How to draw a line with css and show text or image on it

Question

I\'m trying to draw a line using CSS and show text/image in the middle of the line.

Answer 1

Wrap the text inside a span and use a :pseudo-element for the line.

Position the line(:pseudo-element) behind the span using z-index: -1, so that you could move around the text without having to worry about the line.

.featured-images {
  position: relative;
  color: #666666;
  border: 2px solid #333333;
  padding: 0 10px 0 30px;
}
.featured-images span {
  color: #666666;
  background: white;
  padding: 0 10px;
}
.featured-images:after {
  content: '';
  position: absolute;
  width: 100%;
  height: 2px;
  background: #666666;
  left: 0;
  top: 50%;
  transform: translateY(-50%);
  z-index: -1;
}

Featured

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Replicating the following:

You could use repeating-linear-gradient to do this.

body {
  background: #E7EAE3;
}
.featured-images {
  position: relative;
  color: #666666;
  padding: 0 10px 0 30px;
  overflow: hidden;
}
.featured-images span {
  color: #517575;
  background: white;
  padding: 0 10px;
}
.featured-images:after {
  content: '';
  position: absolute;
  width: 120%;
  height: 100%;
  background: -webkit-repeating-linear-gradient(180deg, #463A3A 10px, #F2F2F2 10px, #F2F2F2 11px, #463A3A 11px, #463A3A 20px) repeat-x;
  background: -moz-repeating-linear-gradient(180deg, #463A3A 10px, #F2F2F2 10px, #F2F2F2 11px, #463A3A 11px, #463A3A 20px) repeat-x;
  background-size: 10px 31px;
  margin-left: -30px;
  transform: skew(-45deg);
  left: 0;
  z-index: -1;
}

Featured

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Using image instead of text.

.featured-images {
  position: relative;
  color: #666666;
  border: 2px solid #333333;
  padding: 0 10px 0 30px;
}
.featured-images span {
  display: block;
  width: 80px;
  height: 13px;
  background: url(http://lorempixel.com/80/13) no-repeat white 10px 0;
  padding: 0 10px;
}
.featured-images:after {
  content: '';
  position: absolute;
  width: 100%;
  height: 2px;
  background: #666666;
  left: 0;
  top: 50%;
  transform: translateY(-50%);
  z-index: -1;
}