photo captions with wraparound text??

[Dave Nelson]

Hi,
I'm trying to include photos with captions in a page where the page
text wraps around the photo. It's easy if there's only the photo - the
caption doesn't seem to be possible. Text doesn't wrap around tables
or gallery items. Is there a way to do this from within FP?? I'm out
of ideas.

Thanks!
David

 

[Dave Nelson]

Hi,

This is close - what was giving me trouble was the ability to include
a caption below the photo and to have the page text wrap around both
items as a single unit. Another posting described using a two-column
table for photo & caption and having the table position float within
the text. It was the last point I didn't know about - now everything
works.

Thanks for the help.
David

 

[Jim Carlock]

Very nice website. xmas.

Another option that might take some more time to set up would
be to start with absolutely positioned DIV tag, with a table inside,
and placing border cells around the table to create a frame, the
possibilities are endless. I just don't have the time to make one but
I can see a picture in my mind.

The table will be a 9 or 12 or 15 cell table with the pic in the center
cell or the second row, middle column or the second third from the
bottom row, middle column. One row can be used for spacing the
text appropriately (creating an image, specifying the height of the
row - in pixels).

A sample of a moving flag inside of div tags can be found at:

http://www.microcosmotalk.com/sample/

The possibilities are endless. I made a comment about tables in
another message thread here indicating that tables are required
and someone replied that tables are NOT required and showed
me a link to a CSS based layout. The CSS layout was a heck of
a lot more artistic than I'm really interested in, but they used <span>
and <div> instead of tables. I prefer to use all the tools and don't
have a preference.

The link to the CSS based pages, though they will require a bit more
time to create and mess with, but they are very very nice pages:

http://www.csszengarden.com/

 

[xmas]

Hi Jim,

That is kind of what I have done on my site... (in a small way)
I am using an external CSS file and absolute positioning + tables...
Thanks for the compliment...

xmas
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[xmas]

Hi GSC,

No.... You aren't missing anything...
When you center it - the text doesn't wrap...
You can give the appearance of text wrapping on both sides of a picture (by
the use of tables) but that creates another problem... When reading the text
do you go straight across the picture to the other side ? Or do you go down
one side and then over?

If you can set your resolution to 1280x1024 you can see that the left and
right pictures are across from each other and the text is in the middle...
The page does look different at different resolutions but is OK at most all
800x600 and above..

xmas
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