how to display text over an image in Bootstrap 3.1

Answer 1

You will need to paste additional css to give us an idea of what you're dealing with exactly, but here's my 2 cents anyway:

1) Start by placing the image and the text in something that will contain them both:

    
    

        

            
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(Careful, your original code has an extra )

2) Add absolute positioning + z-index:

.imageAndText {position: relative;} 
.imageAndText .col {position: absolute; z-index: 1; top: 0; left: 0;}

Here's a jsFiddle illustrating: http://jsfiddle.net/sX982/