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Learn more about Labs How to wrap text around an image using HTML/CSS Ask Question Asked 11 years, 1 month ago Modified 5 months ago Viewed 418k times 153

I want to design a block of text like the following picture:

Question whether this is possible?

• html
• css

Share Improve this question Follow edited Feb 17, 2020 at 9:56 Penny Liu 17.1k55 gold badges8686 silver badges108108 bronze badges asked Oct 4, 2013 at 10:51 user1780343user1780343 1,61922 gold badges1010 silver badges1010 bronze badges 3

• 2 possible duplicate of Wrapping text around an image with indentation and justify – mavrosxristoforos Commented Oct 4, 2013 at 11:05
• Are you trying to wrap text around an image as in regular <p> tags and so on, but you also mentioned <textarea>, which could be a totally different problem. Why don't you post your HTML if you have some? Thank you. – Marc Audet Commented Oct 4, 2013 at 12:44
• 1 Yeah, you'd just float the php image to the left, and the text will wrap around it :-) – Jack Commented Dec 18, 2013 at 15:13

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you have to float your image container as follows:

HTML

<div id="container"> <div id="floated">...some other random text</div> ... some random text ... </div>

CSS

#container{ width: 400px; background: yellow; } #floated{ float: left; width: 150px; background: red; }

FIDDLE

http://jsfiddle.net/kYDgL/

Share Improve this answer Follow edited Apr 20, 2015 at 21:58 answered Oct 4, 2013 at 10:56 BeNdErRBeNdErR 17.9k2121 gold badges7676 silver badges106106 bronze badges 0 Add a comment | 77

With CSS Shapes you can go one step further than just float text around a rectangular image.

You can actually wrap text such that it takes the shape of the edge of the image or polygon that you are wrapping it around.

DEMO FIDDLE (Currently working on webkit - caniuse)

.oval { width: 400px; height: 250px; color: #111; border-radius: 50%; text-align: center; font-size: 90px; float: left; shape-outside: ellipse(); padding: 10px; background-color: MediumPurple; background-clip: content-box; } span { padding-top: 70px; display: inline-block; } <div class="oval"><span>PHP</span> </div> <p>Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum.Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum.Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum.</p>

Also, here is a good list apart article on CSS Shapes

Share Improve this answer Follow edited Jan 30, 2017 at 10:33 answered Oct 27, 2014 at 10:42 DanieldDanield 125k3737 gold badges233233 silver badges263263 bronze badges 2

• 2 Is there any option how to wrap "AROUND" the object so that the object can be in the middle? – redestructa Commented Jul 7, 2016 at 11:22
• @redestructa check out CSS exclusions.See my post: stackoverflow.com/a/19895616/703717 It's currently only supported in IE - caniuse.com/#feat=css-exclusions – Danield Commented Jul 7, 2016 at 11:45

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Addition to BeNdErR's answer: The "other TEXT" element should have float:none, like:

<div style="width:100%;"> <div style="float:left;width:30%; background:red;">...something something something random text</div> <div style="float:none; background:yellow;"> text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text </div> </div>

Share Improve this answer Follow edited Jun 9, 2019 at 9:09 answered Oct 27, 2014 at 9:19 T.ToduaT.Todua 56.1k2222 gold badges253253 silver badges258258 bronze badges 2

• this is the only way I could get this to work.. And cleanest solution. – andygoestohollywood Commented Dec 6, 2014 at 16:23
• float:none was what saved me! Kept trying to float:right the second element to no avail. – bkunzi01 Commented Apr 16, 2018 at 16:10

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If the image size is variable or the design is responsive, in addition to wrapping the text, you can set a min width for the paragraph to avoid it to become too narrow. Give an invisible CSS pseudo-element with the desired minimum paragraph width. If there isn't enough space to fit this pseudo-element, then it will be pushed down underneath the image, taking the paragraph with it.

#container:before { content: ' '; display: table; width: 10em; /* Min width required */ } #floated{ float: left; width: 150px; background: red; } Share Improve this answer Follow edited Jun 24, 2016 at 7:28 answered Sep 1, 2015 at 6:30 Jithin BJithin B 1,2891111 silver badges1313 bronze badges 1

• I think your answer may save me some bacon. I was having a problem with left floated images stacking up in a responsive design. With my default image width being 30% and images on both sides, I could sometimes have a text column only 4 characters wide. – Sherwood Botsford Commented Jul 8, 2017 at 16:50

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I was trying to achieve this type of result with the least amount of code possible. This is what worked for me.

