I inserted an image in my CSS code its a big box, in my HTML code I wraped in a DIV tag, is there any way to position text in that box, by default it goes on the bottom, I want to put it in the upper part of it.

elements including text will appear in the order they are in the source unless you position them differently.

if you want to overlay text on an image, you would set the image as a background.

I did that. There is also a placeholder image inside the div tag, I want the text to be in the upper right side of that image. Can that be done?

placeholder image? explain what you mean

better still, some code and maybe an image of what you WANT to achieve

HTML:
<div id="background_image">

<center><img src="placeholder_box.gif" /></center>


</div>

CSS:
#background_image{ background-image:url(hosteagle_background2.jpg)}


I would like to put text to the upper right of the placeholder_box with in the background

get rid of the deprecated <center> tags for a start.

<div id="background_image">
<span>Some text</span>
<img src="placeholder_box.gif" />
</div>

#background_image { 
   background-image:url(hosteagle_background2.jpg)
}
#background_image span {
    float:right;
}
#background_image img {
   display:block;
   margin:0 auto;
}

looks about right, assuming I have interpreted your idea correctly

Question - why would you use a <span> in there when you could apply that css to a heading Hx tag or even a <p> in there ??

Originally Posted by LadynRed

Question - why would you use a <span> in there when you could apply that css to a heading Hx tag or even a <p> in there ??

No particular reason at all

As you say any container would do. Which container element would primarily depend on the use the text was being put to of course.
And it doesn't really need an extra element if it is just for text, applying text-align:right on the parent element would have the same effect.