This is my first time posting here and I'm entirely self-taught, so bear with me please if I misspeak or say some dumb things.
I have a Wordpress blog. For quite some time, I have had my blog post format set up so that a "header image" displays across the width of the content space. Across the bottom of that image, I list the title of the post and the date.
To do this, I created what I believe is called a class -- I named it "container" and the only defining trait of this class is that it has "position: relative;" inside it's brackets. (It also has a "shadow" border. I tried taking this out and it had no effect.) This was done in the "additional CSS" section of the wordpress site.
.container {
position: relative;
box-shadow: 1px -1px 7px rgba(0,0,0,0.8);
}
I also made a class called "text-block" that is defined as follows:
.text-block {
position: absolute;
bottom: 0px;
right: 0px;
left: 0px;
background-color: rgba(128,128,128,0.6);
color: white;
padding-top: 10px;
padding-left: 10px;
padding-right: 10px;
padding-bottom: 0px;
}
Each post begins with opening a container. Then, immediately inside of the container is the image, with the width set to 100%. Then, still in the container, I put the text-block in, which is oriented across the bottom. The background color is opaque so that you still see the image behind the text, slightly greyed out.
Here is the code that begins the post of which I've attached a screenshot:
<div class="container"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-8056 size-full" style="width: 100%;" src="https://*mysite*/wp-content/uploads/thx-1138-film-confession.png" alt="Robert Duvall as THX 1138" width="831" height="364">
<div class="text-block">
<h2 style="color: white;"><em>THX 1138</em></h2>
<h6 style="color: white;">Review by *me* | November 6, 2020</h6>
</div>
</div>
The crucial part that I need to ask some advice on is the bottom edge of the container. Until recently, the bottom edges of the image, the text-block, and the container all coincided. Now, instead, a small amount of excess "padding" was added to the bottom of the container. So now, the text-block overlaps the image and some un-filled space beneath it, as you can see in the image. I can't seem to attach a second image of what it should look like, but I think it is clear what I'm trying to achieve.
I don't know where this excess "padding" came from. I didn't change anything -- no CSS was changed. I was just writing individual posts, copy-pasting the format from an old post to a new one to get the correct formatting. I was previewing a single new post when I realized the change, and I thought that I had messed something up on that individual post. But then I started clicking through my site and realized every single post now showed the error.
In the past, some other weird formatting things have happened that stemmed from a plug-in. I've deactivated all plug-ins and the issue remained. I've taken the text-block out entirely and the excess "padding" remains.
Like I said, I'm self-taught. I've really only learned things as I needed to know them. So it's possible I'm missing something simple or committing some grave error without knowing it. But it seems to me that my container lacks the definition that would cause it to be larger than an exact fit to what I put inside of it. Further, the fact that I did not change any of the underlying definitions seems to indicate it's some other kind of issue. But I don't know where it could be stemming from.
I would appreciate any help to figure this out!
UPDATE:
First, Akhilesh, thank you for the reply. Your suggestions did not directly lead to a solution but they at least got me into the spirit of trial and error.
I have found two "solutions" to this problem.
The first is to set "line-height: 0px;" inside of the container in "Additional CSS." This isn't ideal because it means that I can't type regular text in this container anymore. Not very elegant.
The second kind of seems like a fluke. As I showed above, my posts begin with:
<div class="container">**here**<img class="aligncenter wp-image-8056 size-full" style="width: 100%;" src="https://*mysite*/wp-content/uploads/thx-1138-film-confession.png" alt="Robert Duvall as THX 1138" width="831" height="364">
That is a single, unbroken line of code. By starting a new line where I indicate above, it solves the issue. As I stated in my initial description, I have not changed anything. All my posts have been like this since I decided on the format. And as Akhilesh stated, it works in the fiddler (which was a new tool for me, so thanks again).
So, problem solved, but what changed to cause the issue? Something in the way that Wordpress interprets HTML code?
Try adding this to the img element : display:block;
Also, try to find whether there's any padding/margin set for the h2 and h6 elements.
