Align and float images with CSS

Images can be incorporated into your website is various way. They can be aligned and floated to allow the images to be placed in particular location in the page. How you want to display the images will determine whether you will align or float the image.

Aligned images do not wrap text around them. Aligning images will only position the image left, right, or center with the text following before and after the image. Aligning leaves quite a bit of white space on your site. You will see the white space when you go though the aligning section.

A floated image will allow the text to wrap around the image like a regular book or newspaper would do. Images can also be floated so they appear horizontally on your site. This is good for displaying images like a gallery. The following sections will explain how to float and align images using CSS.

Left, center, and right align

Images can be aligned left, right, and center using the div tag and an inline CSS style. Text DOES NOT wrap around images that are simply aligned. The following explains how to align your images left, right, and center using CSS.

Left Align

The line of code below is for aligning an image to the left.

<div style="text-align: left"><img src="/support/image/your-image.png" width="100" /></div>

Center Align

The following line of code is for centering an image.

<div style="text-align: center"><img src="/support/image/your-image.png" width="100" /></div>

Right Align

The folowing line of code contains the CSS attribute for aligning right.

<div style="text-align: right"><img src="/support/image/your-image.png" width="100" /></div>

Floating images using CSS

Floating images allows images to horizontally align with each other and allows text to wrap around he image. The following will explain horizontally aligning images and floating images around text.

Floating images left to wrap text

<img style="float: left; margin: 0px 15px 15px 0px;" src="/support/image/your-image.png" width="100" />

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Important! Floated images will overlap each other if the float is not cleared. Make sure you are placing a clear float code after each section your image is floating in. Below is the code to clear your floats.

<br style="clear:both" />

<p><img style="float: left; margin: 0px 15px 15px 0px;" src="/support/image/your-image.png" width="100" />
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Floating images right to wrap text

<img style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 15px 15px;" src="/support/image/your-image.png" width="100" />

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Floating images left horizontally

This will use the same code as before (See below). The images are simply placed one after another to get them to float horizontally.

<img style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 15px 15px;" src="/support/image/your-image.png" width="100" />

Floating images inline with each other is a nice way to display your images as a Gallery. This concludes How to Align and float images with CSS.