How Do I Put Text In Front Of Images?

I am having some trouble trying to figure out how to put text on top of an image.

Now the obvious might be for me to use a paint program and then edit the words onto the picture that way but I want to add text for links and also add text on top of other pictures that I want to use throughout my website.

Its basic html I am using.

Can someone help in suggesting a way to do this if it can actually be done,

Many thanks in advance,

Aaron.

 

Make a table and put the image as a background image, then you can write whatever you want in the table cell above the image.

 

just define image as background. now you can write over it..

 

Define a div class with image in background for in CSS. E.g.:

div.bg {
	background-attachment: scroll;
	background-image: url(/img/bg.gif);
	background-repeat: repeat-x;
	background-position: left top;
...
}

Code (markup):

and then use this div in your html

<div class="bg">Text goes here</div>

HTML:

 

I've never tried this.