Because I don't see any issues when I tried. Here's the fiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/vL80u1a2/
If that didn't helped, try using the Developer Tools in your browser. Just right click on the element and choose Inspect Element. Then when you select an element on the left side, all CSS would appear on the right pane. You can try trouble shooting for the padding using that Developer Tools.
Have a look at this for more details on how to use the Developer Tools: https://developers.google.com/web/tools/chrome-devtools/css
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I wanted to use a span element to style some text, but for some reason when I enter that code it will on the right side of the page show that scroll bar. It's not like that default scroll bar you will find on Google Chrome; it's really short, and when I move it it moves my text up and down for some reason.
I don't know how to fix that. I have tried reducing the padding, adding <br> at the end, etc.
This is the code:
<p>And that's it! You can play around a bit more with CSS and then move to <span style="background-color: orange; color: #fff; padding: 2px;">Day 4 - Text Areas & Input Fields</span> for further lessons!</p>
I have restricted my text to a border on the page, so it looks better, but it can't have anything to do with my problem since I haven't had it before and I've been using this border tactic for a while now. And as well I know the button "My other articles" isn't linked to anything--I'll add the link later. I just need help with this one problem.
Thanks to whomever helps me out with this in advance.
It seems to be rendering correctly for me (Chrome on Linux):
I'd suggest you update your answer with a screenshot of what's happening.
The best thing to try in this scenario is to add the following CSS to your code if it's not working for you:
span {
overflow: visible;
}
Since you're doing inline CSS (you don't appear to have a linked stylesheet), you probably want something like this as your full code:
<p>And that's it! You can play around a bit more with CSS and then move to <span style="background-color: orange; color: #fff; padding: 2px; overflow: visible;">Day 4 - Text Areas & Input Fields</span> for further lessons!</p>
overflow: visible; ensures that the element doesn't show scrollbars. In most cases (such as if this rule is applied to a <div>), then text inside the element will visually overflow if the element is a fixed size. The <span> isn't a fixed size (it grows as text is added), and so text won't appear as overflowing. Hopefully, though, it should solve the scrollbar problem.
Alternatively, you could try using overflow: hidden; which will hide the overflow entirely. Try experimenting with either visible or hidden and see if your code works!
More info about overflow: overflow - CSS: Cascading Style Sheets | MDN
It's not like that default scroll bar you will find on Google Chrome; it's really short, and when I move it it moves my text up and down for some reason.
Try also applying the CSS to the <p> element as well/instead, or even the <body>. The <span> may or may not be the element that's experiencing the overflow issue, after all. Your question is admittedly worded quite vaguely for us to tell how the problem manifests.
Edit 3: I guess this is solved. I just enabled the Gutenberg editor and discovered its "Classic editor" part, the Code Editor. The only thing I have to get used to is the editor's line-height that I can't easily modify, which isn't bad. This is working for me and it outweighs the need to modify functions.php or other complicated things like that (to me). Thank you.
[Disclaimer: I'm not a developer of any sort, but willing to take the time. (Can do a bit of CSS.) Also, new to this forum.]
I’m using Anders Norén’s Hemingway theme.
I haven’t tried creating child themes yet and I’m not sure whether a solution to this requires one.
My goal, in short, is to make the whole “Edit Post” webpage look like an offline word processor:
Make the Visual editor occupy the whole screen. (I use the classic
editor.) (Done: Collapsed the vertical menu on the left side,
selected 1-column layout, and disabled “full height editor and
distraction-free functionality.”)
Set a width for the text (because currently text is almost from edge
to edge of screen)
Put text at the center (but “aligned left,” not “justified”). This
is for the "left and right margins," within the post editor.
How do I do #2 and #3?
Thank you.
Edit: Just to clarify: I'm looking to change how the Visual editor looks--only the Visual editor, not any output the live website would show.
Edit 2:
I can replicate what Balázs Varga showed, but (I'm sorry I should I have said this earlier) it doesn't work after I save the code on "Additional CSS." (And after clearing all caches.) I used the id #tinymce.
