Target the last A element with conditionals - html

I need to target the last <a> element but with some conditionals.
In this case the text is created through a CMS which limit's me the option to add a class. I created a jsfiddle to show my problem. The last <a> must have an font awesome angle right in it's :after the other <a> elements not. I can't use something like :last-child a because the user/text writer doesn't have to write a link by default. There is also the possibility of another paragraph after the first. So nothing is default but the last <a> element which stands alone from the paragraph with some actual text must have an icon.
It's kinda hard to explain but the jsfiddle will explain itself so please take a look. it would be nice if there was a CSS solution. if not jQuery comes second.
Thanks in advance!

As far as I know it cannot be done using CSS alone.
How about JavaScript:
var element = document.getElementsByTagName("a");
for(var i=0; i < element.length; i++) {
var el = element[i]
var x = el.parentNode.innerText.length;
var y = el.innerText.length
if (x === y) {
el.classList.add('icon');
}
}
CSS:
.icon::after{
content: "\f105";
margin-left:5px;
font-family: FontAwesome;
background-color: transparent;
}
It adds an .icon class to all <a> elements which are not wrapped inline with text in the parent element.

You can target the last p tag.
p:last-of-type a::after{
content: "\f105";
margin-left:5px;
font-family: FontAwesome;
background-color: transparent;
}

Related

Get text content in css after

Given this HTML:
<span data-title="Attribution">test</span>
I can use in CSS after to retrieve data-title
span:after{ content: attr(data-title); }
But what I need is the span text content, in the example above test, is it possible to get it in CSS after ?
I don't know of any way to get the inner text of an html element through CSS. Javascript will have to be used at some point, however, you could for instance use Javascript to set an attribute for your span and use CSS to read that attribute -
var elems = document.getElementsByTagName("span");
for(var i = 0; i < elems.length; i++) {
var mytext = elems[i].innerText;
elems[i].dataset.trunc = mytext;
}
span:before {
content: attr(data-trunc);
color: red;
}
<span>Some-Text</span>
<span>More-Text</span>
<span>Other-Text</span>

How to create a "placeholder" for DIV that act like textfield?

Div don't have a placeholder attribute
<div id="editable" contentEditable="true"></div>
I want <Please your enter your Name> to show in DIV when the User backspace the whole text in the DIV, or no text on inside, How can I do it?
Here is a pure CSS only solution:-
<div contentEditable=true data-ph="My Placeholder String"></div>
<style>
[contentEditable=true]:empty:not(:focus):before{
content:attr(data-ph)
}
</style>
Here, we basically select all contentEditable <divs> that are empty & blurred. We then create a pseudo element before the CSS selection (the editable div) and fix our placeholder text (specified the data-ph attribute) as its content.
If you are targeting old school CSS2 browsers, change all occurrences of data-ph to title
Correction.......the :empty selector is not supported in IE version 8 and earlier.
What I find in other answers is that when using :not(:focus) pseudo class, I have to click again in order to get the blinking cursor and be able to type. Such issue doesn't happen if I click on an area other than the placeholder.
My workaround is simply removing :not(:focus). Even though in this way the placeholder will still be there after I click on the editable div, I'm able to type no matter where in the div I click, and the placeholder disappears immediately after I type something.
BTW, I inspected YouTube's comment div implementation, seems they are doing the same thing, e.g. #contenteditable-root.yt-formatted-string[aria-label].yt-formatted-string:empty:before
.editableDiv1,
.editableDiv2 {
border-bottom: 1px solid gray;
outline: none;
margin-top: 20px;
}
.editableDiv1[contentEditable="true"]:empty:not(:focus):before {
content: attr(placeholder)
}
.editableDiv2[contentEditable="true"]:empty:before {
content: attr(placeholder)
}
<div class="editableDiv1" contentEditable=true placeholder="If you click on this placeholder, you have to click again in order to get the blinking cursor and type..."></div>
<div class="editableDiv2" contentEditable=true placeholder="Click on placeholder is fine, it'll disappear after you type something..."></div>
You can try this one !
html:
<div contentEditable=true data-text="Enter name here"></div>
css:
[contentEditable=true]:empty:not(:focus):before{
content:attr(data-text) }
check it out (demo)
in HTML
<div id="editable" contenteditable="true">
<p>Please your enter your Name</p>
</div>
in JavaScript
jQuery.fn.selectText = function(){
var doc = document;
var element = this[0];
console.log(this, element);
if (doc.body.createTextRange) {
var range = document.body.createTextRange();
range.moveToElementText(element);
range.select();
} else if (window.getSelection) {
var selection = window.getSelection();
var range = document.createRange();
range.selectNodeContents(element);
selection.removeAllRanges();
selection.addRange(range);
}
};
$("#editable").click(function() {
$("#editable").selectText();
});
jsFiddle

