ContentMediaText

MediaText

Side-by-side media and text layouts. Images within the rune are extracted into a media column, and the remaining text forms the body column. Control image placement, size ratio, and text wrapping.

Basic usage

Place an image alongside text — the image is automatically extracted and placed according to the align attribute.

{% mediatext align="left" ratio="1:1" %}
![Mountain landscape](https://assets.refrakt.md/media-text-valley.jpg)

The valley stretches out below, carved by millennia of glacial movement. In spring, wildflowers carpet the meadows in brilliant color, attracting hikers and photographers from around the world.

The trails here range from gentle walks suitable for families to challenging ridge climbs that reward with panoramic views.
{% /mediatext %}
<div data-rune="media-text" data-rune-fields="{&quot;align&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;ratio&quot;:&quot;1:1&quot;}">
  <div data-name="media">
    <img src="https://assets.refrakt.md/media-text-valley.jpg" alt="Mountain landscape">
  </div>
  <div data-name="body">
    <p>The valley stretches out below, carved by millennia of glacial movement. In spring, wildflowers carpet the meadows in brilliant color, attracting hikers and photographers from around the world.</p>
    <p>The trails here range from gentle walks suitable for families to challenging ridge climbs that reward with panoramic views.</p>
  </div>
</div>
Mountain landscape

The valley stretches out below, carved by millennia of glacial movement. In spring, wildflowers carpet the meadows in brilliant color, attracting hikers and photographers from around the world.

The trails here range from gentle walks suitable for families to challenging ridge climbs that reward with panoramic views.

<div class="rf-mediatext rf-mediatext--left rf-mediatext--1:1" data-align="left" data-ratio="1:1" data-rune="media-text" data-density="full">
  <div data-name="media" class="rf-mediatext__media" data-section="media" data-media="cover" data-guest-fit="clip">
    <img src="https://assets.refrakt.md/media-text-valley.jpg" alt="Mountain landscape" />
  </div>
  <div data-name="body" class="rf-mediatext__body" data-section="body">
    <p>The valley stretches out below, carved by millennia of glacial movement. In spring, wildflowers carpet the meadows in brilliant color, attracting hikers and photographers from around the world.</p>
    <p>The trails here range from gentle walks suitable for families to challenging ridge climbs that reward with panoramic views.</p>
  </div>
</div>

Image on the right

Flip the layout by setting align="right".

{% mediatext align="right" ratio="1:2" %}
![Ancient forest](https://assets.refrakt.md/media-text-old-growth.jpg)

Old-growth forests like this one in the Pacific Northwest contain trees over 500 years old, forming dense canopies that filter sunlight into soft, dappled patterns on the forest floor. The thick understory of ferns and moss supports an ecosystem found nowhere else on earth.

Walking through these forests feels like stepping back in time. The silence is broken only by birdsong and the occasional crack of a falling branch, while the air carries the rich scent of cedar and damp earth.
{% /mediatext %}
<div data-rune="media-text" data-rune-fields="{&quot;align&quot;:&quot;right&quot;,&quot;ratio&quot;:&quot;1:2&quot;}">
  <div data-name="media">
    <img src="https://assets.refrakt.md/media-text-old-growth.jpg" alt="Ancient forest">
  </div>
  <div data-name="body">
    <p>Old-growth forests like this one in the Pacific Northwest contain trees over 500 years old, forming dense canopies that filter sunlight into soft, dappled patterns on the forest floor. The thick understory of ferns and moss supports an ecosystem found nowhere else on earth.</p>
    <p>Walking through these forests feels like stepping back in time. The silence is broken only by birdsong and the occasional crack of a falling branch, while the air carries the rich scent of cedar and damp earth.</p>
  </div>
</div>
Ancient forest

Old-growth forests like this one in the Pacific Northwest contain trees over 500 years old, forming dense canopies that filter sunlight into soft, dappled patterns on the forest floor. The thick understory of ferns and moss supports an ecosystem found nowhere else on earth.

Walking through these forests feels like stepping back in time. The silence is broken only by birdsong and the occasional crack of a falling branch, while the air carries the rich scent of cedar and damp earth.

<div class="rf-mediatext rf-mediatext--right rf-mediatext--1:2" data-align="right" data-ratio="1:2" data-rune="media-text" data-density="full">
  <div data-name="media" class="rf-mediatext__media" data-section="media" data-media="cover" data-guest-fit="clip">
    <img src="https://assets.refrakt.md/media-text-old-growth.jpg" alt="Ancient forest" />
  </div>
  <div data-name="body" class="rf-mediatext__body" data-section="body">
    <p>Old-growth forests like this one in the Pacific Northwest contain trees over 500 years old, forming dense canopies that filter sunlight into soft, dappled patterns on the forest floor. The thick understory of ferns and moss supports an ecosystem found nowhere else on earth.</p>
    <p>Walking through these forests feels like stepping back in time. The silence is broken only by birdsong and the occasional crack of a falling branch, while the air carries the rich scent of cedar and damp earth.</p>
  </div>
</div>

Text wrapping

Enable wrap for text that flows around the image rather than staying in a strict column.

