WordPress.com Forums » Topic: How can I make text and photos left-align down a page? http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-can-i-make-text-and-photos-left-align-down-a-page WordPress.com Forums » Topic: How can I make text and photos left-align down a page? en Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:00:11 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 justpi on "How can I make text and photos left-align down a page?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-can-i-make-text-and-photos-left-align-down-a-page#post-1168419 Sun, 03 Mar 2013 02:38:08 +0000 justpi 1168419@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ You're welcome.
Align left means place left plus wrap around. Align none means place left but no wrap around.

]]> jszens on "How can I make text and photos left-align down a page?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-can-i-make-text-and-photos-left-align-down-a-page#post-1168343 Sun, 03 Mar 2013 01:00:11 +0000 jszens 1168343@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Gee - that WAS easy.

What function would the "align left" have that would differ from no alignment?

Thanks a lot for the advice, by the way; I've now been able to publish this blog, for the enjoyment of my niece and family!

Jeff

]]> justpi on "How can I make text and photos left-align down a page?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-can-i-make-text-and-photos-left-align-down-a-page#post-1168224 Sat, 02 Mar 2013 22:27:10 +0000 justpi 1168224@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Yes, if you "want the text to be either above or below the photograph that it describes" there is a simple solution: you don't need any extra code, you just set the alignment of the images to none instead of left.

]]> jszens on "How can I make text and photos left-align down a page?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-can-i-make-text-and-photos-left-align-down-a-page#post-1168149 Sat, 02 Mar 2013 20:56:56 +0000 jszens 1168149@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ The top two photos and text are okay, and for these two I used the suggestion posted by TimeThief. However, I still have the "Text Here" showing up, and cannot seem to get that to go away. I'm sure that there is a simple solution to this - I just don't know what it is!

]]> jszens on "How can I make text and photos left-align down a page?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-can-i-make-text-and-photos-left-align-down-a-page#post-1168144 Sat, 02 Mar 2013 20:54:18 +0000 jszens 1168144@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Okay, that post has been published. The problem is the text: I want the text to be either above or below the photograph that it describes - not to the right of the photos. And I can't seem to make that happen.

]]> jszens on "How can I make text and photos left-align down a page?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-can-i-make-text-and-photos-left-align-down-a-page#post-1168141 Sat, 02 Mar 2013 20:51:42 +0000 jszens 1168141@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Oh, that's right, I have only saved it as a draft. One sec and I will fix it! Sorry....

]]> justpi on "How can I make text and photos left-align down a page?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-can-i-make-text-and-photos-left-align-down-a-page#post-1168051 Sat, 02 Mar 2013 17:33:56 +0000 justpi 1168051@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ ? http://laurenzenshorses.wordpress.com/ has no posts.

]]> jszens on "How can I make text and photos left-align down a page?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-can-i-make-text-and-photos-left-align-down-a-page#post-1168029 Sat, 02 Mar 2013 16:21:38 +0000 jszens 1168029@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Thank you for looking at this issue. I have made the blog public for the time being, and I appreciate your efforts.

]]> justpi on "How can I make text and photos left-align down a page?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-can-i-make-text-and-photos-left-align-down-a-page#post-1167855 Sat, 02 Mar 2013 05:26:14 +0000 justpi 1167855@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Timethief's reply is confused.
And your blog is private: if you wish, you can temporarily switch to the middle privacy option so we can see what the actual content is and tell you what needs to be done.

]]> jszens on "How can I make text and photos left-align down a page?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-can-i-make-text-and-photos-left-align-down-a-page#post-1167836 Sat, 02 Mar 2013 04:57:42 +0000 jszens 1167836@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ If I insert the html code after each text/photo pair, what text goes in the TEXT HERE block?

Thank you for replying so quickly!

]]> timethief on "How can I make text and photos left-align down a page?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-can-i-make-text-and-photos-left-align-down-a-page#post-1167828 Sat, 02 Mar 2013 04:42:32 +0000 timethief 1167828@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Hi there,
The alignment icons in the WordPress editor are for aligning text; they are not for aligning images. http://en.support.wordpress.com/visual-editor/#alignment They are used to achieve wrapping text around images on either the right or left hand side, or to display an image that's centered without text on either side of it. If the text beside the images does not occupy the same amount of space that the image beside it does then the text wrapping will continue and the images and text that follow will have a staggered appearance.

Align-left means position left, with the rest of the content wrapping around the right side of the image.
Align-right means position right, with the rest of the content wrapping around the left side of the image.
Align-center means position center, with no wrap-around (= the rest of the content below the image).

To prevent the staggered effect what you do is insert the following snippet of code into the HTML editor after each image/text pair:
<p style="clear:both;">TEXT HERE</p>

Every theme has a maximum displayed image width http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2009/07/23/maximum-image-width/ so it's important to keep that in mind when posting multiple images side-by-side. If you want two images to be side by side on the same line start by setting the alignment of both images to left.

]]> jszens on "How can I make text and photos left-align down a page?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-can-i-make-text-and-photos-left-align-down-a-page#post-1167822 Sat, 02 Mar 2013 04:35:00 +0000 jszens 1167822@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I can't make text align properly around photos. I have inserted returns to move text down the page, so that the text appears either above or below the photos I have added to the page. However, each time I save the page, the text jumps right back where it was. The post in question is the first one I have added to this blog. I have had this issue with other blog posts, but have always been able to correct the alignment. Not this time.

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