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CSS

Posted by Paul Murphy
Paul Murphy
6,162 Points

Text over images

Hi guys trying to get some text to display over an image here's the CSS

.inset {
  width: 200px;
  position: absolute;
  left: 450px;
  top: 100px;
}

.main {
  width: 1100px;
  height: 500px;
  background-image: url("../images/main.png");
  background-color: green;
  box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.298039) 0 0 15px;
  position: relative;
  top: 150px;

.inset is the text and .main is the image. What do I need to do to get the text to display over the image?

Thanks in advance.

2 Answers

J A
J A
6,092 Points

It depends on your html, if it looks like this, the text should display over the image;

<div class="main"><p class="inset">This is my text</p></div>
Paul Murphy
Paul Murphy
6,162 Points
Paul Murphy
Paul Murphy
6,162 Points

Muchos Gracis Justen.... Knew It was relatively simple.

Alexander Sobieski
Alexander Sobieski
6,555 Points

the css z-index is another way to get elements in front of/behind one another