I wanted to ask you for your help. I fought with it for quite a long time but I couldn't come up with good solutions. This is my first project in Django and HTML/CSS/js so I am sorry in advance :P
I created two images that will help me explain my problem:
In this case, I have three images, png with alpha. The actual image is in red "I-1". The darker border is actual image size. By default they of course stack like that. And yellow is other stuff.
When I place them ether by position relative or absolute it looks like that:
And it is also quite logical why this happens. This is kinda what I want to achieve. But there are two/three problems:
1.1 - Other stuff for the website is way down, this looks weird and I don't like that.
1.2 - My jumbotron also is stretched way down.
2 - I have a different amount of images in various cases. Sometimes there are 3 of them and sometimes 5 of them. And each one of them I need to place a little bit different. That is a big problem for me.
I managed to create three types of them, when first(1) and last one(5) are always the same so it is cool, but 2, 3 and 4 in the middle needs a little bit different position.
I am new in Django, CSS, and HTML so to be honest, I don't even know how I should google that. I will be very grateful for any help and tips.
Thanks and Cheers!
I searched internet and experimented for some time. And right now my best solution is css "scale".
I went with for example:
#head {
scale: 3.5;
z-index: 5;
}
And it is working quite well! First I add small images (like 100px) and then scale them up in CSS. This way they are aligned nicely and also don't take much space below them. By scaling up my "I-1", "I-2" etc. from my examples are next to each other and they don't take space around them.
It is certainly not an very elegant solution but it works :)
Related
I am planning to create a little website(forum) with Quiz questions. So I had an idea to make cool borders in Photoshop(ice, fire, earth) and to implement them on the website. I don’t have any experience in creating live websites whatsoever, so I am interested to know what are the best practices for doing this? The problem is that questions could have anywhere from 10 to 100 words so I need different border sizes.
I currently have two ways of doing this, but neither really satisfies me.
1) Create different border sizes in photoshop and when posting questions check for character length and use appropriate border.
2) Create images with questions already, and post it like that.
I am also worried about the speed of the site. I realize that this is not a common practice, but is it doable? Any input or guide is appreciated.
The easy way to do this is with the CSS border-image property. You can create a square image with the borders you want and then add a CSS prroperty with the following format:
question-border{
border-image: url(<url of image on webserver>) <px size of border> <stretch/round>
}
Using stretch will stretch the middle part of the image, while using round will tile it.
The example on w3schools shows this well.
Complex Grid Layout, Help!
I'm making a responsive website using bootstrap 3.0.2 and can't figure out the layout that is stated in the requirements document for the project. I made an image of what I need, and will give more detail, or update my question, if needed. I am open to any suggestion on how to accomplish this.
The Issue
This image describes what I need the design to look like at three different widths.
I should add, each box will be basically a div with an image, article title and summary within it.
Like to say ... in advanced
Id like to say thanks and apologize in advanced if the question is dumb or the answer is obvious. I have been a dev for a long time, but I'm new to responsive design and I've been banging my head on the wall trying to get this to work
The problematic part of your project is to make two smaller blocks side with a bigger one and make these two 50%. As far as I know, there are no mature cross-browser solutions that would accomplish that without javascript.
You may want to take a look at: Flexbox and for Comrade IE Flexie.
Another approach to accomplish the same could be using viewport dimensions. Just be aware of the browsers support.
All in all, if you can do that, I would suggest just using JS, with a fallback to css that will not break the site's look too much. Having just finished a project with similar requirements, I would just like to say good luck.
I am currently working on a project that involves a background image that needs to be linked specifically to an element within a container div.
The link is: http://idearevolution.ca/clients/jab/
The challenge I am running into is that as I resize my screen the green circle doesn't stay behind the guy. I've run into issues with responsive background images having to work with elements within a contained area in the past, but I've never been happy with my solutions.
The last thing I tried was using Sass to run a loop, adding a media query to update the position every 10 - 20 pixels. I don't like this solution however because of the code bloat it generates.
I am wondering if anyone has run into this issue before and if so, how do you go about resolving it? I've tried a few things but I'm just not happy with any of the solutions.
Any help would be great.
Thanks,
Andrew
Semantics would fix this problem best.
The semantics of using an image is this:
If the Image does not add to the content and explanation of the site,
do not use the image.
So, in truth, this image looks like it should only be part of the design.
Therefore, use the CSS3 Feature of Multiple Backgrounds.
I am having an extremely odd issue creating a template for my zencart ecommerce website.
I find that many times I load the website my menu will break up and split over two lines as shown below.
The reason I find this behavior odd is that if I refresh the page it correctly displays.
Now I could understand how to fix this if it was consistently one way or the other but it seems to vary between the two with no obvious difference in the code... I am not sure if this is some sort of technical bug with chrome as I haven't been able to replicate it in other browsers however even if it is I really need a way of working around it. So I am curious as to whether anyone has had this issue before and if so how they got around it.
Link to live site: http://digitalmatrixonline.com.au/
Thanks Jason
If you add
white-space:nowrap;
To the div that contains the list it should prevent this, not sure why it's happening though.
Edit: here is a jsfiddle showing the technique http://jsfiddle.net/RM4S2/
Edit: No floats http://jsfiddle.net/BsGfu/2/
This is a really strange problem, and I was able to recreate the quirkiness in Chrome. While I don't know the direct cause of the issue, I think I found one way that works.
If you set the width of the second div within 'navEZpagesTop' that you are floating right that is wrapping,to 'width:485px;'. This seems to give the section room and does not wrap. If you want to leave more room for this expand without modifying the css you could set it to a much larger size, and float all the links inside of this to the right(instead of the left).
So this is my first time trying to use a responsive framework...also fairly new to building responsive sites in general - but had a lot more luck with just building them from scratch and sizing each element...though Foundation seems like a much better solution if I could just get my head around it!
Work in progress is here: http://client.analog.la/360/
It's behaving 'alright' in my desktop browsers (resizing down to 400) except for a problem with the menu - the issue I'm having is trying to get the menu to drop down below the logo and be properly centered.
On actual mobile and tablet having way more issues...the menu is sitting above and the whole layout or to one side and not dropping down at all. On ipad the whole layout seems to be only about 95% page width with a random margin down the right hand side...on iPhone the whole layout only seems to be about 50% width...which just looks...awful. There's so much discrepancy between how the layout looks on devices vs. how it looks on desktop at the same resolution that I'm a bit baffled...Also, really not sure where I went wrong with the sizing to make it look so wrong on devices!
Any help would be massively appreciated!
Thanks,
Not sure if you're still looking for help on this, but there are a number of issues in your codebase, and it's hard to say which ones are causing the behavior you're trying to address. Your very first div uses the columns class, but it's not nested in a row. Elsewhere, you have rows immediately nested in other rows with no apparent benefit, more columns nested in other columns without an interposing row, and nested rows that aren't set to collapse. You're also using spacer.png in a few places, which almost reduced me to tears.
And your top level headers are in spans instead of h1. My only guess here is that you were attempting to sidestep Foundation's default styles? Use a class. You need those h1s for SEO, semantics, etc.
No insult intended, but you might do well to check out Treehouse and sharpen your coding skills - could save you a lot of time and frustration in future work.