I'm having a bit of trouble with text selection on my website. I want to be able to select the text-only & not the excess white space between paragraphs on any sides of the text.
At the moment, I can, with using the ::selection & having it's own background colour. However I believe my code is all screwy & I just can't find out how to do it.
This website below is exactly what I want it to do, when selecting the text, the white space between paragraphs is never selected.
Demo site - Formula one
Any & all help is greatly appreciated, thank you!
If you just use <p> element to wrap each paragraph (that's what the <p> element exists for, that's its destiny. Do you want to deny it from doing what its meant for???), the browser will do the magic himself :-)
Check out the simplest JsFiddle i've ever created :-)
If you are interested in how they achieved the effect in the formula website, here are all relevant parts - jsfiddle. (I altered fiddle by #Ronen Cypis).
As you can see, thay use an hidden overlay layer
.fom-modal-shim {
position:absolute;
left:0;
top:0;
right:0;
bottom:0;
width:100%;
height:100%;
z-index:1000;
-moz-opacity:0;
-khtml-opacity:0;
-webkit-opacity:0;
opacity:0;
-ms-filter:alpha(opacity=0);
filter:alpha(opacity=0);
visibility:hidden
}
The final effect is achieved by setting position of the page container to relative.
.site-wrapper {
position:relative
}
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I really need help! I have a comment section on my website and have been trying for the life of me to get my date and time to come below the posted comment itself. I have figured out how to rearrange it in the html file, but unfortunately can't seem to find that file in my things (i used chrome developer to rearrange it).
I am wondering if there is a way I can place the date below the comment by using CSS? I've attached a picture below of what the comment section looks like currently.
Thanks so much for any advice in advance!
You can easly do it with CSS if you don't want to rearrange the elements with HTML. I don't know if this is the solution you are looking for but you can give position relative to the comment container and then just position element with date as absolute on the bottom.
.comment {
position:relative;
padding-bottom:20px;
}
.comment .date {
position:absolute;
left:0;
bottom:0;
}
This makes the element with date appear on the bottom of a comment, and the extra padding-bottom on a comment container makes sure that the date has enough space to be displayed without overlapping any comment text (you might want to adjust that padding-bottom value to your own taste)
I'm sorry I cannot show you the code, it is currently on my localhost.
I am pretty sure I have correctly typed the code because Netbeans doesn't show any errors. I am making my parents website for their charity, Enough to Spare. When I load the webpage though, there is a white line on all sides (although you can't see the top line because that div is white)
Here is a screenshot.
Anyone have any suggestions?
I would recommend you use a reset.css file before your own.css, so you start with a blank slate.
You could always add -
html { width:100%; height:100%; margin:0 padding:0; }
body { width:100%; height:100%; margin:0; padding:0; }
http://www.cssreset.com/ - This is where I look to get my reset.css file
Thank you to Dan Ovidiu Boncut for reminding me to put in margin:0; and padding:0;!
Ninja edit: Have you tried using the Chrome Developer Tools? You can play with the css using that. Right click on an element and click on inspect, there you can add new css styles and edit your current ones. It is a brilliant way to find solutions to your css issues... it also shows you what line in your css file you're at, so when you come to make the changes in file you know where to look straight away! :)
In the CSS, try changing the padding of the container <div> to 0, because anything inside a <div> is also inside whatever padding it has, resulting in space between the padding and the border. Also try changing the margin to 0, because having a margin will result in space between the border and its container.
If you don't have a container <div>, or this didn't fix it, try setting the padding of the <body> tag to 0, because it's the outer-most container and might have default padding.
I also think there might be alternative ways to set background contents to ignore padding. Unfortunately, it's been a little while since I've worked in HTML and CSS, and I don't currently have time to experiment with that. But see what you can do with the above suggestions.
The fact that NetBeans doesn't show errors doesn't mean your presentation is the way you want it to be.
Check your containing divs. Check for any margins and/or paddings that could cause spacing. Borders as well.
If all fails use a CSS reset and check again.
You need to copy and paste the html and css involving your page elements, otherwise no one will be able to help you. Having your code on localhost has nothing to do with that.