My browser (Firefox Developer) shows the changes in real time while I fiddle with the Inspector, but not after I save the additional CSS. That's weird, I think, and I think I can handle CSS pretty well: the theme Hemingway on my site doesn't look like the original Hemingway anymore, but all changes were made only through Additional CSS.
Searches on Google showed me that I might need to edit "functions.php"(?), but I don't know how that works for now, and I thought there might be another way in 2019. I avoid editing "complicated" things like that (to me), unless Wordpress makes it hard for me to break things, like with "Additional CSS," for example.
On the Inspector, I can solve it with something like this:
#tinymce {
margin-left: 300px;
margin-right: 300px;
}
I wonder why this isn't a "feature" of the Visual editor already. Would be really nice. It could eliminate the need for word processors or third party editors (at least for "words only" writers like me).
You can inspect the element in your browser, so you can see that it's a tinymce iframe with the id content_ifr.
If you want to set the width in pixels, you could do:
#content_ifr {
position: relative;
max-width: 600px;
left: 50%;
transform: translate(-50%, 0);
}
left:50% alongside with position:relative will push the element to the center horizontally. However it will push the left side to the center, so you also need a horizontal transform set to -50%, so it's pulled back to the correct position (because percents in transforms are counted from the size of the element itself, not from it's parent like left does)
You should see something like this:
If you want to set the width in percents, you can simply apply a margin-left to center the element:
#content_ifr {
width: 80%;
margin-left: 10%; // set this value to: (100 - width) / 2
}
EDIT
You can also edit your functions.php to append your styles to the page, for example in the header area with the admin_head hook:
function hook_css() {
?>
<style>
#content_ifr {
position: relative;
max-width: 600px;
left: 50%;
transform: translate(-50%, 0);
}
</style>
<?php
}
add_action('admin_head', 'hook_css');
Right, so, I've been informed by a usually high-quality, reliable source that best practice when creating linked images that also include text is as follows:
Create some placeholder text inside the anchor element like this:
<a class="logoWithText" href="logoWithText.raw">Mr Happy Forever Foobar</a>
Change the element CSS to indent this text outside the viewing window:
.logoWithText {
background-image: logoWithText;
width = 200px;
height = 100px;
display: inline-block;
text-indent: -9999px;
}
The idea is that without doing this, if CSS is turned off on a user's machine, or they are trying to look at it with a screen reader, they're going to have problems viewing the image. But this way they will only see the text if CSS is switched off, and it will be positioned correctly.
But what if the image fails to load for some reason but they do have CSS switched on? The user is not going to see the placeholder text at all... and I'm also pretty uneasy about the whole put the text all of the way off the screen, as far as it can go as it seems pretty inelegant and I am worried there are likely to be all sort of unforeseen problems with writing code that's totally against the logic of the language in this way.
Can anyone suggest a solution which would account for both broken image links and a lack of CSS support on a user's device, and which would be more immediately intuitive to people viewing the code? If there's really no other way of doing this or you guys think my approach is totally wrong or whatever that's ok, I just want to know if I'm going about things the right way.
Why not
Html
<a href="http://yoururl.com" class="logo--text">
<img src="zoidberg.jpg" alt="This is the text that shows up when your image is broken">
</a>
CSS
.logo--text{ width:200px; height:100px; }
I'm putting a floating picture on my friends blog real quick, but changing the margin values doesn't do anything.
#pic{
z-index:9999999999999999;
position:fixed;
width:200px;
background-color: transparent;}
And the structure:
<div style="margin-bottom:0px;" id="pic" ><img src="{image:Sidepicture}" style="width:200px;"</a></div>
When I change the margin values, the picture stays at the top left hand corner no matter what I do.
