I've been looking around Google but can't find a CSS way to increase the height of the background of selected text.
For example the background of the selected text in the Atom editor is noticeably higher than the right one:
Since Atom is made with HTML/CSS, I wonder if there's a combination of CSS which can achieve this result?
This is a bit hacky but you could do it by using a pseudo element (like ::before) that has a content of non-breaking space and some padding to create the line-height illusion:
body {
background: #000;
color: #FFF;
}
::selection {
background: red;
}
p::before {
content: "\00a0";
padding: 10px 0;
display: inline-block;
}
This is default text
<p>This text has a pseudo element</p>
jsFiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/azizn/8bmj4dm1/
Caveat: this will require wrapping each line in a tag. You could probably use JavaScript to automatically wrap each line in a tag for this to work with multi-line content.
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I make userstyles, in other words, third party CSS or custom CSS, and I'm replacing text with content property and the before and after pseudo elements. The problem is, to completely hide the original text, I have to set the original element's font-size to 0. This also hides things set in place with the hover pseudo element. I was going to just apply the hover properties to my before pseudo element, but then I would have to use 2 pseudo elements, which I don't think is possible. But, I'm not sure. Here's a sample similar to my code.
a.class[href="link"] {
font-size: 0;
visibility: hidden;
hover:
}
a.class[href="link"]:hover {
background-color: black;
}
a.class[href="link"]:before {
font-size: 16px;
visibility: visible!important;
content: "This text replaced what showed before";
}
a.class[
Inside of a parent element which is a paragraph, there is text and a couple of anchor links. These anchor links have their display set to inline-block and the visual result looks like this:
https://imgur.com/a/aLR3Q
Now if I would change the display to inline, the result looks like this:
https://imgur.com/a/TFof9
My question is, why does having the display of the anchors set to inline-block instead of just inline cause this, let's just say "soft line break" ? Because I thought that in terms of line-breaks, both of the displays act in the same way, and don't break at all.
Codepen link for the code: https://codepen.io/Kestvir/pen/zpvmYV
The code for the parent element:
.footer__copyright {
border-top: 1px solid #777;
padding-top: 2rem;
width: 80%;
float: right;
}
The code for the anchors:
footer__link:link, .footer__link:visited {
color: #f7f7f7;
background-color: #333;
text-decoration: none;
text-transform: uppercase;
display: inline-block;
transition: all .2s;
}
The anchors are:
Jonas Schmedtmann
and
Advanced CSS and Sass
The line break happens because the the inline block cannot be split across multiple lines like a normal inline element. It is simply one entire "block unit" that is displayed inline. If that entire unit does not fit, then it will all be wrapped down to the next line.
I would like to hover a link (<a> tag which contains a <div> tag), so the color becomes red BUT only when I hover the yellow field! My problem is that you can also hover it if the cursor is not on the yellow field.
I know that I could put the a tag into the div tag but I want to link the whole box and not only the text.
I also tried to use a { width: 100px; } but that is of course not working.
https://jsfiddle.net/3phy4950/
Any ideas how I can resolve this?
It does not work with width, because you are applying this style to the a tag. But a tags are display inline by default which means they dont take the whole space / line.
The div tag is display block by default, which means it will take the whole space / line.
What you need is to change the display style from the a div to inline:
a div {
display: inline;
}
See Fiddle
Use inline-block as the display format for the <a> tag.
a {
width: 100px;
display: inline-block;
}
Your updated fiddle
What about this:
<div class="btn" onclick="location.href='http://google.com'">» Hover Me</div>
And the css:
.btn {
background-color: yellow;
width: 100px;
}
.btn:hover {
color: red;
}
I have applied background-color: #C0C0C0; to my span element .grey_bg but the background is not changing color. Why is that?
.grey_bg {
width: 100%;
background-color: #C0C0C0;
}
<span class="grey_bg">
<h1>Hey</h1>
</span>
Because it's not really valid HTML to put block-level H1 element inside span (inline element). You can either use div instead of span
.grey_bg {
width: 100%;
background-color: #C0C0C0;
}
<div class="grey_bg">
<h1>Hey</h1>
</div>
... or make span block-level too:
span {display: block;}
.grey_bg {
width: 100%;
background-color: #C0C0C0;
}
<span class="grey_bg">
<h1>Hey</h1>
</span>
First your markup is not correct. You can't have a block element, h3, inside an inline element, span.
But in case you want to keep that markup, you have to make the container element to behave as block. So make it as:
.grey_bg {
width: 100%;
background-color: #C0C0C0;
display:block;
}
Your code is incorrect because your span is wrapping your H tag.
You should not use span to wrap inline element's like H tag's. Instead you want the span to be inside your H tag.
The span element is the inline level generic container. It also helps to inform the structure of document, but it is used to group or wrap other inline elements and/or text, rather than block level elements.
The line between the two different types might seem fairly arbitrary at first. The difference to bear in mind is the type of content, and how it would appear when written down without any styling. A div is placed around a group of block level elements—for example, to wrap a heading plus a list of links to make a navigation menu. A span wraps a group of inline elements or (most usually) plain text. The key word is “group”: if a div wraps just one block-level element, or a span just one inline element, it's being used unnecessarily. For example, check out the way the div and span elements are used in the following simple markup:
W3C
.grey_bg {
width: 100%;
background-color: #C0C0C0;
}
<h1><span class="grey_bg">Hey</span></h1>
I figured out that I had to target the h1 as well in the css:
.grey_bg h1 {
background: #C0C0C0;
}
I'm trying to underline and overline a line until the end of the line , but this CSS code
.statistics_lines {
text-decoration: overline underline;
}
only marks an underline & overline for the words only .
How can I force the entire line to be underlined , with the words ?
Like that :
There isn't a way using text-decoration since that style is the decoration added to the text of that element. You could use multiple spaces ( ) but it'd be sloppy and wouldn't always be the width of the element.
Since we are talking about a single line, you can use the border of your element to get what you are looking for. If the element is inline, you will need to change its display style.
I've also added padding:
.statistics_lines {
display:block;
border-top:1px solid #DDD;
border-bottom:1px solid #CCC;
padding:7px 4px;
}
<span class='statistics_lines'>this is my line</span>
Use border instead. Like this :
.element {
border-bottom: 1px solid #eee;
}
<div class="element">This is a test</div>
You can "play" with it in order to obtain any style you want. Example :
.element {
border-bottom: 1px dotted #888;
padding: 15px 0;
}
<div class="element">This is a test</div>
If you are talking about a single line then you may just use the border-top and border-bottom property for that.
But if you are talking about the multiple line sentences then you may use a background which width is to be just 1px and height would be the line height of your paragraph has and the background should repeat then you'll see exactly what you want.
Since the effects of text-decoration apply only to the textual content of the element, the only way to make them stretch across the available width is to make the content that wide. This could be done with JavaScript code that appends no-break spaces until the width is exceeded, then trace back one space. In plain CSS, you need to use a long string of no-break spaces (hoping that it will be enough) as generated content and to suppress overflow:
.statistics_lines {
text-decoration: overline underline;
white-space: nowrap;
overflow: hidden;
}
.statistics_lines:after {
content: "\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0\a0";
}
<div class=statistics_lines>this is my line</div>
Since overline and underline are too close to the letter glyphs in many ways, it is probably better to use upper and lower border instead, as suggested in other answers.