positioning elements in a certain place - html

Question

I've been learning HTML and CSS for a little while now but I am pretty self taught so sorry if this seems to be a pretty basic question.
I have this container in the middle of my page (it's a carousel but I don't think that makes a difference) and I'm trying to position two things: a large word on top of it (inside a div) and navigation buttons below it. Currently, I've positioned them both there using position: fixed; and top and left elements. This isn't ideal of course because on mobile and devices of different widths these elements are in completely different positions.
Here's the HTML for the container and navigation buttons, the carousel controls are there too:
<div id="container">
<input hidden type="radio" name="carousel-control" id="button_a" checked/>
<input hidden type="radio" name="carousel-control" id="button_b"/>
<input hidden type="radio" name="carousel-control" id="button_c"/>
<input hidden type="radio" name="carousel-control" id="button_d"/>
<div id="title">explore</div> /*the text I want on top*/
<div id="carousel">
<div class="p-wrapper">
<section class="panel_a">
<h2>Panel a</h2>
<div class="headerdivider"></div>
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<p>Nulla quis molestie mi. Cras quis magna dolor. Suspendisse a scelerisque ligula, ullamcorper imperdiet justo. Ut sit amet nisl malesuada, varius turpis quis, convallis urna. Vestibulum sed odio eget lorem porta dapibus. Mauris augue sapien, scelerisque vel neque vitae, vulputate iaculis tellus. Sed accumsan egestas sem congue vehicula. Fusce quis blandit nibh, non bibendum lorem. Integer maximus mi non eros tincidunt pretium. Curabitur tempor nisi a aliquet dictum. Sed pellentesque venenatis ex ac fermentum. Aliquam vitae tincidunt urna.</p>
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</section>
<section class="panel_b">
<h2>Panel b</h2>
<div class="headerdivider"></div>
{block:AskEnabled}
<p><iframe frameborder="0" scrolling="no" width="100%" height="190" src="http://www.tumblr.com/ask_form/spinningsilvers.tumblr.com" style="background-color:transparent; overflow:hidden;" id="ask_form"></iframe><!--[if IE]><script type="text/javascript">document.getElementById('ask_form').allowTransparency=true;</script><![endif]--></p>{/block:AskEnabled}
</section>
<section class="panel_c">
<h2>Panel c</h2>
<div class="headerdivider"></div>
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<ul>
<li>Aliquam iaculis enim ut mi bibendum tincidunt.</li>
<li>Nulla quis elit in lorem vulputate laoreet.</li>
<li>Praesent non lacus euismod, ultricies lectus ac, vehicula arcu.</li>
<li>Integer lobortis ipsum vitae velit mollis, at commodo ligula suscipit.</li>
</ul>
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</section>
<section class="panel_d">
<h2>Panel d</h2>
<div class="headerdivider"></div>
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</section>
</div> <!-- // .p-wrapper -->
</div> <!-- // #carousel -->
<div id="navigation"> /*the nav buttons that will go below*/
<label for="button_a" class="label_a"> <span>about</span> </label>
<label for="button_b" class="label_b"> <span>message</span> </label>
<label for="button_c" class="label_c"> <span>navigate</span> </label>
<label for="button_d" class="label_d"> <span>social</span> </label>
</div> <!-- // #navigation -->
Here's the CSS for the word I'm trying to put above:
#title {
font-family:'Abril Fatface', cursive;
font-size:40px;
position:fixed;
top:140px;
left:135px;
}
Here's the CSS for the navigation that I'm trying to put below:
#navigation {
position:fixed;
bottom:175px;
justify-content:center;
}
Here's a picture of
what I'm looking to get just with better code of course.
I've tried position: absolute; paired with top: 0px; and left: 0px and I tried putting the div for the words to go above in various spots but nothing's working. (Not sure this makes a difference but I'm working with Tumblr code here.) This is my first time posting here and as I mentioned I'm not too too advanced with coding. Thanks!

Answer 1

You could wrap everything that belongs together actually together, meaning inside a wrapper-element. That way, you can simply use display: flex with flex-flow: column on their parent to lay them out in a column.
Then, with the align-items-property, you can say how/where they should align.
For the navigation I have overridden it with align-self: stretch so that I can center its content.
However, one could have also given the parent align-items: stretch (which is default), and the title align-self: flex-start. Both will give the expected result as long as .carousel is the widest element of the three.
As you see, by using a wrapper-element, you don't need to fiddle around with numbers to position them, and as a bonus, you group them together making it actually semantically clear that they belong together.
body {
display: flex;
}
section {
display: flex;
flex-flow: column;
align-items: flex-start;
}
section > .carousel {
border: 1px solid black;
width: 400px;
height: 300px;
}
section > nav {
align-self: stretch;
display: flex;
justify-content: center;
gap: 0.8rem;
}
<section>
<h1>explore</h1>
<div class="carousel"></div>
<nav>
<a>Some link</a>
<a>Another link</a>
<a>A third link</a>
</nav>
</section>