In this tutorial we will make a nice transparent overlay image caption using CSS.
Intro
There are 2 image overlay caption related tutorials i made “Making image captions using jQuery” and “Making A Cool Thumbnail Effect With Zoom And Sliding Captions”. Feel free to check them out, they’re great :)
Both of them have some cool effect made with jQuery, but yesterday a reader (hi Goodluck) asked me how to have the captions shown by default without jQuery effects. So i realized i don’t have a tutorial explaining how to make a simple overlay image caption and here we are. Enjoy.
How it looks
HTML
<!-- wrapper div --> <div class='wrapper'> <!-- image --> <img src='wolf.jpg' /> <!-- description div --> <div class='description'> <!-- description content --> <p class='description_content'>The pack, the basic...</p> <!-- end description content --> </div> <!-- end description div --> </div> <!-- end wrapper div -->
CSS
div.wrapper{
float:left; /* important */
position:relative; /* important(so we can absolutely position the description div */
}
div.description{
position:absolute; /* absolute position (so we can position it where we want)*/
bottom:0px; /* position will be on bottom */
left:0px;
width:100%;
/* styling bellow */
background-color:black;
font-family: 'tahoma';
font-size:15px;
color:white;
opacity:0.6; /* transparency */
filter:alpha(opacity=60); /* IE transparency */
}
p.description_content{
padding:10px;
margin:0px;
}
That’s it
And we have a nice transparent overlay image caption. If you don’t like that the text is also transparent then i can suggest you to use a transparent PNG image 1px wide and 1px tall as the background of the .description and remove the CSS opacity, or you can use javascript to make a transparent mask and on top of it show the caption text. If you like to see a tutorial on different ways to achieve that, let me know and i’ll see what i can do :)
lør, feb 13, 2010
CSS, Engelske guides