The culprit is likely position: fixed;
#pic{
z-index:9999999999999999;
position:fixed;
width:200px;
background-color: transparent;}
Is this all the code there is for pic? It seems that #pic is stuck to top: 0, left: 0
Try just removing the position: fixed line entirely and see what happens
If doesn't work out, also try adding position:relative;
Because you should be putting the margin on the <img />, not on the <div> surrounding the image (#pic).
#pic img { margin: 20px; }
... will do what you want it to.
The very least you should have done is validate that your HTML and CSS are actually valid. There are many errors in the code and style that you supplied. Unclosed Tags, Closed tags, Unmatched elements, styles without contents, invalid styles, Incorrect declarations and so on.
Its also a bit of a jumbled mess, with interwoven styles and script and parts of reset scripts towards the end, all sprinkled through with optional block and cycle contents, making helping you very difficult. Keeping your style separate from your code and grouping it into one block would help you narrow it down a bit as right now styles are all over the file, making it easy for anyone to miss the offending line.
I can only suggest that one of the later styles in your CSS after the style for img you are trying to apply. (somewhere after line 152) is overriding the margin that you are setting at 152. You can use the developer tools built into the browser and look at which styles are being applied to your element and which line in the file they come from. If your pix style is not applied then you will at least have an idea what other styles are and this will allow you to narrow down your investigation.
another way to find the offending line would be to to comment out the styles after line 152 and then comment them back in a few at a time, until you find the class causing the issue.
The quick and dirty fix is of course to put !important after your margin
You can also run your page through the CSS Validation and HTML validation to help you find any of the errors that may also be having an effect.
When i open my site in firefox it shows img alt attribute in a black box(see attached image).
it only shows just for a second and when image starts loading its gone.
i want to remove this.
this is my html code
<img alt="alt text" width="650" height="241" src="src url" />
it only shows in firefox.
i have tried using this css code
a img {
border: 0;
}
but this did not help.
how i can remove this?
The short answer is that you can't. The longer answer is that you shouldn't.
You are approaching this in an entirely wrong manner. Expectedly, I guess - in this day and age not many care to think why tag attributes like ALT exist at all, and why Firefox bothers with borders before it renders images. But you should know these things if you want to be serious about web design. They are there for a reason. It is because people are different and user agents are different - some people cannot even see images that well, while they either may read or are read to the page contents by a screen reader, which cannot discern pixel content all that well. Also, in some scenarios (academic, scientific), user agents are configured to ignore images, only displaying ALT content, focusing on textual content instead.
If you take the above into consideration, you can make decisions based on these facts - what does your image actually do? Is it important for your users to see it at all? If it is indeed a picture that is at the heart of it, then you shouldn't bother with how it will be shown to your users - rest assured, they will see it and hopefully be happy.
The IMG element is for image-based data that is part of the content of the document you serve, not part of its style. This is an absolutely essential knowledge, that many never think about. Separators, hyperlink icons before A elements, huge banners on top of your pages, buttons for forms - all this is not part of content, it seldom carries meaning to the reader. That alone decides if these should be put in there with say, CSS instead. You use IMG element for photos, drawings, logos, illustrations and such.
In other words, if it is a decorative part of your web page design, you should instead think whether a background image will do - it will also eliminate your border and ALT problem entirely.
This is all you can do - no CSS will and should rob the user of your page(s) of accessibility just because you don't like borders. Remember - your webpages are not your webpages, they are viewed by your users. Same goes for user agents - they use theirs, and they prefer to set it up their way. Whether you yourself like borders is of little value or concern to them. Give them possibility to make the best use of them. Graphic design is indirectly about compromise - we want to better convey a message of our choosing using methods we have available, while respecting their choices and preferences. Web-design is much because of this a walk on the edge of a knife.
<div style="background-image: url(forest.jpg); width: 600px; height: 200px;">
Tree hugging, anyone?
</div>
I know it's an old question but here is 2017 update with CSS only solution using pseudo elements.
img:after {
content: attr(alt);
position: absolute;
z-index: 2;
top: 0;
left: 0;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
background-color: #fff;
}
<img src="//placehold.foo/200x200" alt="Remove border from this alt text" />