Question

I’d like to write HTML to align an image caption in the centre relative to the image.

I’d like to align the image and the caption together to the left.

This should be true whatever the width of the containing element.

This is what I have so far:

[unknown containing element]
<div style="align: left; text-align:center;">
<img src="white.jpg" height="31px" width="200px" />
<span>Some caption text</span>
</div>
[/unknown]

But it’s aligning the caption text centre relative to the containing element.

What do I need to fix?

Thanks!

Answer 1

If you really mean relative to the image, make the caption element as wide as the image, then center the text. To be able to set a width on the caption element it needs to be a block element, so I changed it from to :

<div style="align: left; text-align:center;">
    <img src="white.jpg" height="31px" width="200px" />
    <div class="caption">Some caption text</div>
</div>

.caption {
    width: 200px;
    text-align: center;
}

You might set the width with inline CSS if that is easier.

<div style="align: left; text-align:center;">
    <img src="white.jpg" height="31px" width="200px" />
    <div class="caption" style="width: 200px">Some caption text</div>
</div>

.caption {
    text-align: center;
}