Adding text to Image using HTML5 / CSS

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  •  30-07-2022
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Question

I tried to make a banner for my website I'm creating, but when I add it to my website, it turns out really bad with the text. I'm wondering if I can add text to my banner using HTML5 and / or CSS.

HTML:

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">

    <head>
        <meta charset="utf-8" />
        <title>Play - Learn - Grow</title>
        <link rel="stylesheet" href="main.css">
    </head>

    <body class="body">

        <span class="banner_h">
            <img src="Images\Top_Banner_4.png" alt="Banner" height="150" width ="1240"/>
        </span>

        <nav>
            <ul class="nav">
                <li><a href="index.html">Home</a></li>
                <li><a href="about.html">About Us</a></li>
                <li><a href="contact.html">Contact Us</a></li>
                <li><a href="membership.html">Become a Member</a></li>
                <li><a href="borrow.html">Borrow Toys</a></li>
                <li><a href="policies.html">Our Policies</a></li>
                <li><a href="sitemap.html">Site Map</a></li>
            </ul>
        </nav>

        <span class="banner_l">
            <img src="Images\Side_Banner.jpg" alt="Banner" />
        </span>

        <span class="banner_r">
            <img src="Images\Side_Banner.jpg" alt="Banner" />
        </span>

        <h2 class="headers">Welcome to the Home Page!</h2>

        <div class="container">

            Our aim is to provide the children of the community with an ever-changing variety of educational and fun toys to enhance
            their cognitive, social, emotional and physical development in the important first six years of their lives.

            <br><br><span class="Links">Be sure to check out our Wikispace site with more information <a href="http://mysocialmediatools-pn.wikispaces.com/">here</a>!</span>

        </div>

        <div id="content"></div>

        <div id="footer">
            Copyright &copy 2013
        </div>


      </body>

</html>

CSS:

/* Entire Document CSS */
html{
    height: 100%;
}
/* Header CSS */
.headers{
    color: #FFD89A;
    text-align: center;
    padding: 10px;
}
/* Body CSS */
.body{
    background-color: #61B329;
    height: 50%;
    color: #FFFFFF;
}
.container{
    margin: 0 auto 0 auto;
    width: 50em;
    text-align: center;
    padding-bottom: 500px;
    height: 50%;
}
/* Navigation CSS */
.nav {
    display: inline-block;
    background-color: #00B2EE;
    border: 1px solid #000000;
    border-width: 1px 0px;
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
    min-width: 1000px;
    width: 100%;
}
.nav li {
    list-style-type: none;
    width: 14.28%;
    float: left;
}
.nav a {
    display: inline-block;
    padding: 10px 0;
    width: 100%;
    text-align: center;
}
/* Banner / Picture CSS / Text in Images */
.banner_l{
    float: left;
}
.banner_r{
    float: right;
}
.banner_h{
    display: block;
    width: 100%;
}
.banner_h img{
    width: 100%;
}
/* Footer CSS */
#footer {
 clear: both;
 position: relative;
 z-index: 10;
 height: 3em;
 margin-top: -3em;
}
#content {
    padding-bottom: 3em;
}
/* Link CSS */
a:link{
    color: #FFFFFF;
    text-decoration: none;
}
a:visited{
    color: #FFFFFF;
    text-decoration: none;
}
a:hover{
    background-color: #028482;
    color: #FFFFFF;
    text-decoration: underline;
}
a:active{
    background-color: #FCDC3B;
    color: #AA00FF;
    text-decoration: overline;
}
.Links A:hover{
    color: #028482;
    background-color: transparent;
    text-decoration: underline overline;
}

I'm trying to center / centre my text on the banner, with a white coloured font (font can be varied). What do I have to do to make this happen? Thanks!

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Solution

It depends on the kind of text you will be adding to the banner. If you want to add text that will be static (as in, it will never or rarely change) and want to add custom fonts, you should probably edit the image in Photoshop.

On the other hand, if the content in the banner will change constantly, then I would suggest adding the image as a background. Your banner h class would look something like this:

.banner_h{
    display: block;
    width: *actual pixel size of the banner*;
    height: *actual pixel size of the banner*;
    background: url('*location of file*') no-repeat;
}

If you leave the width to a percentage what will happen is that the div will not have anything inside of it and thus will not show the banner, so you need to figure out what the actual width and height of the banner is and put it in this CSS declaration so that it shows the banner.

Once you have done this, delete the image from the tag and replace it with the content you wish to add.

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