Using CSS to position text after an image - css

Question

I've trying to do something that I'm sure is simple, but I can't do it.
All I want to do is have an image and then some text after that image, and be able to control accurately the amount of space between the image and the text.
Here's my code:
<div class="wrap"><div style="width:189px;""position:relative;float:left;top:5px;">
<img src="30000000_1.jpg" style="position:absolute" width="189">
</div>
In my style sheet, wrap has these attributes:
.wrap {
/*text-align: left;*/
width: 1100px;
height: 870px;
background-color: white;
color: black;
padding: 10px;
margin: auto;
}
I want my text to look like this directly below the image:
Username
Age
Location
Currently, I just add loads of break tags to control where I have the text, but that's messy and there must be a better way.
Thanks in advance for any help.

Answer 1

<div class="wrap">
<div style="width:189px;position:relative;float:left;top:5px;">
<img src="30000000_1.jpg" style="position:absolute" width="189" />
</div>
<br clear="all" />
<div id="bottomText">
Username
<br /><br />
Age
<br /><br />
Location
</div>
</div>
CSS:
.wrap {
/*text-align: left;*/
width: 1100px;
height: 870px;
background-color: white;
color: black;
padding: 10px;
margin: auto;
}
#bottomText{
margin-top: 10px;
}
Change margin-top: 10px to the desired distance.
Change bottomText to a class rather than an id, if you plan on having more than one.
(Note: I removed your "" from the second div because I'm not sure why that was there.

Answer 2

Check this solution jsfiddle. Personally I will not use inline style, because it becomes more messy. I have used <ul> for the text. This can give you better control over the position of the text.

Answer 3

Just use an Unordered List for the text since it is a list. ul are "block level elements" so they will self-clear. And definitely use an external stylesheet vs. inline styles. External is much cleaner and easier to work with and make changes to. Example: http://jsfiddle.net/codeview/Fk3EK/
HTML:
<div class="wrap">
<img src="30000000_1.jpg">
<ul>
<li>Username</li>
<li>Age</li>
<li>Location</li>
<ul>
</div>
CSS:
.wrap {
/*text-align: left;*/
width: 1100px;
height: 870px;
background-color: yellow;
color: black;
padding: 10px;
margin: auto;
}
ul { list-style-type:none; }
li { padding:5px 0; }

Answer 4

I can't get it to work. Probably because you guys can't see the other code I have going on. But maybe I was approaching the problem in the wrong way.
Here's my code before I started fiddling with css positioning:
<br><br>
<div class="imgleft">
</div>
<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>
<span style="font-weight: bolder;font-size: 12px;"></br><br><br></br>
<font color="green"> User69 </font> <img src="online01.gif" alt="" border="0" style="float:center"><br>
Location:
<script language="JavaScript" src="http://j.maxmind.com/app/geoip.js"></script>
<script language="JavaScript">document.write(geoip_region_name());</script></span>
</script></br>
<br><br>
The problem is, the images have a set width, but vary in height, so sometimes I'll use 8 break tags, other times 7, but the exact distance beneath each image (where the text goes) is different. And it looks bad.
There are 3 images on the page, so it goes image, text (well, there's an image as well, flashing gif) below image, then another image with text below it, and so on. From top to bottom on the left of the page.
Here are the relevant bits from my css:
.imgleft {
float: left;
width: 120px;
}
.imgleft img {
clear: both;
width: 175px;
padding-bottom: 0px;
}
I'm certain I'm making this way more complicated than it needs to be! Sorry.

Answer 5

I've put a link to my code in the comments to the first answer, if someone could take a look. Thanks.