CSS: Box+text over image

Question

Firstly, I would like to show you a image(made in paint).

Okay "current" is what I have now. I want to place a box over the image to the right, with black background, and then have text inside this box.

I tried myself using z-index and so, but without any success. Here's what I tried:

<div> <!-- start div for image -->
  <img style="z-index: -1;" src="1.jpg" width="860" height="240"> <!-- the image -->
</div> <!-- end div -->
<div style="z-index: 1; width: 300px; background: #000; position: relative;">
  <div style="margin: auto;">
    text text text
  </div>
</div>

but this didnt turn out any good. How can i do this?

Solution 1

Something like this?

http://jsfiddle.net/QGMPB/1/

HTML:

<div id="wrap">
    <img src="http://jsfiddle.net/img/logo.png" />
    <div id="text">text</div>
</div>

CSS

#wrap {
    position:relative; /* make this relative to have the inner div absolute without     breaking out */
    width: 200px;  /* fix the width or else it'll be the entire page's width */
    background: silver; 
    border: 1px solid grey
}

#text {
    position: absolute; 
    width: 40px; 
    right: 0; 
    top: 0; 
    bottom: 0; 
    background: black; 
    color:white
}

Solution 2

Your code is messy and overcomplicated for such a simple issue, you can simplify it a lot by only using two elements. The simpler the better.

Please specify if you need the <img> tag.

HTML:

<div id="golf_course">
    <div class="text_wrap_right">
        text text text text
    </div>
</div>

CSS:

#golf_course
{
    background-image: url(http://ww1.prweb.com/prfiles/2006/12/13/491548/ThaiGolfCourse.JPG);
    background-position: 0 -200px;
    width: 900px;
    height: 259px;
    border: 5px solid #000;
}

.text_wrap_right
{
    width: 300px;
    height: 100%;
    float: right;
    background: #000;
    color: #fff;
    border-left: 2px solid #000;
}

And an example for you here: http://jsfiddle.net/Kyle_Sevenoaks/WQT6G/

Comments

[Kyle]

And that's how to do it still keeping that img element! :)

[Stephan Muller]

Yeah, your code is exactly the same except for the img tags. Just depends on the situation which of the two is better :)

[Admin]

div-ification is not a clean solution, especially when appropriate tags exist

[Kyle]

@Karem then Litso's answer is for you.

[Admin]

all browser can support new elements, even IE with html5shiv. If a technology should be finished before being used then I would not even use CSS 2.1 (not completely supported by ALL browser).