How to put text on an image - html

Question

I'm trying to write text over an image with the CSS and HTML below but it's not working..
CSS
.social_media_head{
background: url(newsletter_image.gif) no-repeat center;
position: relative;
right: -9px;
height: 0;
width: 325px;
padding: 30px 0 0 5px;
}
.media_name h2{
position: relative;
top: 2px;
}
.media_name {
position: relative;
top: 2px;
}
HTML
<div class="social_media_head">
<h2 class="media_name">Social Media</h2>
</div>
Example jsfiddle
Update
I'm very sorry if the image I'm referring to is wrong. The image I want to put text on is the image on top of the social media icons (facebook, twitter, youtube)...i.e. Image inside class = "social_media_head".
Once again I'm sorry for the confussion.

Answer 1

you can do this by setting z-index of text higher than image and position absolute
.text{
z-index:101;
position:absolute;
/set the position of text you want
}
.image{
z-index:100;
}
and to text above image
.media_name h2 should be h2.media_name
h2.media_name {
color: red;
margin-top: -30px;
top: 2px;
}
full screen Result and fiddle

Answer 2

Try the following to avoid H-tags, and for the box to adjust for height the image is inline rather than as background: (see code here http://jsfiddle.net/jySZB/1/)
(due to update, the old code is removed and kept in the link above - see new link and code below) -
UPDATE: if "over an image" means above rather than on top (which do make more sense in this case), try this code instead:
http://jsfiddle.net/jySZB/2/
HTML:
<div class="social_media_head">
<div>Social Media</div>
<img src="http://satcomng.com/types/twitter.png" alt="" />
<img src="http://satcomng.com/types/twitter.png" alt="" />
<img src="http://satcomng.com/types/twitter.png" alt="" />
</d
CSS:
.social_media_head {
display:block;
}
.social_media_head div {
color:red;
font-size:26px;
font-weight:bold;
font-family:sans-serif;
clear:both;
}
Result:
Tip: as the images are inline here they are easy to convert to click-able links to go the the social sites (I used only one image for example).

Answer 3

Works for me (simplified): http://jsbin.com/uqazel/1/
Maybe you need to set an appropriate height.