HTML: Place an image on top of another one
- by Dimitris Baltas
Inside a div, there is a picture that should have 10px margin in all directions from the DIV's border. On the left bottom corner of the picture there is an about-image.
The picture is only displayed when its loaded in the DOM through jquery.
The problem is that the existence of the about-image dislocates the picture downwards as many pixels as the height of the about-image.
I am looking for the cleanest possible alternative to keep the picture inside the DIV and still display the about-image on top of it. Setting the picture as background will not work since i need the picture to load at once.
Any improvement on the #about css would be greatly appreciated.
Below is a full html page that reproduces the issue
<html>
<head>
<title>Troubleshooting :: align the main picture inside the DIV</title>
<style type="text/css">
html, body {
background-color: #000000;
}
#about {
z-index:2;
position:relative;
top:82%;
left:3%;
}
#pic {
width:100%;
height:96%;
}
#main-content-image {
height:100%;
margin-right:10px;
margin-left:10px;
margin-top:10px;
margin-bottom:10px;
}
#main-content {
height:490px;
border-width: 1px;
border-style: solid;
border-color: #777777;
}
#main-content-image.loading {
background: url(http://farros.gr/images/ajax-loader2.gif) no-repeat center center;
}
a {
text-decoration: none;
text-decoration: none;
color: #868686;
outline:none;
}
.hide {
display:none;
}
</style>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
$(document).ready(function(){
$(function () {
var img = new Image();
$(img).load(function () {
$(this).hide();
$(this).width('100%');
$(this).height('96%');
$('#main-content-image').removeClass('loading').append(this);
$(this).fadeIn();
}).error(function () {
// notify the user that the image could not be loaded
}).attr('src', 'http://farros.gr/images/bg.jpg');
});
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="main-content">
<div id="main-content-image" class="loading">
<a href="#"><img id="about" src='http://farros.gr/images/about.png' alt='Haris Farros'/></a>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
