Get table cells to collapse horizontally - css

Question

I am trying to have an image sitting next to some text. The text needs to sit halfway vertically on the image
[IMG]
[IMG] Here is the text
[IMG]
I am getting the following, because the two cell divs are equal width, instead of matching content width:
[IMG]
[IMG] Here is the text
[IMG]
The code is preexisting. There is a table container div:
.vertical-align-container {
display: table;
table-layout: auto;
width: 100%;
}
And two table cell divs:
.vertical-align-child {
display: table-cell;
vertical-align: middle;
padding-left: 15px;
}
So no matter what I do, the table cells are equal width. How can I get the first to match content width, and the second to fill the remainder of the container?
HTML:
<div class="vertical-align-container">
<div class="vertical-align-child" style="padding-left: 0;">
<img src="path/img.png">
</div>
<div class="vertical-align-child">
<p>Here is the text</p>
</div>
</div>
As you can see, I've tried a couple things, but what I've included here is table-layout, which I though was supposed to do exactly this?

Answer 1

I think you could approach this with flexbox.
You can use the align-items property for vertical centering.
.container,
.text {
display: flex;
}
.text {
align-items: center;
padding-left: 1rem;
}
.image img {
display: block;
width: 100%;
height: auto;
}
<div class="container">
<div class="image">
<img src="https://unsplash.it/200">
</div>
</div>
<div class="container">
<div class="image">
<img src="https://unsplash.it/200">
</div>
<div div class="text">
<p>
Here is the text
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="container">
<div class="image">
<img src="https://unsplash.it/200">
</div>
</div>

Answer 2

Found an ugly workaround for this here:
CSS table column autowidth
The issue I was having was that my image is set to 100% width, while using a max-width of the size I wanted it to stop at. Apparently the table isn't willing to read in the max-width as the content size, so it chose 50%.
I hacked in a width for the image and set the table cell to have nowrap, as in the linked question. It's not by any means a good answer, but it'll do for a quick fix.