How to make a short horizontal line over an image? - html

Question

I am trying to draw a short horizontal line over an image. Like a quote followed by horizontal line followed by author name. An example of what I'm trying to do is below.
How can I achieve this in html css?

Answer 1

You can use either an hr or a div with a border. I made a simple example, hope it helps.
html, body{
height: 100%
}
body{
background: lightslategray;
display: flex;
justify-content: center;
align-items: center;
margin: 0;
}
.quote {
background: url('http://lorempixel.com/g/600/200/abstract/?random=true');
color: white;
background-size: cover;
padding: 2rem;
text-align: center;
}
hr {
width: 40%;
}
<div class="quote">
<h1>A dream doesn't become reality through magic<br/> it takes sweat, determination and hard work.</h1>
<hr />
<h2>Colin Powell</h2>
</div>

Answer 2

you can use the horizontal line in html <hr>

Answer 3

You can do it in several way. How you go about it will depend on what you are trying to accomplish. Here are two ways; one using br element and the other using a div (it could be a label too). If you want to use a different color and add more style to it, you want to go with the div
.motto, .author{
display: block;
text-align: center;
}
.motto{
font-size: 1.85em;
}
.br{
width: 50%;
height: 2px;
margin: 25px auto;
border-radius: 2px;
background-color: #0088ee;
}
<i class="motto">It is better to be feared than loved if you cannot be both</i>
<div class="br"></div>
<!-- <hr/> -->
<strong class="author">Niccolo Machiavelli</strong>
Comment out <div class="br"></div> and uncomment <hr/> to see the two results.