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Positioning an image
Wrapping text around an image
Initially, when an image is inserted into a paragraph, it behaves as if it were a character. Text
isn't wrapped around an image automatically. To make that happen, you have to change the
float property of the image to left or right. This anchors the image to the left or right,
allowing text to be wrapped around it.
Select the image (see "Selecting an element" on page632) and use the (Float left) and
(Float right) icons on the toolbar to change the position of an image within the text.
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The Float left button aligns the image to the left. The text is positioned to the right of it and
is wrapped around the box.
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The Float right button aligns the image to the right, with the text wrapped around it to the
left.
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The No float button positions the image where it occurs in the text, as if it were a
character. Text is not wrapped around it.
To position an image using the menu, select the image and then select one of the options in
Format > Float.
Alternatively, open the Formatting dialog (see "Applying local formatting to an image" on the
previous page): select the image; on the menu, select Format > Image and on the Image tab,
under Text Wrap, set the Float property.
The float property could also be changed via a style sheet. This property isn't present in one of
the tab menus of the style rule editor directly, but you can add it and specify its value after
clicking the Advanced button in the style rule editor (see "Applying style rules to an image" on
the previous page).
Pulling an image out of the text flow
When dragged into a template, an image is automatically integrated in the text flow. This means
that it will move up or down, depending on the preceding text.
In a Print section, to position the image independently of the text flow, you can change its
position property to absolute. (For an explanation of all possible values for this property, see
https://www.w3schools.com/css/css_positioning.asp.)
When an image is placed inside a Box (or Div element), changing its position property to
absolute positions the image absolutely inside that Box.
Note that float, the property that can make an image float to the right or left (see "Wrapping text
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