The only thing that solved this problem for me was adding
body {overflow-x: hidden;}
to my CSS file. Once this works, I guess you can remove:
html { width:100%; height:100%; margin:0px padding:0; }
body { width:100%; height:100%; margin:0; padding:0; }
And also: quick tip for beginners: always use Command + Shift + R for a hard reload instead of a normal Command + R while testing solutions.
I recently had an idea for using the CSS pseudo-class :hover to display a styled tooltip when the mouse is hovered over a link.
The basic code for the link looks like this:
.hasTooltip {
position:relative;
}
.hasTooltip span {
display:none;
}
.hasTooltip:hover span {
display:block;
background-color:black;
border-radius:5px;
color:white;
box-shadow:1px 1px 3px gray;
position:absolute;
padding:5px;
top:1.3em;
left:0px;
max-width:200px; /* I don't want the width to be too large... */
}
This link has a tooltip!<span>This is the tooltip text!</span>
The result is exactly what I want, but with one annoying problem: the span does not expand to accommodate text, and if I don't specify a width, the text is squashed.
I did some searching on Google, found a couple examples of work people had done (this example is creepily similar to what I've gotten), but no one seems to have addressed the span width problem I'm having.
I know this answer is extremely late, but it appears the key to your issue would be to use:
white-space: nowrap;
inside of your span, and get rid of any sort of width definition. Of course the drawback to this will be that the tooltip will only be able to support a single line. If you want a multiline solution you will most likely have to use javascript.
Here is an example of of this method:
http://jsbin.com/oxamez/1/edit
An added bonus is that this works all the way down to IE7. If you do not need to support IE7, I would suggest folding the span, and img styles into a :before, and :after for the .tooltip. Then you can populate the text using the data-* attribute.
I don't think there's a perfect solution to this problem with pure CSS. The first problem is that when you place the span inside the a tag the span only wants to expand as far as the width of the link. If you place the span after the the a it's possible to get close to what you're trying to do but you'll have to set the margin-top: 1.3em and then have to set a negative margin to slide the tooltip left. However, it's going to be a fixed setting so it won't sit exactly at the start of each link.
I whipped up a jQuery solution that sets left dynamically (and a nice little fade effect for good measure).
Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/wdm954/9jaZL/7/
$('.hasTooltip').hover(function() {
var offset = $(this).offset();
$(this).next('span').fadeIn(200).addClass('showTooltip');
$(this).next('span').css('left', offset.left + 'px');
}, function() {
$(this).next('span').fadeOut(200);
});
These tool tips can also be integrated into a word press theme easily. Just copy the CSS into your style. Css file and when creating your posts, just take help of the HTML code and create your own tool tips. Rest is all styling, which can be altered according to your own choice. You may also use images inside the tool tip boxes.
http://www.handycss.com/how/how-to-create-a-pure-css-tooltip/
Even though this question is a bit older already, I would suggest the following compromise:
Just use max-width: 200px; and min-width: 300%; or so,
whereas the min-width could result higher than the max-width.
Just figure it out.
This way you could not have entirely liquid tooltips but the width would stand in kind of a correlation with the width of the containing link element.
In terms of optical pleasantness this approach could be of value.
edit:
Well I must admit it is nonsense what I wrote. When the min-width can be higher than the max-width, there is no sense to it.
So just putting the min-width in percent would achieve what I tried to suggest.
Sorry for that.
I found this and it was working for me. It's a good solution when you have a lot of elements and jquery plugins on the same page and you can't work with
Text <span>Tooltip</span>
View pure CSS solution: JS BIN
Credit to trezy.com
What I want to achieve is something like this.
::::::::::
...hi....
..........
..........
The hi is in the middle of the 2 colors.
I have it working for 1 color, and another color underneath, but would like the colors to split up in the middle of the text. (I'll be using button images if no one can come up with a solution using css (Trying to avoid using images)
EDIT: Of course the css result has to be across browsers (ie 7+, FF3.0+, chrome, opera (newest))
Thanks
HTML:
<div class="fancyButton">
<div class="background top"></div>
<div class="background bottom"></div>
<p>hi</p>
</div>
CSS:
.fancyButton
{
width:100px;
position:relative;
}
.fancyButton .background
{
width:100%;
height:50%;
position:absolute;
}
.fancyButton .background.top
{
top:0;
background-color:red;
}
.fancyButton .background.bottom
{
bottom:0;
background-color:blue;
}
.fancyButton p
{
position:relative;
text-align:center;
}
Tested, and hopefully copy-pasted correctly. It uses a div that takes it's height from the <p> inside of it. The two backgrounds are set to the top and the bottom of the button div and are 50% of it's height so they meet nicely in the middle, no matter what height the button is. You can take out the fixed width and replace it with a left-right padding declaration for the button div if you want, so that the width is determined by the <p> too. (just realizing this and don't want to retest)
Nothing fancy; just solid, robust css!
