Question

I have an image and a rectangle (a paragraph with a coloured background) that should have their tops line up. They’re both absolutely positioned and have the same style-top value, but the top of the rectangle is appearing about 15px below the top of the image, and I can’t figure out why. Is there any reason why this might be happening?

HTML:

<img class="v1" id="image" src="/COMP2405A4/images/resized_adorkable!.jpg" style="position:absolute;top:313px;left: 61px;" alt = "Your Image">
<p class="mask" id="tmask" style="position:absolute;top:313px;left: 61px;width: 400px;height: 20px"> </p>

CSS:

p.mask {background: rgb(255,255,255);
  opacity:0.5;
}

Answer 1

Your elements don’t line up because the margins of your elements aren’t the same.

Try explicitly setting margin: 0; on the p element.