Some Advice on Images and Captions

[Andrew]

Hi,

I am thinking of adding captions to the images on a 100+ page site. I
have a test page at:

http://www.strong-family.org/caption.html

Needs a little tweaking yet but I think if the caption words are kept
short the div will not break until a fairly extreme text size is
selected. (This particular div is set at width:170px)

How bizarre would it be to produce an individual style sheet with a
set of divs for different div/image sizes, for example: 150px, 170px,
190px etc, and then selecting the appropriate size for each image? I
guess I would really need a float left, float right and centered set.

I am keen to hear any ideas from the NG before I start this work.
Feel free to criticise the idea itself and the styling I have used

Thanks for your input,

Andrew.

 

[dorayme]

Hi,

I am thinking of adding captions to the images on a 100+ page site. I
have a test page at:

http://www.strong-family.org/caption.html

Needs a little tweaking yet but I think if the caption words are kept
short the div will not break until a fairly extreme text size is
selected. (This particular div is set at width:170px)

How bizarre would it be to produce an individual style sheet with a
set of divs for different div/image sizes, for example: 150px, 170px,
190px etc, and then selecting the appropriate size for each image? I
guess I would really need a float left, float right and centered set.

I am keen to hear any ideas from the NG before I start this work.
Feel free to criticise the idea itself and the styling I have used

Thanks for your input,

Andrew.

I won't comment on what you have done, it seems fine... and does
not break on my Safari over a wide range. (You got justified
text? I don't advise this because _this_ looks odd at larger font
sizes) but I will say this: If you are going to have inline pics
and captions, you will avoid a real lot of probs by keeping your
captions nice and short and be done! If you need to say a bit,
well... it is in line and and the text is there for saying
things! You can say things gracefully about the pic too.

If you want a lot of text in captions, you wioll get every kind
of opinion and method and theyt will all have their ups and downs
and breaking points. Short captions are a great way to avoid many
probs.

 

[Andrew]

Hi,

I am thinking of adding captions to the images on a 100+ page site. I
have a test page at:

http://www.strong-family.org/caption.html

Needs a little tweaking yet but I think if the caption words are kept
short the div will not break until a fairly extreme text size is
selected. (This particular div is set at width:170px)

How bizarre would it be to produce an individual style sheet with a
set of divs for different div/image sizes, for example: 150px, 170px,
190px etc, and then selecting the appropriate size for each image? I
guess I would really need a float left, float right and centered set.

I am keen to hear any ideas from the NG before I start this work.
Feel free to criticise the idea itself and the styling I have used

Thanks for your input,

Andrew.

Hi Andrew,

You obviously have no idea what you are talking about and have
researched this poorly. Have a look at:

http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/www/captions.html

Move the width:170px to and inline style, that way you can specify
the size of the div according to the size of the image.

Andrew
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