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HTML

<div class="container">
  <a class="snippet" href="#">
    <img class="example-image" src="example-image.png">
    <div class="snippet-text-section">
      <div class="snippet-title">Title for the item - could be one or two lines long</div>
      <div class="snippet-text">Rest of the text, filling the remaining space.</div>
    </div>
  </a>
</div>

CSS

* {
    padding: 0;
    margin: 0;
}

.container{
    position:relative;
}

.snippet {
    display: block;
    border-radius: 5px;
    background-color: #ddd;
    color:black;
    overflow:hidden;
}

img {
    max-width: 100%;
    vertical-align: middle;
    display: inline-block;
    height:100px;

}

.example-image {
    width: 100%;
    background-color: #111;
}

.date {
    position: absolute;
    top: -20px;
    background-color: #1b1f52;
    font-weight: bold;
    padding:0px 2px;
    color: white;
}

.snippet-text-section {
    padding: 0px 0px;
    position: absolute;
    top: 0;
    width: 100%;
    height: 100%;
    overflow: hidden;
    border-radius: 0px 0px 4px 4px;
}

.snippet-title {
    margin-bottom: 0;
    font-size: 14px;
    font-weight: 700;
    background-color: rgba(255,0,0,0.8);
    color: white;
    padding: 0 5px;
    border-radius: 0px 5px 0px 0px;
}

.snippet-text {
    font-size: 20px;
    line-height: 25px;
    background-color: rgba(0,0,255,0.8);
    color: white;
    height: 100%;
    padding: 0 5px 100px;
    margin-bottom: -100px;
    border-radius: 0px 0px 5px 5px;
}