{% mediatext align="left" ratio="2:1" wrap=true %}
![Japanese zen garden](https://assets.refrakt.md/media-text-zen-garden.jpg)

The Japanese zen garden, or *karesansui*, is an art form centuries in the making. Raked gravel represents flowing water, while carefully placed stones suggest mountains rising from the sea. Bonsai trees — shaped over decades of patient pruning — anchor the composition with gnarled trunks and delicate canopies that echo their full-sized counterparts in miniature.

In spring, cherry blossoms drift across the garden like pink snow, settling on the raked patterns and dissolving the boundary between the designed and the natural. The transience of the blossoms is central to the experience — a reminder that beauty is most vivid in its passing. Visitors often sit in silence on the wooden engawa, watching petals fall, letting the stillness of the garden quiet the mind.
{% /mediatext %}
<div data-rune="media-text" data-rune-fields="{&quot;align&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;ratio&quot;:&quot;2:1&quot;,&quot;wrap&quot;:&quot;true&quot;}">
  <div data-name="media">
    <img src="https://assets.refrakt.md/media-text-zen-garden.jpg" alt="Japanese zen garden">
  </div>
  <div data-name="body">
    <p>
      The Japanese zen garden, or
      <em marker="*">karesansui</em>
      , is an art form centuries in the making. Raked gravel represents flowing water, while carefully placed stones suggest mountains rising from the sea. Bonsai trees — shaped over decades of patient pruning — anchor the composition with gnarled trunks and delicate canopies that echo their full-sized counterparts in miniature.
    </p>
    <p>In spring, cherry blossoms drift across the garden like pink snow, settling on the raked patterns and dissolving the boundary between the designed and the natural. The transience of the blossoms is central to the experience — a reminder that beauty is most vivid in its passing. Visitors often sit in silence on the wooden engawa, watching petals fall, letting the stillness of the garden quiet the mind.</p>
  </div>
</div>
Japanese zen garden

The Japanese zen garden, or karesansui, is an art form centuries in the making. Raked gravel represents flowing water, while carefully placed stones suggest mountains rising from the sea. Bonsai trees — shaped over decades of patient pruning — anchor the composition with gnarled trunks and delicate canopies that echo their full-sized counterparts in miniature.

In spring, cherry blossoms drift across the garden like pink snow, settling on the raked patterns and dissolving the boundary between the designed and the natural. The transience of the blossoms is central to the experience — a reminder that beauty is most vivid in its passing. Visitors often sit in silence on the wooden engawa, watching petals fall, letting the stillness of the garden quiet the mind.

<div class="rf-mediatext rf-mediatext--left rf-mediatext--2:1 rf-mediatext--true" data-align="left" data-ratio="2:1" data-wrap="true" data-rune="media-text" data-density="full">
  <div data-name="media" class="rf-mediatext__media" data-section="media" data-media="cover" data-guest-fit="clip">
    <img src="https://assets.refrakt.md/media-text-zen-garden.jpg" alt="Japanese zen garden" />
  </div>
  <div data-name="body" class="rf-mediatext__body" data-section="body">
    <p>
      The Japanese zen garden, or 
      <em marker="*">karesansui</em>
      , is an art form centuries in the making. Raked gravel represents flowing water, while carefully placed stones suggest mountains rising from the sea. Bonsai trees — shaped over decades of patient pruning — anchor the composition with gnarled trunks and delicate canopies that echo their full-sized counterparts in miniature.
    </p>
    <p>In spring, cherry blossoms drift across the garden like pink snow, settling on the raked patterns and dissolving the boundary between the designed and the natural. The transience of the blossoms is central to the experience — a reminder that beauty is most vivid in its passing. Visitors often sit in silence on the wooden engawa, watching petals fall, letting the stillness of the garden quiet the mind.</p>
  </div>
</div>

Attributes

AttributeTypeRequiredDescription
align"left" | "right"Side the media appears on
ratio"1:2" | "1:1" | "2:1"Width ratio between media and text
wrapbooleanWrap text around the media

Universal attributes

bg

The background layer (SPEC-088): image, video, gradient, flat overlay wash and legibility scrim, in a single injected layer behind the rune's content.

