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CSS

Posted by John Levy
John Levy
1,451 Points

How to place text over a image or shape?

I am trying to place several lines of text over each of the boxes I made. I used the <p> tag but that didn't seem to work. I also need to use several different lines of text not just one line in each box, similar to the boxes on this site-http://www.shreddedacademy.com/instagram. How do I do this? I have attached my code below HTML- div class="box white_box"> <span>IGBODYBUILDINGWORLD</span> <div class="image_holder"> <img src="igbodybuildingworld.jpg" alt="smile"> </div> <div class="bluebox"></div>

    <button>SELECT</button>
</div>

<div class="box white_box">
    <span>ABSMOTIVATION101</span>
    <div class="image_holder"> <img src="absmotivation101.jpg" alt="smile"> </div>
    <div class="bluebox"></div>
    <button>SELECT</button>
</div>

CSS- /padding and borders compensation/ div{ box-sizing: border-box; } /add wrraper for control blocks flow/ .wrapper{ position: relative; width: 1350px; margin: 0 ; text-align: left; }

/*add shared styles for all boxes*/
.box{ 
    position: relative; 
    width: 250px; 
    margin: 0 7px 15px 7px;
    padding: 25px; 
    text-align: center; 
    background: #fff; 
    display: inline-block; 
    vertical-align: top; 
}
/*add styles only for white boxes*/
.white_box{ 
    height: 550px; 
    border: 1px solid #000; 
}
    /*image holder*/
    .image_holder{                      /*instagram image*/
        position: relative; 
        width: 150px; 
        height: 150px; 
        margin:-10px 0 0 0; 
        border: 5px solid #ccc; 
        border-radius: 75px; 
        display: inline-block; 
        overflow: hidden; 
    }
        .image_holder img{ width: 100%; }

/*add styles for button*/
button{ 
    position: absolute;
    width: 200px; margin: 0 0 0 -100px; 
    left: 50%; bottom: 25px; 
    background: #847bf7; 
    border: solid 1px; 
    font-size: 36px; 
}

span{                                               /*instagram name*/
    position: absolute;
    text-align: center;

    bottom: 20px; 
    top: 205px;
    font-size: 15px; 
    font-weight: bold;
}

.bluebox{
     position: relative; 
        width: 248px; 
        height: 289px; 
        margin: 90px 40px 0px -25px; 
        background: #847bf7; 
        display: inline-block; 

}

2 Answers

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
243,656 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
243,656 Points

:point_right: Place your text inside the div that defines the box.

I put multiple paragraphs in the "bluebox" div's and it looked fine to me:

  <div class="bluebox">
    <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit. Cupiditate praesentium, voluptatum, provident dolores ab nisi officia voluptatem quos beatae aperiam perferendis voluptates.</p>
    <p>Repudiandae deserunt provident expedita vel omnis, qui ex veritatis. Quas.</p>
  </div>

While I was at it, I added a button hover effect similar to the sample:

button {
  transition: color .5s, background-color .5s;
}
button:hover {
  border-color: black;
  background-color: black;
  color: #847bf7;
}
John Levy
John Levy
1,451 Points
John Levy
John Levy
1,451 Points

Thanks for that. How do I position multiple paragraphs in css?