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CSS

Posted by Lindley Canonigo
Lindley Canonigo
691 Points

How to float a paragraph under the images to the left instead in the center.

Based on the video that I just followed the images was float to the left and also the text underneath of it but mine the text was not floating to the left but in the center. I want to change it to the left instead in the center. Pls. help how to make it happen.

Richard Hope
Richard Hope
25,237 Points

please paste in the html/css code you have so far

Lindley Canonigo
Lindley Canonigo
691 Points

Here are the codes that I'm currently working:

/******************************* GENERAL ******************************/

body { font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; }

wrapper {

max-width: 940px; margin: 0 auto; padding: 0 5%; }

a { text-decoration: none; }

img { max-width: 100%; }

/******************************* HEADING ******************************/

logo {

text-align: center;
margin:0;

}

h1 { font-family: 'Changa One', sans-serif; margin: 15px 0; font-size: 1.75em; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0.8em; }

h2 { font-size: 0.75em; margin: -5px 0 0; font-weight: normal;

}

/******************************* NAVIGATION ******************************/

nav { text-align: center; padding: 10px 0; margin: 20px 0 0; }

nav ul { list-style: none; margin: 0 10px; padding: 0; }

nav li { display: inline-block; }

nav a { font-weight: 800; padding: 15px 10px; } /******************************* FOOTER ******************************/

footer { font-size: 0.75em; text-align: center; clear: both; padding-top: 50px; color: #ccc; }

/******************************* PAGE PORTFOLIO ******************************/

gallery {

margin: 0; padding: 0; list-style: none; }

gallery li {

float: left; width: 45%; margin: 2.5%; background-color: #f5f5f5; color: #bdc3c7; }

gallery li a p {

margin: 0; padding: 5%; font-size: 0.75em; color: #bdc3c7; }

/******************************* COLORS ******************************/

/* site body */ body { background-color: #fff; color: #999; }

/* green header */ header{ background: #6ab47b; border-color: #599a68; }

/* nav background on mobile */ nav{ background: #599a68; }

/* logo text */ h1, h2 { color: #fff; }

a { color: #6ab47b; }

/* nav link */ nav a, nav a:visited { color: #fff; }

/* selected nav link */ nav a.selected, nav a:hover { color:#32673f; }

Richard Hope
Richard Hope
25,237 Points

your html as well please

Lindley Canonigo
Lindley Canonigo
691 Points

Here are my HTML codes:

<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <title>Lindley Canonigo | Designer</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/normalize.css"> <link href='https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Changa+One|Open+Sans:400,400italic,700,700italic,800' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'> <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/main.css"> </head> <body> <header> <a href="index.html" id="logo"> <h1>Lindley Canonigo</h1> <h2>Designer</h2> </a> <nav> <ul> <li><a href="index.html" class="selected">Portfolio</a></li> <li><a href="about.html">About</a></li> <li><a href="contact.html">Contact</a></li> </ul>
</nav> </header> <div id="wrapper"> <section> <nav> <ul id="gallery"> <li> <a href="img/numbers=-01.pjg"> <img src="img/numbers-01.jpg" alt=""> <p>Experimentation with color and texture.</p> </a> </li>

       <li>
          <a href="img/numbers=-02.pjg">
            <img src="img/numbers-02.jpg" alt="">
            <p>Playing with blending modes in Photoshop.</p>
          </a>
        </li>

        <li>
          <a href="img/numbers=-06.pjg">
            <img src="img/numbers-06.jpg" alt="">
            <p>Trying to create an 80's style of glows.</p>
          </a>
        </li>

        <li>
          <a href="img/numbers=-09.pjg">
            <img src="img/numbers-09.jpg" alt="">
            <p>Drips created using Photoshop brushes.</p>
          </a>
        </li>

        <li>
          <a href="img/numbers=-12.pjg">
            <img src="img/numbers-12.jpg" alt="">
            <p>Creating shapes using repetition.</p>
          </a>
        </li>


      </ul>
    </nav>
  </section>
  <footer>
    <a href="http://twitter.com/lindleycanonigo"><img src="img/twitter-wrap.png" alt="Twitter logo" class="social-icon"></a>
    <a href="http://facebook.com/lindley.canonigo"><img src="img/facebook-wrap.png" alt="Facebook Logo" class="social-icon"></a>
    <p>&copy; 2015 Lindley Canonigo.</p>
  </footer>
</div>

</body> </html>

2 Answers

Richard Hope
Richard Hope
25,237 Points
Richard Hope
Richard Hope
25,237 Points

There's no reason why the text wouldn't float to the left or be left aligned as default. Problems you may be having:

  1. Your gallery selectors don't have a dot in front, so they may not be working
  2. You have some padding on the p elements so that may be making the text look like it is centred

Other than that I suggest you open developer tools in your browser and see what if anything is causing the text to cente.

Nicolas Hampton
Nicolas Hampton
44,725 Points
Nicolas Hampton
Nicolas Hampton
44,725 Points

Richard is pretty spot on here. Also, the top of the html code seems to be cut off, so we really can't see if the gallery, wrapper, and logo classes were declared in the html in the first place.

Heidi Bada
Heidi Bada
14,197 Points
Heidi Bada
Heidi Bada
14,197 Points

Try inspecting elements using Chrome browser, where you can click on the paragraph text and its CSS. Somewhere in there will be a CSS entry that centres it, then you can add that to your stylesheet as a text-align left:

li a p { text-align: left; }

Or try adding a class to the <p> elements then add text-align to them, or a div with class="wrapper" or "photo-with-caption" or something, then add text-align to that. Padding-left: 0; may also help, applied to the li, a, or p element, to override the padding that appears earlier in the stylesheet.