Tricky styling creating blank space

Hello there, I just created this datepicker thingy which turned out pretty cool except that it creates some really annoying and weird looking white space below the divs when empty and appears higher, see the fiddle > http://jsfiddle.net/VtKkM/2/ Any help is greatly appreciated!
Haven't figured out the problem as of yet, but it seems that it doesn't like it when the spans are empty. One workaround, at least for now, is to replace your blank options with just a space ( ) so that there's still the illusion that it's empty but the spans still technically contain a value. This may not be a permanent solution, but it'll work for now.
To elaborate:
Line 2 of your js would go from
var days = '<option></option>',
to
var days = '<option> </option>',
and line 32 would go from }).parent().prepend('<span></span>'); to }).parent().prepend('<span> </span>');
Its for line height and your font size of page you can fix it by
Add line height style to your datePicker class like this:
line-height: 8px;
or change font-size like:
font-size: 10px;
Edit:
and for moving when you pick a some value from select you should set your span to position: absolute;
.datePicker > div > span{
position: absolute;
}
Edit2:
or you can set space value in first time in your span, change <span></span> to <span> </span>
Edit3:
i changed this lines to add space in initial between span tag, check values that add onload datepicker:
$.each(picker.children(), function () {
$(this).wrap('<div>').change(function () {
if ($(this).hasClass('month')) {
$(this).prev().html(months[$(this).val() - 1]);
} else {
$(this).prev().html($(this).val());
}
}).parent().prepend('<span> </span>');
if ($(this).hasClass('month')) {
$(this).prev().html(months[$(this).val()]?months[$(this).val()]:" ");
} else {
$(this).prev().html($(this).val()?$(this).val():" ");
}
});
Edit 4:
and css way, you can fixed it by add padding style to empty span like this:
.datePicker > div > span:empty{
padding:5px;
}
.datePicker > div {
display:inline;
position:relative;
min-width: 18px;
min-height:28px;
padding:0 5px 0 5px;
}
Just change display:inline-block to display:inline
The part about it appearing high I could fix with giving .datePicker select a 5px margin.

Assigning classes to elements through CSS

I'd like to tell the browser to assign certain CSS classes to elements matching a particular selector. Can I do it with pure CSS and if yes, how?
Example: I want all the h5 elements inside a div with id sidebar to have the class ui-corners-all
No, that isn't possible with pure CSS.
Only with JavaScript:
// jQuery
$("h5").addClass("ui-corners-all");
// Pure JavaScript
var elements = document.getElementsByTagName("h5");
for (var i=0; i<elements.length; i++)
{
var el = elements[i];
el.setAttribute( "class", el.getAttribute("class") + " ui-corners-all" );
}
There is no way to assign this value to those elements in pure CSS.
You would need to do:
#sidebar h5
{
}
Then copy all styles from ui-corners-all class into this.
Or alternatively, change your ui-corners-all CSS to:
.ui-corners-all, #sidebar h5
{
}
No, you can't. You can however use Javascript (jQuery recommended) to achieve this effect.

Is it bad to put <span /> tags inside <option /> tags, only for string manipulation not styling?

