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JackofAll
JackofAll

Reputation: 537

Aligning an Image and text within a Div CSS

I am trying to align an image and text within a div so it looks like the following

IMAGE TEXT

However when I get them aligned as such, the background colour of the div no longer appears.

Can anyone suggest what I am doing wrong?

HTML:

<div class="introduction">
    <div class="image">
        <img src="">
    </div>
    <div class="text">
        <p>Text</p>
        <p>Good luck!!</p>
    </div>
</div>

css:

.introduction {
    margin: 0 50px;
    padding: 20px;
    background-color: #FFFFFF;
    color: #000000;
    -moz-border-radius: 10px;
    border-radius: 10px;
}
.image {
    width: 30%;
    float: left;
}
.text {
    width: 70%;
    float: left;
}

Upvotes: 0

Views: 91

Answers (3)

Ms. Nobody
Ms. Nobody

Reputation: 1219

I would suggest you 2 solutions:

1) If you want to your output look like this:

IMAGE TEXT 
IMAGE TEXT
      TEXT

HTML:

<div class="whole">
    <img class="ib" src="myimg.png" alt="my img" />
    <p class="ib">my text my text my text my text my text my text my text is so short I will die alone</p>
</div>

CSS: 

.ib{ display:inline-block;}
.whole{ vertical-align:top}

.ib img{width:30%; border:0;}
.ib p{width:70%;margin:0;padding:0;}

2) or like this:

IMAGE TEXT TEXT
TEXT TEXT

HTML:

<img src="myimg.png" alt="my img" class="leftimg" />
<p>my text my text my text is so short I will die alone</p>

CSS:

.leftimg {
   float:left; 
   margin-right:5px;
}

DEMO: http://jsfiddle.net/goodfriend/b66J8/37/

Upvotes: 0

Adam MacDonald
Adam MacDonald

Reputation: 1958

Something like this may achieve what you want:

<style>
    .introduction{
        margin:0px;
        padding:5px;
        background-color:orange;
    }

    .introduction img{
        float:left;
        padding:10px;
    }

    .introduction p{
        padding-left:50px;
        background-color:blue;
    }
</style>

<div class="introduction">
    <img src="img/can_25.png" />
    <p>Text</p>
    <p>Good Luck</p>
</div>

Since your p's aren't floated, they will hold your div open .. depending on the size of your image.

Upvotes: 0

David MacCrimmon
David MacCrimmon

Reputation: 966

Putting the two floats in there side by side makes the parent container's height effectively 0. You can put a div with a style="clear:both;" before the parent's closing tag and you will get your background back.

<div class="introduction">
<div class="image">
    <img src="" />
</div>
<div class="text">
    <p>
    Text
    </p>
    <p>Good luck!!</p>
</div><div style="clear:both;"></div></div>

Upvotes: 1

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