You can achieve this with multiple nested elements, although your mark-up will be less semantic.
Alternatively you can use gradients; this is a good resource for generating cross-browser CSS - http://www.colorzilla.com/gradient-editor/
Or you can use the CSS3 multiple background property, which is obviously not yet cross browser compliant. See this link for more info - http://www.zenelements.com/blog/css3-background-images/
If none of these help please show us the code for what you've achieved so far and it'll be easier to advise.
You could create a css gradient with two stops really close to each other: firefox css gradients. It won't be cross browser yet. The second example on this page is pretty close to what you want: webkit simple gradients (only in webkit).
Probably the only option here is to use CSS3 gradients as other answers have mentioned. However, if you do decide to use images (because some browsers don't support CSS3 for instanct), this tutorial about transparent sprites is very useful.
If I have two layers on a page, split horrizontally, with the second layer overlapping part of the first layer, is it possible to make it "click through"?
I have links in the first layer, which the second layer overlaps, which stops the links from being clickable. Is there a way to make the layer display, but be click through, while still having it's own links clickable?
edit:
Here is an example, with html and a stylesheet.
The test links become unclickable when inline with the header in Layer3, but below that they are fine. Is there a way to rectify this?
<title>Test</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="test.css" type="text/css">
<body>
<div id="Layer0">
<div id="Layer1" class="Layer1">
<h3 align="left">Brands</h3>
</div>
<div id="Layer2" class="Layer2"><h1>TEST</h1>
<div id="rightlayer">
TEST><p>TEST><p>TEST><p>TEST><p>TEST><p>TEST><p>TEST><p>TEST><p>TEST><p>TEST><p>TEST><p>TEST><p>TEST><p>TEST><p>TEST><p>TEST><p>TEST><p>TEST><p>TEST><p>TEST><p>TEST><p>TEST><p>TEST><p>TEST><p>TEST><p>TEST><p>
</div>
</div>
<div id="Layer3" class="Layer3"><h1>Ed Hardy Auctions</h1>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
And the css
#Layer0 {
width:100%;
height:100%;
}
body {
margin:10px 10px 0px 10px;
padding:0px;
color:#999999;
font-family:"Trebuchet MS",arial,sans-serif;
font-size:70.5%;
}
#Layer1 {
position:absolute;
left:10px;
width:200px;
margin-top:17px;
font-size:1.0em;
padding-left:12px;
padding-top:8px;
}
#Layer2 {
background:#fff;
margin-left:199px;
color:#000;
}
#rightlayer {
float:right;
}
.Layer3 {
position:absolute;
top:67%;
padding:20px;
width: 100%;
}
Thought I would update this as I'd been struggling with this for a few hours and think i've found a solution. Looked into using Jquery but the CSS property:
pointer-events:none;
...did exactly what I wanted.
It is not possible if you want the divs to stay in their current x,y, (and most importantly) z - only the "top" layer is clickable.
Addendum post OP edit:
Think of CSS layout as if you were physically working with bits of paper (this is much easier to visualise if you give all your "layer" divs a different background colour). The rendering engine cuts out a bit of paper in the dimensions you give it (or it works out) for each element it finds. It does this in the order it encounters them putting each bit of paper on the page as it goes - the last item is going to be on top.
Now you've told the rendering engine to put your 3rd div in a position where it overlaps the 2nd. And now you expect to be able to "see" the covered content. Wouldn't work with paper, won't work with HTML. Just because it's transparent doesn't mean it's not taking up space.
So you have to change something.
Looking at your CSS and markup (which honestly could be cleaned up, but I'll assume there's other mark-up you're not showing us which justifies it) there's a couple of easy win ways:
1). Set a z-index of -1 on Layer3 - z-index is how you can change the layering order from the default (as encountered). This just moves the entirety of Layer3 below the rest of the page so what was hidden becomes exposed, but also vice versa depending on content.
