Displaying text over an image thumbnail is one of the most common pattern used widely by most of the websites. In this tutorial, we will take a look into how to design a responsive grid of images using and display text over each image item.
Bootstrap offers different ways to achieve this result. While some developers prefer to use a carousel with a single item others use CSS tricks. In this example, we will use one of the easy way out.
Complete Source Code
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>Bootstrap image Overlay</title>
<meta content="width=device-width, initialscale=1" name="viewport">
<link href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.5/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet">
<link href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.5/css/bootstrap-theme.min.css" rel="stylesheet">
<script src="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.5/js/bootstrap.min.j" type="text/javascript">
</script>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.3/jquery.min.js" type="text/javascript">
</script>
<style>
.caption {
width:100%;
bottom: .3rem;
position: absolute;
background:#000;
background: -webkit-linear-gradient(bottom, #000 40%, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 100%) repeat scroll 0 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);
background: -moz-linear-gradient(bottom, #000 40%, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 100%) repeat scroll 0 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);
background: -o-linear-gradient(bottom, #000 40%, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 100%) repeat scroll 0 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);
background: linear-gradient(to top, #000 40%, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 100%) repeat scroll 0 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);
}
.thumbnail {
border: 0 none;
box-shadow: none;
margin:0;
padding:0;
}
.caption h4 {
color: #fff;
-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="container" style="margin:20px;">
<div class=" col-sm-12 row">
<div class="col-sm-4">
<div class="col-sm-12 thumbnail text-center">
<img alt="" class="img-responsive" src=
"http://www.wallpapereast.com/static/images/6801692-lovely-nature-wallpaper.jpg">
<div class="caption">
<h4>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur</h4>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="col-sm-4">
<div class="col-sm-12 thumbnail text-center">
<img alt="" class="img-responsive" src=
"http://www.wallpapereast.com/static/images/6801692-lovely-nature-wallpaper.jpg">
<div class="caption">
<h4>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur</h4>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="col-sm-4">
<div class="col-sm-12 thumbnail text-center">
<img alt="" class="img-responsive" src=
"http://www.wallpapereast.com/static/images/6801692-lovely-nature-wallpaper.jpg">
<div class="caption">
<h4>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur</h4>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>