, and have the text wrap around the images regardless of where paragraphs begin and end. Is there anyway to do this with CSS?

(I could do something where the person writing up the article enters a paragraph, and the image that goes with that paragraph, and do that multiple times, but I'm really hoping to just have a form where the person enters the article text in one block, and uploads the 3-4 images, and doesn't have to do anything more complicated than that, and then when the article is output on the page, it just plops the four images on the page where I say they should always be, and the text just wraps around that. Hope that makes sense.)