[thelist] CSS Image Captions

[Sam Richardson]

Close David but the caption needs to wrap at the size of the image, not push
the box out. (The caption is quite long).

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Bindel" <dbindel at austin.rr.com>
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Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 11:34 AM
Subject: RE: [thelist] CSS Image Captions


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> > [mailto:thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org] On Behalf Of Sam Richardson
> > Sent: Sunday, February 16, 2003 4:22 PM
> > To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
> > Subject: [thelist] CSS Image Captions
> >
> >
> > I am trying to build a box that sits withen the content flow
> > of page and displays an image with a caption under it.
> >
> > The problem I have however, the box expands out to fill the
> > entire parent block element, where I want it to contract
> > around it instead. I can get it to contract by specifying a
> > width, but because it is going into a content management
> > system, I don't have access to images width.
> >
> > Is there something I can add to the <div> to make it
> > contract? I don't really want to have to use a table for this!
>
> I'm not sure if I understand the problem correctly, but it sounds like
> you are trying to achieve the effect seen on this page I made for a
> client a while back: http://www.bordeauxgallery.com/louisiana/index.php.
> Take a look at the stylesheet and you should be able to figure it out.
>
>
> HTH,
> David Bindel
>
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