aligning image and text

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  helenamallett · Member · Feb 22, 2013 at 7:16 pm

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  how do i align image and text? i want two images with text alongside each.

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  timethief · Member · Feb 22, 2013 at 7:17 pm

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  Hi there,
  The alignment icons in the WordPress editor are for aligning text; they are not for aligning images. http://en.support.wordpress.com/visual-editor/#alignment They are used to achieve wrapping text around images on either the right or left hand side, or to display an image that’s centered without text on either side of it. If the text beside the images does not occupy the same amount of space that the image beside it does then the text wrapping will continue and the images and text that follow will have a staggered appearance.

  Align-left means position left, with the rest of the content wrapping around the right side of the image.
  Align-right means position right, with the rest of the content wrapping around the left side of the image.
  Align-center means position center, with no wrap-around (= the rest of the content below the image).

  Every theme has a maximum displayed image width http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2009/07/23/maximum-image-width/ so it’s important to keep that in mind when posting multiple images side-by-side. If you want two images to be side by side on the same line start by setting the alignment of both images to left. To prevent the staggered effect what you do is insert the following snippet of code into the HTML editor after each image/text pair:
  <p style="clear:both;">TEXT HERE</p>

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  helenamallett · Member · Feb 22, 2013 at 7:32 pm

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  Thanks timethief (again!) but i still can’t make it work. That’s 9 hours trying now so i’m giving up! Thanks very much anyway.

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  timethief · Member · Feb 22, 2013 at 7:34 pm

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  I’m sorry to hear that but not to worry as if you post a link to the post or page in question justpi (another Volunteer) will read the source code and help you with it.

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  mollysydney · Member · Feb 22, 2013 at 8:47 pm

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  I’m having a devil of a time with positioning photos and same problems as two years ago just trying to get the site to work with somple functions like spell check on normal posts . And it works even less well on my Ipad.

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  timethief · Member · Feb 22, 2013 at 8:52 pm

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  @mollysydney
  I’m sorry but I don’t know how to help you. I use the same instructions I posted above and they work for me very time.

  Here’s the link for the iOs forums http://ios.forums.wordpress.org/
  You may want to post here so the developers are aware of the issue > http://ios.forums.wordpress.org/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting
  This is just to be sure are you running the latest version of the app http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2012/08/09/wpios-3-1/

  If you don’t have a username account at WordPress.org, click http://wordpress.org/support/ and register one on the top right hand corner of the page that opens, so you can post to the iOs forums.