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Posted by Casey Siebels
Casey Siebels
783 Points

Making an image and text align 50-50

Ok... I want an image and text to appear equal distance on this page under the stars image: http://port-80-2bbts8g40g.treehouse-app.com/webdesign.html

I tried adding an image but obviously missed a step

I want the image and text to appear like on this page: http://caseysiebels.com/web-design/

1 Answer

Stephan L
Stephan L
17,821 Points
Stephan L
Stephan L
17,821 Points

Hi there, there are a number of things you can do:

  1. If the image and the text are contained in separate elements, set those elements to 50% (adjusting for any margins or padding you set). The padding adjustments can also be accounted for by setting each element to box-sizing: border-box.

  2. Wrap the image element and the text element in a wrapper div. Set the image/text elements to display: inline-block, each with a width of 50%, and then set the margins of the image/text elements to margin: auto;

  3. Wrap all of the image elements and text elements in a flex container, set to row wrap, and set flex basis at 50% (again adjusting for any padding unless you use the above border-box rule.) That can create a 2x2 wrapper container. You can then arrange each child element using the order property.

Hope that helps!