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CSS CSS Layout Basics Positioning Page Content Create an Image Caption with Absolute Positioning

Hector Galicia-Milla
Hector Galicia-Milla
8,064 Points
Posted by Hector Galicia-Milla
Hector Galicia-Milla
8,064 Points

positioning of caption

how would you set the fig caption in the video to cover the whole image kind of like an image overlay or is there another way to do this? thank you.

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,732 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,732 Points

In the video, the "width" setting is used to make the caption element go all the way across. There's also a "height" property (not used in the video) you can set to make it go from top to bottom.