Welcome to image alignment! The best way to demonstrate the ebb and flow of the various image positioning options is to nestle them snuggly among an ocean of words. Grab a paddle and let’s get started.
The image above happens to be centered.
Image Caption
The rest of this paragraph is filler for the sake of seeing the text wrap around the 150×150 image, which is left aligned. As you can see there should be some space above, below, and to the right of the image. The text should not be creeping on the image. Creeping is just not right. Images need breathing room too. Let them speak like you words. Let them do their jobs without any hassle from the text. This arrangement creates a visually pleasing layout. Maintaining proper spacing ensures clarity and professionalism in design. When text and images harmonize, the overall message becomes more impactful. In about one more sentence here, we’ll see that the text moves from the right of the image down below the image in a seamless transition. This balance between text and imagery enhances readability and keeps the viewer engaged. When elements are well-spaced, they guide the reader’s eyes naturally through the content. Crowded layouts can feel overwhelming, while thoughtful spacing creates a sense of order and elegance. Always remember, the right balance makes a design not just functional, but visually appealing too.
And now for a massively large image. It also has no alignment.
The image above, though 1200px wide, should not overflow the content area. It should remain contained with no visible disruption to the flow of content.
And now we’re going to shift things to the right align. Again, there should be plenty of room above, below, and to the left of the image. Just look at him there… Hey guy! Way to rock that right side. I don’t care what the left aligned image says, you look great. Don’t let anyone else tell you differently. The text should not be creeping on the image. Creeping is just not right. Images need breathing room too. Let them do their jobs without any hassle from the text where they can just ‘hang’ the way they were meant to.
In just a bit here, you should see the text start to wrap below the right aligned image and settle in nicely. There should still be plenty of room and everything should be sitting pretty. Yeah… Just like that. It never felt so good to be right. Or maybe it did, we can’t really say to that. Again, letting it do it’s thing and do it’s thang. You know how that goes. Mission accomplished! A job well done. Aye aye Mister, what else can we say really.
Images With Captions
And just when you thought we were done, we’re going to do them all over again with captions!
The image above happens to be centered. The caption also has a link in it, just to see if it does anything funky.
Full Width Alignments
Lets check some of the full width alignments. How they appear and differ from each other. Below we have a “normal” center aligned image compared to a wide and full aligned images. These images are always stretched to the full available width, so make sure you are using a big enough image to not make them look blurry.
Do note that wide and full alignment on images is noticeable only when the page layout does not have a sidebar!
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This is a paragraph. It is left aligned. Because of this, it is a bit more liberal in it’s views. It’s favorite color is green. Left align tends to be more eco-friendly, but it provides no concrete evidence that it really is. Even though it likes share the wealth evenly, it leaves the equal distribution up to justified alignment.
Center Align
This is a paragraph. It is center aligned. Center is, but nature, a fence sitter. A flip flopper. It has a difficult time making up its mind. It wants to pick a side. Really, it does. It has the best intentions, but it tends to complicate matters more than help. The best you can do is try to win it over and hope for the best. I hear center align does take bribes.
Right Align
This is a paragraph. It is right aligned. It is a bit more conservative in it’s views. It’s prefers to not be told what to do or how to do it. Right align totally owns a slew of guns and loves to head to the range for some practice. Which is cool and all. I mean, it’s a pretty good shot from at least four or five football fields away. Dead on. So boss.
Dropcap & Custom Letter Spacing
This is a paragraph. It has a dropcap in the beginning and more spaced out letters.. Because of this, it is a bit more liberal in it’s views. It’s favorite color is green. Spaced letters tends to be more eco-friendly, but it provides no concrete evidence that it really is. Even though it likes share the wealth evenly, it leaves the equal distribution up to justified alignment. Which is cool and all. It likes everything to be in it’s place and not all cattywampus like the rest of the aligns. I am not saying that makes it better than the rest of the aligns, but it does tend to put off more of an elitist attitude.
A paragraph with custom color and background. I even have custom padding and a drop cap to boost. It is justify aligned. Whats more is that I got capitalized Letter Casing applied and a custom letter spacing. It gets really mad when people associate it with Justin Timberlake. Typically, justified is pretty straight laced. It likes everything to be in it’s place and not all cattywampus like the rest of the aligns. I am not saying that makes it better than the rest of the aligns, but it does tend to put off more of an Elitist attitude. Do we like it? Truth is, it is the Boss!
Footnotes, Strike outs, Inline Images and Highlights
Lets do something different and add a footnote to this right about here 1. We are not done yet. Lets add another footnote here 2 and then call it a day.
TIP : You can click these little numbers to view the footnote!
Now lets try some inline formatting. Like this strike out text which almost seems like an afterthought.3 On the other hand, we have this highlighted text which wants to stand out on its own!
Here are the Footnotes that can be added at the end of your post:
The first footnote that didn’t make it to the original text ↩︎
Why we struck out this line is the reason to ponder ↩︎
Oh, and we almost forgot about the inline images we promised. So here we go. A cute turtle to bring you luck March On!!
HR Dividers
A simple default Divider Block, followed by the Dotted style and the Wide Line style. We even add the 3 styles with a custom color of your choice to add that little pazzaz.
Quotes & Verses
Single line blockquote:
Stay hungry. Stay foolish.
Multi line blockquote:
People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I’m actually as proud of the things we haven’t done as the things I have done. Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things.
Now lets customize it with our own colors, and apply some custom padding while we are at it.
People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I’m actually as proud of the things we haven’t done as the things I have done. Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things.
Now lets do the same stuff, but how about we use a Pullquote block instead!
Stay hungry. Stay foolish.
Steve Jobs
And lets not forget the humble Verse Block. Lets even add some font size to it:
People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are.
Multi line Pullquote with a cite reference and a link:
People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I’m actually as proud of the things we haven’t done as the things I have done. Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things.
People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I’m actually as proud of the things we haven’t done as the things I have done. Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things.
And before we wrap this section up, here we have a Verse again with Custom Colors and Padding!
People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are.
Maven, more like Second-in-command strategist to the Chief.
* People
* Really, What?
* No, I mean seriously, What?
This is a caption for this Table
Did this seem too retro? Or maybe blocks is just not your thing. How about a bit of a striped approach. It keeps the content easy to read, but also gives it a cool new twist.
Maven, more like Second-in-command strategist to the Chief.
* People
* Really, What?
* No, I mean seriously, What?
Details Block
This is a Summary
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This is a Summary of a block with Custom Colors
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This Block is in ‘Open State’ by default
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The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
– Molière
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