On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 4:29 PM, Philip TAYLOR <p.tay...@rhul.ac.uk> wrote:

> I would like, for design reasons, to float an image
> to the bottom-right of a page's content (which will
> be textual by the time we reach bottom right).  There
> seem to have been many many enquiries in the past as
> to whether this is possible, and as far as I can tell,
> the answer has invariably been "no" (although there
> are some combined JavaScript/CSS techniques that appear
> to work).  My question is therefore whether CSS has
> yet evolved to the point where such positioning is
> possible, using modern browsers ?  I appreciate that
> I can position a background-image in this way, but
> of course the text does not flow around background
> images, and for reasons of accessibility I would
> like to present the text on a plain background.
>
> http://web-consultants.org.uk/sites/Terpsichore/About-us.asp
> illustrates the approximate placement of the image,
> but as that page uses a background-image, the text
> does not flow around it as desired.
>
> http://web-consultants.org.uk/sites/Terpsichore/
> illustrates the same image placed clear of the text,
> but only co-incidentally aligning with the bottom
> of the page (if the content were longer, the image
> would remain top-right).
>
> Philip Taylor
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You could try something like this.

http://www.bigbaer.com/css_tutorials/css.image.text.wrap.htm

it would require you cutting up your image but it looks like you can get the
effect you want. I would avoid putting relevant content into your footer.

Jeff
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