positioning of a span below an image using css - html

Question

I want the byline to appear just below the image.
I am trying to use the right, left, etc properties in relation to the relative property, but the span moves left of the image.
What is the mistake in my code?
<section id="manchanabele">
<img id="club" alt="club" src="images/club.jpg">
<p id="lorem">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.
<span id="byline">by: Lorem Ipsum</span>
</p>
</section>
section#manchanabele {
background: #C8C8C8;
}
#club {
float: right;
width: 75px;
height: 75px;
}
p#lorem {
background: #A0A0A0;
}
span#byline {
position: relative;
float: right;
}

Answer 1

You are structuring your DOM in a wrong way, you should wrap the elements you want to float in a single container. I will provide you the code which will result you in something like below
Here, in the code below, I will explain you related to the image above, the black border container is .wrap, the one which is having green border is the paragraph, which is p, the red on is the container which you are floating to the right which is .right_float and the nested elements inside red element is your img and span respectively.
For example
<div class="wrap">
<p>Hello</p>
<div class="right_float">
<img src="#" />
<span>Hello</span>
</div>
</div>
.wrap {
overflow: hidden; /* Clears float */
}
.wrap p {
float: left;
width: /*Some fixed width*/
}
.wrap .right_float {
float: right;
width: /* Some fixed width */
}
.wrap .right_float span {
display: block;
}
Note, if you don't care about the older versions, especially IE, I would recommend you to use a self clearing parent class
.clear:after {
clear: both;
display: table;
content: "";
}
Now, you can call the above class on your parent element holding floated elements, and you don't have to use overflow: hidden;

Answer 2

You could keep the byline aligned with the image by wrapping the elements in a container such as a DIV.
HTML:
<section id="manchanabele">
<div id="align">
<img id="club" alt="club" src="images/club.jpg">
<span id="byline">by: Lorem Ipsum</span>
</div>
<p id="lorem">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.
</p>
</section>
CSS:
section#manchanabele {
background: #C8C8C8;
}
#align {
float:right;
width:75px;
}
#club {
width: 75px;
height: 75px;
}
p#lorem {
background: #A0A0A0;
}
N.B. You may want to consider using classes rather the IDs if you need to use this layout several times for similar content.

Answer 3

Use this markup:
<article>
<div class="clearfix">
<img src="http://lorempixel.com/70/70" alt="a random image" class="thumb" >
<p>The quick brown fox jumps over all the messy markup and writes a new one.</p>
</div>
<footer>By The Fox</footer>
</article>
Fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/C5GkH/1/
or if you need the image and the byline always one below the other keeping a blank sidebar on the right follow the advice of #Mr. Alien

Answer 4

Try to clear:both; after the image.
Like so
<section id="manchanabele">
<img id="club" alt="club" src="images/club.jpg">
<div style="clear:both;></div>
<p id="lorem">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.
<span id="byline">by: Lorem Ipsum</span>
</p>
</section>
Also avoid floating inline elements. Better if you wrapped that image with a div and then floated the div.