Jan 27 2006
Image on top of an image
I build a site for my sister-in-law’s business at www.cfeinvestments.com. She asked me if I could put a “Sale Pending” sign on sold property. Sure, I can do anything! But how would I do this and make it as easy as possible. A few ideas came to mind:
- Use some fancy GD library or ImageMagik functions to create a new image on the fly.
- Get the image size using PHP and create a div to match that size. Use the image as the back-ground of the div and put the banner inside the div. Then use javascript to link to the full-size image.
While these ideas are certainly doable, they weren’t worth my time. I’d rather just write a message above the image than go that far. There had to be a way to put an image on top of an image so I could still use a link and all. After Google Talking with a friend, between the two of us we came up with a working solution. It seems to work well in both IE & Firefox.
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