2). Change the width from 100% to e.g. 80%, or more likely given your use of pos:abs set left:0px and right:199px; (I'm guessing that padding-left on Layer2 is an intended column width?). The cost of this is that your Layer3 is no longer 100% width
3). Google "CSS column layout" and find a pattern that reflects what you need and adapt that. Every CSS layout which can be done has been done a million times already. Standard techniques exist which solve your problems. CSS is hard if you haven't built up the experience, so leverage the experience of others. Don't reinvent wheels.
It would be a mammoth job, but it is possible.
You would need to capture the click event on the top layer/div, and find the cursor x-y position.
Then find all links in the layer/div underneath the top layer, and see if it's position on the screen falls around the current mouse position.
You could then trigger the click of the matched link.
I would use jQuery (if you are not already) for this and then re-post with a jQuery tag if you run into troubles.
It is hard to tell without seeing some code.
You could try setting z-index on the bottom layer but that works on elements that have been positioned with absolute, relative or fixed (position:absolute).
edit after seeing code:
Add position:relative; z-index:100; to #rightLayer.
Or you could remove the width:100% from .Layer3.
You may want to refactor your code and go with a two column layout for #rightLayer and .Layer3.
css
#Layer0 {
width:100%;
height:100%;
}
body {
margin:10px 10px 0px 10px;
padding:0px;
color:#999999;
font-family:"Trebuchet MS",arial,sans-serif;
font-size:70.5%;
}
#Layer1 {
width:200px;
margin-top:17px;
font-size:1.0em;
padding-left:12px;
padding-top:8px;
}
#Layer2 {
background:#fff;
margin-left:199px;
color:#000;
}
#rightlayer {
float:right;
}
.Layer3 {
}
html
<div id="Layer0">
<div id="Layer2" class="Layer2">
<h1>TEST</h1>
</div>
<div id="Layer1" class="Layer1">
<h3 align="left">Brands</h3>
</div>
<div class="content">
<div id="rightlayer">
TEST><p>TEST><p>TEST><p>TEST><p>TEST><p>TEST><p>TEST><p>TEST><p>TEST><p>TEST><p>TEST><p>TEST><p>TEST><p>TEST><p>TEST><p>TEST><p>TEST><p>TEST><p>TEST><p>TEST><p>TEST><p>TEST><p>TEST><p>TEST><p>TEST><p>TEST><p>
</div>
<div id="Layer3" class="Layer3">
<h1>Ed Hardy Auctions</h1>
</div>
</div>
</div>
I'm assuming from the example that the links in the rightlayer are the only links that need to be clicked, and that you don't have links in the other layers. If so, you could solve the problem by changing the z-index order of the divs.
Layer1 and Layer3 have position absolute, so if you add a position style (absolute or relative) to Layer2, you will be able to pull that div to the front, also pulling the rightlayer div to be in a higher layer than Layer3.
I added the following to the CSS:
#Layer2 {
position: relative;
z-index: 1;
}
From what I can see that leaves the current page setup just the way it is, but pulls all the elements (including the rightlayer with the links) to the front, so you'd be able to click all the links in it.
For debugging purposes I suggest adding background colors to all the different layers to get an idea of the z-index order of the different layers. With the background color in place it was quite easy to spot the layer that was falling over the links, but also to verify that the new z-index order makes the links available.
Hope this helps!
I submitted a bug years ago to the Firefox Bugzilla saying that there was this very bug in Firefox.
I was told by a Mozilla engineer that this was not actually a bug and that it is the correct behaviour as per the HTML/CSS specifications.
Unfortunately I can't find the original bug to reference as it was about 6 years ago.
The reason I submitted the bug was because I could click through the top div onto the links below when using IE (6 I think) but Firefox would not let me.
As usual, it turned out hat IE had the incorrect implementation and Firefox was working as intended by the spec.
Just because a div is transparent does not mean you should be able to click through it.
I'm not sure how you could get around this with JavaScript or CSS. I would take a step back and have a re-think about what you're trying to achieve and how you're trying to achieve it.
Greg
Can you not simply set the width of the div to auto (the default for absolute positioning - i.e. just delete the width:100% from .Layer3).
That way the div will only be as wide as is necessary, rather than unnecessarily overlapping the links.