CSS Positioning with Text and Images on Same Line - css

Question

How to I align my text and image on the same line?
Whenever I used padding or margins it crashes into the circle image I'm using.
#alignPhoto {
padding-right: 50px;
padding-left: 400px;
}
#alignCompany {
margin-left: 240px
}
#alignImage {
position: relative;
bottom: -250px;
}
.wrapper {
background: #C3C3C3;
padding: 20px;
font-size: 40px;
font-family: 'Helvetica';
text-align: center;
position: relative;
width: 600px;
}
.wrapper:after {
content: "";
width: 200px;
height: 0;
border-top: 42px solid transparent;
border-bottom: 42px solid transparent;
border-right: 40px solid white;
position: absolute;
right: 0;
top: 0;
}
<div id="alignPhoto">
<div class="circle" id=image role="image">
<img src="http://placehold.it/42x42">
</div>
</div>
<div id=alignPhoto class="titleBoldText">Mary Smith</div>
<div id=alignCompany class="titleText">Morris Realty and Investments</div>
<br>
Currently It does this:
My desired effect is this:
Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

You're making it a little more complicated than it needs to be. Just put two elements as wrappers (one you already have in alignImage, set them to display as inline-block and then put the vertical-align to middle, top, or whatever you like. I got rid of all the bizarre padding, which was messing with the display as well. Looks like that was a holdover from your vertically stacked layout.
Edit – You've also got two elements with the ID alignPhoto. You really, really shouldn't do that. If you need to style two different elements with one rule, please use classes instead.
#alignPhoto {
display: inline-block;
vertical-align: middle;
}
#alignPhoto img {
border-radius: 100%;
}
#alignImage {
position: relative;
}
.alignText {
display: inline-block;
vertical-align: middle;
}
.titleBoldText { text-align: right; }
<div class="alignText">
<div class="titleBoldText">Mary Smith</div>
<div id=alignCompany class="titleText">Morris Realty and Investments</div>
</div>
<div id="alignPhoto">
<div class="circle" id=image role="image">
<img src="http://placehold.it/42x42">
</div>
</div>
<br>

Answer 2

One quick and dirty way to wrap it in a table, as to get your vertical align working without any problems as well.
<table>
<tr>
<td>
<div id="alignPhoto" class="titleBoldText">Mary Smith</div>
<div id="alignCompany" class="titleText">Morris Realty and Investments</div>
</td>
<td>
<img src="image/url" alt=""/>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
http://jsfiddle.net/7m5s6gd7/

Answer 3

What about slightly simpler version:
HTML:
<div id="alignPhoto">
<div class="content-wrapper">
<p>Mary Smith</p>
<p>Morris Realty and Investments</p>
</div>
<div class="image-wrapper" id="image" role="image">
<img src="http://placehold.it/250x200" />
</div>
</div>
CSS:
.content-wrapper { float:left; }
.image-wrapper img { border-radius:50%; }
#alignPhoto {
display: flex;
flex-direction: row;
align-items: center;
}
JSFiddle for that
Basically you keep both paragraphs of text in one holding div and float it to left. This alone should do the job.
EDIT:
To make it even simpler, you can use flexbox for vertical alignment.
I've updated the answer.

Answer 4

One of the more effective and scalable solutions to ensuring elements are placed correctly from left to right are to employ wrapper divs with clear:both;. Inside of these wrapper divs you can use float:left or float:right. The wrapper divs allow you to generate a new "row".
#alignPhoto {
float: left;
margin-left: 10px;
}
#profileCompany, #profileName {
display:block;
width:100%;
}
#alignImage {
float: left;
}
.profileWrapper {
float:left;
}
/* Below creates a circle for the image passed from the backend */
.wrapper {
padding: 20px;
font-family: 'Helvetica';
text-align: center;
position: relative;
width: 600px;
clear: both;
}
.profileWrapper:after {
content: "";
width: 200px;
height: 0;
border-top: 42px solid transparent;
border-bottom: 42px solid transparent;
border-right: 40px solid white;
/* Tweak this to increase triangles height */
position: absolute;
right: 0;
top: 0;
}
.circle {
display: block;
height: 50px;
width: 50px;
background-color: #cfcfcf;
-moz-border-radius: 25px;
-webkit-border-radius: 25px;
-khtml-border-radius: 25px;
border-radius: 25px;
}
<div class="wrapper">
<div class="profileWrapper">
<div id=profileName class="titleBoldText">Mary Smith</div>
<div id=profileCompany class="titleText">Morris Realty and Investments</div>
</div>
<div id="alignPhoto">
<div class="circle" id=image role="image">
</div>
</div>
</div>