How to create text around a circle (Circle of Fifths) - html

Level of expertise in HTML & CSS: Beginner
Goal: Use HTML & CSS to add text that surrounds the outside of a circle just like this one:
Circle of Fifths
Progress: https://codepen.io/annieg4123/pen/GGPayQ
Issue: When I position one letter, it affects the positioning of the others. For instance, if I add left: 855px;to #Gb-Fsharp, the position of #C is changed.
Question: Why does this happen? Is my current way of positioning the letters incorrect? If so, what should I do instead?

You have to give the right id to the CSS file and give the fixed position of letters.
I created a sample of your issue https://codepen.io/anon/pen/bKOyKQ
#circle {
border: 1px solid black;
border-radius: 50%;
padding-bottom: 30%.......

Your text got shifted because you are using relative positioning. Whenever you will add new text it will align according to that text. Suppose you have a text left-align:50px to then if you add new text in between then it will shift all the older texts and elements. so you have to give fixed position or absolute position to the text and elements.

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Rotating text via the use of <p> & some CSS transforms, makes text wrap

I need to display text vertically in a rowspan within a table. The technique I'm using via CSS seems to "work", but the width of the <p> element can't be changed or else the text wraps to the next line and its not pretty.
Take a look at this jsfiddle I put together in order to replicate my issue.
http://jsfiddle.net/wn4ofcwx/
Any alternatives here? Or possible a fix to my current CSS.
Note: Probably doesn't matter but I'm using the INK Framework (similar
to bootstrap).
Actually I figured it out, it was as simple as using white-space: nowrap;
Which I completely forgot about!
http://jsfiddle.net/wn4ofcwx/7/
The text doesn't wrap because we are explicitly stating nowrap, you can re size the window to see how it keeps its position, now I can apply a width of just 10px to take away all that excessive white space in the rowspan.
Check this out: http://jsfiddle.net/wn4ofcwx/4/
What I added to the class .rotate-vertical:
display: block;
margin: auto auto;
height: 17px;
And I took out : Width: 50px;
Cheers
Actually you can keep out the : display: block;
The p element is already a display: block by default and you didn't overwrite it anywhere.

Button's position drops when having an element before it

I have a div which have a text and then a button. but the button's position drops down by a few pixels when I add an element before it.
The html:
<div id="profile-header-bottom">
<span id="thetitle">My website</span><button class="action-button">Add to friends</button>
</div>
The css:
#profile-header-bottom{position:relative;width:935px;height:40px;background-color:#F0F0FF;margin:auto;padding-left:10px;}
#thetitle{font-family:arial;font-size:25px;}
.action-button{border:1px solid #000080;background-color:#AAAACC;}
that's the result I get:
the only way I can make the button positioned correctly at the top of the div is to give it an absolute position. that's the result I want:
How can I obtain this result without making the button's position absolute?
Try this:
span, button {
vertical-align: middle;
}
The correct code for this would be:
.action-button {
/*
Insert rest of css.
*/
vertical-align: middle;
}
EDIT: It works by setting both of the 'anchor point' to the middle of the object, rather than wherever it is by default. So with the code above you put the two middle points against each other, instead of two random points.
I added a MS Paint picture explaining it further.
You can use the css item:
vertical-align:middle
and put it in the button's class or style tag and then add it to the text

Fixing html and css

First.. How do i fix this:
http://jsfiddle.net/kLjcq/
I am seeing this properly formatted on my browser..!
http://picpaste.com/pics/Screenshot_from_2013-02-07_13_31_20-ViIvXLQf.1360273538.png
http://picpaste.com/pics/Screenshot_from_2013-02-07_13_37_15-GBjeEsL8.1360273595.png
But on the fiddel it messes things up.. :( What happened? HOw do i fix this?
Second is.. if i have long string... it shoots over that light gray border of the heading
"Reading from xml..." thingy
What I am looking for is that the maxiumum spread of this text goes upto that border.. and after that.. it breaks to a next line.. so that text is enclosed properly..
In div.content
div.content {
background-color: #add8e6;
display:inline-block;
margin-top: 20px;
border-radius: 10px;
position: relative;
top:-5px;
}
I tried to add limit and stuff.. but it limits the blue box to a pixel value
but instead i want text (and blue box) to limit upto certain limit after which it
breaks to a new line...
any clues.
Thanks
You're absolutely positioning the .checksheet class. This removes it from the document flow. Other elements like your .content-class don't care for it.
I don't know why you use position: absolute; in this context, but it's producing your mistake.
Your fiddle is breaking because you're using absolute positioning. When the screen is narrow, your elements in the checklist are wrapping around, but the elements that follow are positioned in a way that assumes the preceding element is only 1 line instead of 2.
Without the actual markup relating to your second question, we can only guess at what the actual problem is. However, since you're using pre in the sample provided, the culprit is most likely there. What you need is to add a property like this:
white-space: pre-wrap
Without this property, the pre tag generally does not allow elements to word-wrap, which will cause it to take up as much horizontal space as possible to display all of the text.

