How can I use CSS to style multiple images differently?

Question

I am basically styling a long essay with various images scattered throughout. I would like the first image to "float: left" and the second one to "float: right". I know that I can style the images like this:

img {
float: left;
}

This makes each image have the same style. How do I style each image differently? I tried to put each image in a different div class, so that I could style them differently, but it didn't work.

I also understand, that I could style each image in the html tag, like this:

<img src="ABCD.png" alt="Raoul Hausmann's ABCD" align="left" height="300px">

I keep hearing that it is best to keep style in the external style sheet (CSS), separate from the html. Is this a case where inline styling is necessary?

Seems like you were on the right track--what "didn't work" about putting classes on the divs containing the images? Can you show us what you did and what happened? BTW, specifying height using the `height` attribute on the `img` tag is no longer the preferred way to do this; use the `height` CSS attribute instead. Same with `align`. — , Dec 30 '14 at 04:13
@torazaburo I was putting the "class=__" in the wrong place, but all the answers here cleared it up for me. Thanks for confirming the info about the height attribute in the html tag, I had a feeling it wasn't right. — cphil, Dec 30 '14 at 21:40

score 8 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 31 '14 at 09:45

You can give each image a class or id that will help you to define different css for each image like

<img src="" class="image1">
<img src="" class="image2">

in css file you can define

.image1
{
width:200px;
height:200px;
}
.image2
{
width:300px;
height:300px;
}

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 30 '14 at 02:09

Give your image a class and then you can style all images with that class like this:

.left {
  border: solid 5px red;
  float: left;
}

.right {
  border: solid 5px blue;
  float: right;
}

<img src="ABCD.png" class="left">
<img src="ABCD.png" class="right">

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 30 '14 at 07:15

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All the above are fine, I would only suggest grouping the common settings of picture in this case so that the left/right classes only contains that what is different.

/* Group the common attributesso that you only need to set it once */
.picture, .leftPicture, .rightPicture {
    border: 2px dotted gray;
    width: 200px;
}

.leftPicture {
    float:left;
}

.rightPicture {
    float:right;
}

answered Dec 30 '14 at 07:15

Marius Vorster

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How do I group them in the html tag? I know how to put one class like this: I don't know how to incorporate the ".Picture" class in the html. – cphil Dec 30 '14 at 21:34
You can use only .leftPicture, I included .picture as an example for normal images that does not require aligning. HTML ..class="leftPicture".. I did the grouping in CSS. You can do it in HTML (remove the references to leftPicture & rightPicture next to .picture and then assign two classes in CSS ..class="image leftPicture".. to the same affect. – Marius Vorster Dec 31 '14 at 04:37

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Dec 29 '14 at 23:43

Try this

img{width: 200px;height:200px;background-color: antiquewhite}
.left{float:left}
.right{float:right}


    <img src="ABCD.png" alt="Raoul Hausmann's ABCD" class="left">
    <img src="ABCD.png" alt="Raoul Hausmann's ABCD" class="right">

this will float two images one in left and another in right

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