Before we all had cameras in our phones, people could take a Polaroid® photo which would print directly from the camera, and had a unique, framed look.
This framed look can be used to show photos in an interesting way on certain sites, such as a vacation sites, zoo sites, or photo-oriented sites just to name a few.
HTML
<figure class="polaroid">
<img decoding="async" src="/images/fantasy-beach.jpg" alt="Fantasy Beach" />
<figcaption class="polaroid_title">Fantasy Beach</figcaption>
</figure>
CSS
figure.polaroid {
background-color: white;
border: #ffffff solid 10px;
border-top-width: 14px;
box-shadow: 4px 4px 8px 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2);
transform: rotate(1deg);
}
figure.polaroid img {
width: 100%;
}
figcaption.polaroid_title {
text-align: center;
padding: 25px 20px 1%;
}
Notice that we slightly rotate the image to give it that “tossed in place” look. If you have multiple photos spread out down a page of text, you may want to put a different rotate angle on each so they don’t look so uniformly placed.
Example
Fantasy Beach
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