Question

I am essentially trying to create a version of the ‘figure’ element (upcoming in HTML5), whereby I have an image with a short description below it.

However, I want to limit the width of this entire element to that of the image, so the text isn’t wider than the image (wrapping to multiple lines if necessary).

Basic HTML:

<div class='figure'> <img src='...' alt='...' width='...' height='...' /><br /> A description for the image </div> 

I’m well-versed with CSS but I can’t think of any pure CSS solution, without adding a style='width:100px' to the div to match the image width.

Update: After a bit of searching and thinking, the best method seems to be using an inline width on the div. I will keep the width attribute on the image, in case I wish the div to be a bit wider than the image (for example to accomodate a longer caption).

This approach also means I could have two images side-by-side with a caption below. If I have a set of images the same size, I can of course add an extra style to each div.

Thanks to everyone who answered!

Answer 1

Stylesheet

div.figure img, div.figure div.caption {     width: 100%; } div.figure div {     overflow: hidden;     white-space: nowrap; } 

note: to enable wrapping just remove that last css line

HTML

<div class='figure' style='width:150px;'>     <img src='logo.png' alt='logo' />     <div class='caption'>A description for the image</div> </div> 

I’ve checked it in Chrome, Firefox and IE7 and it looks good in all three. I realise this has the width on the div and not the img, but at least you only need to set the width in one place. Short of using css-expressions (IE only) I can’t see a way of setting the outer divs width to the width of the first child element.