Here is the code I am currently working with:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Test</title>
<style type="text/css">
body {font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;}
.article {width:600px;}
.image_container {float:left;margin-right:10px;}
h1 {height:50px;line-height:50px;background:url(left.png) no-repeat 0 0;}
h1 span {display:block;padding:0 10px;background:url(right.png) no-repeat top right;}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="article">
<div class="image_container">
<img src="test.jpg" alt="test_img" />
</div>
<h1><span>Test heading</span></h1>
<p>
There are many variations of passages of Lorem Ipsum available, but the majority have suffered alteration in some form, by injected humour, or randomised words which don't look even slightly believable. If you are going to use a passage of Lorem Ipsum, you need to be sure there isn't anything embarrassing hidden in the middle of text. All the Lorem Ipsum generators on the Internet tend to repeat predefined chunks as necessary, making this the first true generator on the Internet. It uses a dictionary of over 200 Latin words, combined with a handful of model sentence structures, to generate Lorem Ipsum which looks reasonable. The generated Lorem Ipsum is therefore always free from repetition, injected humour, or non-characteristic words etc.
</p>
<p>
There are many variations of passages of Lorem Ipsum available, but the majority have suffered alteration in some form, by injected humour, or randomised words which don't look even slightly believable. If you are going to use a passage of Lorem Ipsum, you need to be sure there isn't anything embarrassing hidden in the middle of text. All the Lorem Ipsum generators on the Internet tend to repeat predefined chunks as necessary, making this the first true generator on the Internet. It uses a dictionary of over 200 Latin words, combined with a handful of model sentence structures, to generate Lorem Ipsum which looks reasonable. The generated Lorem Ipsum is therefore always free from repetition, injected humour, or non-characteristic words etc.
</p>
<h1><span>Test heading</span></h1>
<p>
There are many variations of passages of Lorem Ipsum available, but the majority have suffered alteration in some form, by injected humour, or randomised words which don't look even slightly believable. If you are going to use a passage of Lorem Ipsum, you need to be sure there isn't anything embarrassing hidden in the middle of text. All the Lorem Ipsum generators on the Internet tend to repeat predefined chunks as necessary, making this the first true generator on the Internet. It uses a dictionary of over 200 Latin words, combined with a handful of model sentence structures, to generate Lorem Ipsum which looks reasonable. The generated Lorem Ipsum is therefore always free from repetition, injected humour, or non-characteristic words etc.
</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>
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The Issue: I am encountering a problem where the image can have two different widths (3:2 ratio - horizontal or vertical), causing the background image behind the heading to overlap with the floated image.
Can anyone suggest a css solution that will ensure the background image starts where the heading text begins, preventing it from being covered by the floated image? It is important that the left rounded corners remain visible.
P.S.: While I am open to a JavaScript solution, I would prefer to resolve this issue using only css.