Facebook style status input border

I tried to figure it out using Firebug, but no chance. How is the Facebook status input border wrapped round the autosize input? Particularly, I am interested in the small triangle joined into the border. Using Firebug, I managed to find the triangle itself, which is provided in the form of a GIF image:
.uiComposerAttachment, .nub {
background: url(http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/rsrc.php/v1/zf/r/PfBgtiydy5U.gif) no-repeat center top;
height: 7px;
width: 11px
position: absolute;
left: 2px;
top: 18px;
}
But I couldn't figure out how it is placed above the input and how the border is added, in the form of a background image or defined as a CSS border?
I made a fiddle that mimics the facebook status box...
http://jsfiddle.net/UnsungHero97/mFuD4/5/
I added some functionality to the example, in particular, I found a cool jQuery plugin that allows for textarea auto-resizing.
Facebook actually uses a <textarea> element and the way they take care of the border is simple.
The "What's on your mind?" text is inside the <textarea> element and the border around it is due to several <div> element wrappers (more than the 2 I've shown above). Also, as you pointed out, the little arrow on top of the "What's on your mind?" is a .gif image, but there are ways to do this using only CSS!
Regarding the triangle...
If you're interested in alternative ways to do this using only CSS, I asked a question recently about the little triangle! Here's the question...
How can I create a "tooltip tail" using pure CSS?
... and here are the answers:
answer 1
answer 2
answer 3
answer 4 (this one is REALLY cool!!!)
I hope this helps.
Hristo
Here's how you can do it using only CSS: http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2010/11/22/css-quick-tip-css-arrows-and-shapes-without-markup/
A similar question has been asked before though...
The border around the textarea is actually around parent div's (.uiTypeahead, .wrap) within the form. Looks like the actual textarea has no border.
As for the triangle it is just a css background inside the li (the items status, photo, video, link, etc are a list). The triangle is this element: <i class="nub"></i>. It is then positioned absolute to sit at the bottom of the list which has the form just below.
Thanks for your useful hints,
I finally managed to solve it in a four-liner:
#type_indicator { /* img#type_indicator is the triangle image tag, followed by the input field in HTML code */
position:absolute;
left:100px;
}
Greetings
Chris

CSS: Vertical-Align text?

I am using the following HTML:
<p>← Back</p>
To create the following:
← Back
Problem is, the left arrow is not vertically aligned in the middle. It appears to be at the lower 3rd.
Question: how do I get the left arrow to be aligned vertically in the middle (of the letter "B") using CSS?
UPDATE:
Is it possible for me to vertically adjust/align this:
Without modifying my HTML, and
Without using an image?
The arrow is a simple character, so it's aligned like the others (it is in the "middle", the creator of the font wants it to be where it is... maybe that's the middle of lower-case character). Maybe it looks different using another font, maybe not. If you have a fixed font and that one looks messy, you could try to use the :first-letter selector (or wrap the arrow in a span or something) to move it up 1 or 2 px (position:relative: top:-2px;).
Another solution would be to use an image for this, like most websites do (and there are many free icon sets out there — my favourite is famfamfam)
You can wrap your arrow in SPAN tag and then play with line-height and vertical-align CSS properties.
Generally you should not do this, you should let it as the font was conceived by its author.
But it you want to change it you can do it like this:
<p><a href="http://www.example.com/">
<span style="position:relative;top:-3px;">←</span>
Back
</a></p>
Note: Use what you need instead of -3px, I used that just to illustrate how the position can be changed.
I think you have to use a image for the left arrow than &larr.
It IS possible to have the &larr in a separate span, have some specific padding to bring the arrow to the right position, or use a specific font that has the arrow at the center, but this will have side effects.
I suggest you use an image.
There are two possible answers to this.
The way you're writing it, this is not a graphical element (arrow) followed by a label ("Back"), but a line of text (inside a paragraph) containing a single character followed by a letter string. So alignment is a purely typographical problem and determined by the font you're choosing. Choose a different font and see if it's more typographically pleasing.
What you want is really not a line of text but two independently placeable graphical elements. Put each inside its own span, give it display: inline-block and position: relative and play with vertical paddings, margins and line-heights until you're satisfied.
You have some options:
1. Put the arrow between span tags before the word Back, add an id to this span object and then assign the style in the css file playing with: padding-top or bottom and also vertical-align or position relative.
2. The second option is using the image as background and then you have to create the style for this link:
li a#link,#link_conten{
background-image: url(../../../img/arrow.gif);
background-position: left top;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
}
In addition, it is not common (from the semantic point of view) to put just the link (tag a) inside a paragraph (tag p). Then you have to deal with the default css rules for tag a and p but of course depends of your design
You could use CSS generated content. This will mean editing your HTML - to remove the arrow. Essentially you're creating a pseudo-element that sits in front of the link, and you can style it however you like, e.g.
a.back:before {
content: "\2190 "; /* Unicode equivalent of ← */
display: inline-block;
padding: 5px;
background-color: aqua;
}
On the downside this won't work in IE 6 or 7. You might be able to work around that with some targeted javascript.
If you don't want to edit your HTML, you could give :first-letter a try. It only works on block-level elements, so you'll need to work accordingly, e.g.
a.back {
display: inline-block;
}
a.back:first-letter {
background-color: aqua;
padding: 5px;
}
I've had trouble getting this to display consistently cross-browser though. IE8 and FF3.6 do rather different things with the code.