How to position text over an image in css

Answer 1

as of 2017 this is more responsive and worked for me. This is for putting text inside vs over, like a badge. instead of the number 8, I had a variable to pull data from a database.

this code started with Kailas's answer up above

https://jsfiddle.net/jim54729/memmu2wb/3/

My HTML

<div class="containerBox">
  <img class="img-responsive"    src="https://s20.postimg.org/huun8e6fh/Gold_Ring.png">
  <div class='text-box'>
   <p class='dataNumber'> 8 </p>
  </div>
</div>

and my css:

.containerBox {
  position: relative;
  display: inline-block;
}

.text-box {
  position: absolute;
  height: 30%;
  text-align: center;
  width: 100%;
  margin: auto;
  top: 0;
  bottom: 0;
  right: 0;
  left: 0;
  font-size: 30px;
}

.img-responsive {
  display: block;
  max-width: 100%;
  height: 120px;
  margin: auto;
  padding: auto;
}

.dataNumber {
  margin-top: auto;
}