I would like to make groups of the text content of an <option /> tag. Say I have the following: <option>8:00 (1 hour)</option>, the time pattern 8:00 can be modified, then the text in parenthesis (1 hour) can also be modified.
I was thinking of doing something like
<option>
<span>8:00</span>
<span> (1 hour)</span>
</option>
Is it bad to put <span /> tags inside <option /> tags, only for string manipulation not styling?
From the HTML 5spec:
Content model:
If the element has a label attribute and a value attribute: Nothing.
If the element has a label attribute but no value attribute: Text.
If the element has no label attribute and is not a child of a datalist element: Text that is not inter-element whitespace.
If the element has no label attribute and is a child of a datalist element: Text.
So depending on context there are two things that you can put inside an <option> — text or nothing at all — you may not put a <span> or any other element there.
From the HTML 4.01 spec:
<!ELEMENT OPTION - O (#PCDATA) -- selectable choice -->
(Even the HTML 3.2 and HTML 2 specs say: <!ELEMENT OPTION - O (#PCDATA)*>)
An option element cannot have any child elements. So yes, it is bad.
You can use a Javascript plugin to overcome this limitation. For example jQuery plugin "Select2" Select2 plugin homepage. I use it in a couple of my projects and think that it's pretty flexible and convenient.
There are a number of them, but they do quite same thing - convert traditional <select> into <div> blocks with an extra functionality.
The option element
Content model: Text
No, it’s not ok. Consider keeping the values around in your script so you can recompose them when necessary.
You're better off using an HTML replacement for your <select> if you want to do this.
As established by other people, and I have tried with <b> and other tags, <option> does not take tags within it.
What you can do, since you cannot use <span> inside an <option> tag,
You can use the index number to extract the text via
document.getElementById(selectid).options[x].text where x is the relevant index, as a variable.
Then what you do is use the " (" to split the variable into the time, and remove the last character as well which removes the ")"
Sample:
<script type="text/javascript">
function extractSelectText()
{
var text = document.getElementById("main").options[1].text
/*
var tlength = text.length
var splitno = tlength - 1
var text2 = text.slice(0, splitno)
var textArray = text2.split(" )")
var time = textArray[0]
var hours = textArray[1]
}
</script>
Changing it is much simpler:
<script type="text/javascript">
function changeSelectText()
{
/* add your code here to determine the value for the time (use variable time) */
/* add your code here to determine the value for the hour (use variable hours) */
var textvalue = time + " (" + hours + ")"
document.getElementById("main").options[1].text
}
</script>
If you use a for function you can change each value of the select replacing 1 with 2, 3 and so on, and put a set interval function to constantly update it.
One option for editing would be to use some fancy pattern matching to update the content. It will be slower and more resource intensive, and depends on how regular the format is, but doesn't require any HTML modifications. My concern, however, would be on accessibility and the user experience. Having values change is hard for screen reader software to pick up, and it may also confuse other users.
It is not an answer, but may be it will help sombody, it is possible to mimic select with details tag. This example is not complete, I used javascript to close list on click
const items = document.querySelectorAll(".item");
// Add the onclick listeners.
items.forEach(item => {
item.addEventListener("click", e => {
// Close all details on page
closeList(item);
});
});
function closeList(item) {
document.querySelectorAll("details").forEach(deet => {
if (deet != this && deet.open) {
deet.open = !open;
console.log(item);
}
});
}
details {
border: 1px solid #aaa;
border-radius: 4px;
}
summary {
padding: .5em 0 .5em .5em;
font-weight: bold;
}
details[open] {
}
details[open] .item {
cursor: pointer;
padding: .5em 0 .5em .5em;
border-top: 1px solid #aaa;
}
details[open] .item:hover{
background-color: #f1f1f1;
}
details[open] .title{
padding: .5em 0 .5em .5em;
border-top: 1px solid #aaa;
}
<details>
<summary>Select your choice</summary>
<div class='title'>
This is attempt to mimic native <code>select</code> tag with html for <code>option</code> tag
</div>
<div class='item'>item 1</div>
<div class='item'>item 2</div>
<div class='item'>item 3</div>
</details>