#wrap { margin: 3em 8em; } .left { float: left; margin-right: 1.5em; } .right { float: right; margin-left: 1em; } p { margin-bottom: 2.5em; overflow: hidden; /* this is what keep the <p> from wrapping */ } p:last-child { overflow: visible; /* this is an example of the browser default */ } <div id="wrap"> <img class="left" src="http://dummyimage.com/172x172/0088cc/ffffff.gif&amp;text=.img"> <p>Nullam id dolor id nibh ultricies vehicula ut id elit. Donec id elit non mi porta gravida at eget metus. Morbi leo risus, porta ac consectetur ac, vestibulum at eros. Donec sed odio dui. Nullam id dolor id nibh ultricies vehicula ut id elit. Vivamus sagittis lacus vel augue laoreet rutrum faucibus dolor auctor. Etiam porta sem malesuada magna mollis euismod. Donec id elit non mi porta gravida at eget metus. Praesent commodo cursus magna, vel scelerisque nisl consectetur et. Aenean lacinia bibendum nulla sed consectetur. Nulla vitae elit libero, a pharetra augue. Morbi leo risus, porta ac consectetur ac, vestibulum at eros. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Cras mattis consectetur purus sit amet fermentum.</p> <img class="right" src="http://dummyimage.com/172x172/0088cc/ffffff.gif&amp;text=.img"> <p>Nullam id dolor id nibh ultricies vehicula ut id elit. Donec id elit non mi porta gravida at eget metus. Morbi leo risus, porta ac consectetur ac, vestibulum at eros. Donec sed odio dui. Nullam id dolor id nibh ultricies vehicula ut id elit. Vivamus sagittis lacus vel augue laoreet rutrum faucibus dolor auctor. Etiam porta sem malesuada magna mollis euismod. Donec id elit non mi porta gravida at eget metus. Praesent commodo cursus magna, vel scelerisque nisl consectetur et. Aenean lacinia bibendum nulla sed consectetur. Nulla vitae elit libero, a pharetra augue. Morbi leo risus, porta ac consectetur ac, vestibulum at eros. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Cras mattis consectetur purus sit amet fermentum.</p> <img class="right" src="http://dummyimage.com/172x172/0088cc/ffffff.gif&amp;text=.img"> <p>Nullam id dolor id nibh ultricies vehicula ut id elit. Donec id elit non mi porta gravida at eget metus. Morbi leo risus, porta ac consectetur ac, vestibulum at eros. Donec sed odio dui. Nullam id dolor id nibh ultricies vehicula ut id elit. Vivamus sagittis lacus vel augue laoreet rutrum faucibus dolor auctor. Etiam porta sem malesuada magna mollis euismod. Donec id elit non mi porta gravida at eget metus. Praesent commodo cursus magna, vel scelerisque nisl consectetur et. Aenean lacinia bibendum nulla sed consectetur. Nulla vitae elit libero, a pharetra augue. Morbi leo risus, porta ac consectetur ac, vestibulum at eros. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Cras mattis consectetur purus sit amet fermentum.</p> </div>

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• man, just use a flexbox – Yuriy Kravets Commented Aug 14, 2022 at 15:07
• 5 @YuriyKravets : I personally find that flexbox is not very flexible in my honest opinion. The irony of the name. You cant maneuver around a flex. – Grogu Commented Aug 15, 2022 at 16:39
• @Grogu how can I place the 3rd .img at the bottom-right corner with the text still floated around it? I can't seem to achieve that. Thanks – Le_Buzz Commented Sep 4, 2022 at 1:57

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Image on the Left

If you are using Bootstrap you can use float-start on the image element and that will do the trick. me-3 is optional. This is using just one class.

<img src="logo.png" class="float-start me-3" alt=""> <div>Lorem ipsum ...</div> <!-- without Bootstrap --> <img src="logo.png" style="float:left;margin-right:1rem" alt=""> <div>Lorem ipsum ...</div>

Output

Image on the right

<img src="logo.png" class="float-end ms-3" alt=""> <div>Lorem ipsum ...</div> <!-- without Bootstrap --> <img src="logo.png" style="float:right;margin-left:1rem" alt=""> <div>Lorem ipsum ...</div>

Output

Share Improve this answer Follow edited Jun 10 at 10:35 answered Jun 10 at 10:29 DexterDexter 9,22444 gold badges4646 silver badges4646 bronze badges Add a comment | 0

Try following code:

.my-image{ width: -webkit-fill-available; padding-top: 10px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; } <div style="width:100%;"> <div style="float: right;width: 40%;"> <img class='my-image' src="https://via.placeholder.com/150/92c952"> </div> <div style="float:none; background:yellow;"> text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text </div> <div style="float:none; 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