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CSS

Esha Khanna
Esha Khanna
4,069 Points
Posted by Esha Khanna
Esha Khanna
4,069 Points

Aligning content side by side

I'm struggling to align images and text side by side/horizontally so the images would be column 1 and text would be column 2 (corresponding to images). What am I missing? This is my HTML and CSS: :

HTML <ul class="gallery">

<li><img src="images/butter.jpg"></li>

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<li><img src="images/cheese.jpg"></li>

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</ul>

CSS .gallery { width: 500px; height: 500px; }

.gallery li { list-style: none; }

.gallery li img { max-width: 100%; max-height: 100%; border-radius: 10%; }

1 Answer

Craig Watson
Craig Watson
27,930 Points
Craig Watson
Craig Watson
27,930 Points

Hi Esha,

You really need to have the correct HTML structure in place to me able to achieve a solid solution for this. It's not to complicated once you understand how the CSS will be able to affect things. There is a good article all about floats here.

I have put together a quick example on codepen for you to take a look over..

http://codepen.io/Craig-Watson/pen/RoxPab?editors=1100

Code is below to...

<ul class="gallery">
    <li class="gallery-item">
        <img src="http://placehold.it/250" alt="..." class="gallery-img left" />
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    </li>
    <li class="gallery-item">
        <p class="gallery-text left">Praesent tristique urna arcu, in interdum nibh tristique non. Curabitur at pulvinar ligula. Curabitur gravida consequat tempus.</p>
        <img src="http://placehold.it/250" alt="..." class="gallery-img right" />
    </li>
    <li class="gallery-item">
        <img src="http://placehold.it/250" alt="..." class="gallery-img left" />
        <p class="gallery-text right">Praesent tristique urna arcu, in interdum nibh tristique non. Curabitur at pulvinar ligula. Curabitur gravida consequat tempus.</p>
    </li>
    <li class="gallery-item">
        <p class="gallery-text left">Praesent tristique urna arcu, in interdum nibh tristique non. Curabitur at pulvinar ligula. Curabitur gravida consequat tempus.</p>
        <img src="http://placehold.it/250" alt="..." class="gallery-img right" />
    </li>
</ul>

* {
    box-sizing: border-box;
}
body {
    background-color: #f0f0f0;
    padding: 20px;
}
img {
    width: 100%;
    max-width: 100%;
}
.gallery {
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
    list-style: none;
}
.gallery-item {
    width: 100%;
    margin-bottom: 20px;
    background: #dedede;
}
.gallery-item::before,
.gallery-item::after {
    content: " ";
    display: table; 
}
.gallery-item::after {
    clear: both;
}
.gallery-text {
    margin: 0;
    padding: 10px;
}
@media (min-width: 480px) {
    .gallery-img,
    .gallery-text {
        display: inline-block;
        width: 50%;
    }
    .gallery-img.left,
    .gallery-text.left {
        float: left;
    }
    .gallery-img.right,
    .gallery-text.right {
        float: right;
    }
}

Note I have used `normalize.css on this.

Hope this helps :)

Craig