Hi,
I (absolute beginner) would like to put an image into a box with a little margin around. I tried with padding and so, didn't work. Then I tried this:
<div style="border:1px solid #CC6699; width:11em; height:5.5em;">
<img style="align:center; width:10em; height:5em;" src="path">
</div>
But instead the image gets stuck in the upper left corner.
Couple of ways to do this:
My usual is to set a background image instead.
In your css:
div#img_container {
background: url(images/myImage.png) center center
}
In your html:
<div id="img_container"></div>
Or to just put some padding around it in your CSS
img#myImage {
padding: 20px;
}
and the HTML
<img id="myImage" src="images/myImage.png" />
CSS level 2 doesn't have a property for centering things vertically. There will probably be one in CSS level 3. But even in CSS2 you can center blocks vertically, by combining a few properties. The trick is to specify that the outer block is to be formatted as a table cell, because the contents of a table cell can be centered vertically.
<div style="border:1px solid #CC6699; width:11em; height:5.5em;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;display:table-cell;">
<img style="width:10em; height:5em;" src="path">
</div>
EDIT
As rpflo suggests, using the background-position property is especially great if the container happens to be smaller than the image. Just remember to include the "background-repeat:none" style if you don't want the image to be tiled.
Try this:
<html>
<head>
<style>
#wrap {
width: 500px;
text-align: center;
}
.pic {
padding: 5px;
border: 2px solid #000;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="wrap">
<img src="logo.gif" class="pic">
</div>
</body>
</html>