AttributeTypeRequiredDescription
bgstringBackground preset applied to this block
bg-fromstringGradient start colour — a semantic token name (→ var(--rf-color-*))
bg-gradient"to-t" | "to-b" | "to-l" | "to-r" | "to-tr" | "to-br" | "to-bl" | "to-tl"Gradient direction (bounded named set)
bg-gradient-type"linear" | "radial" | "conic"Gradient type
bg-tostringGradient end colour — a semantic token name
bg-viastringOptional middle gradient stop — a semantic token name
scrim"top" | "bottom" | "left" | "right" | "none"Scrim direction (heaviest edge); presence turns the scrim on, "none" opts out of the default cover scrim
scrim-blur"none" | "sm" | "md" | "lg"Frost scrim blur amount
scrim-strength"sm" | "md" | "lg"Gradient scrim strength
scrim-tone"dark" | "light"Whether the scrim darkens (for light text) or lightens (for dark text)
scrim-type"gradient" | "frost"Scrim treatment: gradient (default) or frost (backdrop blur)
dropcap

Per-instance drop-cap opt-in (SPEC-108).

AttributeTypeRequiredDescription
dropcapbooleanStyle the opening letter of a prose body as a drop cap (SPEC-108). Honoured only when the body reads as prose; ignored otherwise.
elevation

The chrome/depth ladder (SPEC-107). The skin maps each rung to a chrome bundle by attribute, so there is no BEM class.

AttributeTypeRequiredDescription
elevation"sunken" | "flush" | "flat" | "raised" | "floating" | "overlay" | "none" | "sm" | "md" | "lg"Surface depth on the SPEC-107 ladder (sunken→overlay); none/sm/md/lg are deprecated aliases
frame

Surface chrome (SPEC-086): a named preset from the theme registry with inline `frame-*` overrides layered on top.

AttributeTypeRequiredDescription
framestringNamed frame preset presenting this block's media surface
frame-anchorstringCrop focal point when the guest is cut (object-position)
frame-aspectstringAspect ratio of the framed media, e.g. "16/9"
frame-displace"top" | "bottom" | "end" | "bottom-end" | "top-end"Edge/corner the framed guest moves toward
frame-displace-mode"peek" | "bleed"How displacement renders: `peek` (default) translates the guest visually inside its frame target; `bleed` uses negative margin on the media zone so following layout pulls up — extends past a section like a hero without leaving a gap above
frame-offset"none" | "sm" | "md" | "lg" | "xl" | "2xl" | "3xl" | "4xl"Displacement distance (non-linear named scale: sm…xl ride the block-spacing tokens, 2xl/3xl/4xl step up to section-spacing for bleed-mode displacements that clear a section edge)
frame-overflow"clip" | "bleed"How the frame handles a guest whose content is wider than it: `clip` (default) keeps it inside the rounded frame; `bleed` runs an overflowing guest out to the layout edge on a narrow viewport so it reads as cropped by the screen (a bleed host only — hero/feature)
frame-oversizestringHow far the guest exceeds its slot (scale factor)
frame-placestringGuest-box alignment in the slot (e.g. "left top")
frame-shadow"none" | "sm" | "md" | "lg"Silhouette drop-shadow strength for the framed media
inset

Internal padding override.

AttributeTypeRequiredDescription
inset"flush" | "tight" | "default" | "loose" | "breathe"Inner padding of this block
motion

Scroll-reveal entrance (SPEC-105). The author declares the character, the theme owns the choreography, a behaviour owns the timing.

AttributeTypeRequiredDescription
reveal"none" | "fade" | "slide" | "scale" | "blur"Scroll-reveal entrance character (none|fade|slide|scale|blur); the theme owns the choreography
staggerbooleanCascade this block's items in as it reveals (no-op on single-child runes)
reading

Editorial register for body text (SPEC-108). The author picks the register; the theme owns the magnitude.

AttributeTypeRequiredDescription
reading"fine" | "ui" | "prose"Reading register for this block’s body (SPEC-108): fine | ui | prose. The theme owns the editorial treatment.
spacing

Block-level rhythm override.

AttributeTypeRequiredDescription
spacing"flush" | "tight" | "default" | "loose" | "breathe"Vertical spacing above and below this block
substrate

Generated pattern fills (SPEC-087). Markers only — the engine sets the attributes and cell/opacity custom properties, CSS draws the pattern.

AttributeTypeRequiredDescription
substrate"dots" | "grid" | "lines" | "cross" | "checker" | "none"Generated surface pattern
substrate-fill"inherit" | "inset"Surface fill the pattern sits on (full colour stays with tint)
substrate-opacity"sm" | "md" | "lg"Pattern ink strength
substrate-size"sm" | "md" | "lg"Pattern cell size
substrate-target"self" | "media"Which surface the pattern fills (overrides the rune/theme default)
tint

Per-rune colour override (SPEC-053): a named tint from the theme registry, with inline per-token overrides layered on top.

AttributeTypeRequiredDescription
tintstringColor tint preset applied to this block
tint-mode"auto" | "dark" | "light"Whether the tint adapts to auto, dark, or light mode
width

The track a block rune occupies.

AttributeTypeRequiredDescription
width"compact" | "narrow" | "content" | "wide" | "full"Maximum width constraint for this block
Not availableWhy
prominencethis rune has no page-section header