I have a little problem i was hopeing you guys could help with. I have create an empty white box on my frontimage. To do that i have to change the image to absolute. After this, the image is now out of alignment. To make it easier to understand, there are two images i want to show you, so you can see the problem.
Image when it is set to Relative:
Its the water image in top.. here you see that it is perfect align (left and right side) with the aque color boxes under.
Image when it is set to Absolute:
Somehow when i set the image to absolute, it gets bigger in the right side. I have read some earlier post that the parant should be set to relative.. I mean that I already have done that.
Code:
<div class="row">
<div class="col-sm-12 contentpage">
<img id="frontimage" src="~/images/index.jpg" />
<div class="col-lg-4">
<div class="bookingbox">
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
Css:
#frontimage{
z-index: 1;
position: absolute;
}
.contentpage {
height: 650px;
background-color: white;
position: absolute;
}
.bookingbox {
background-color: green;
position: absolute;
height: 450px;
width: 300px;
z-index: 2;
position: absolute;
top: 30px;
left: 30px;
}
img {
max-width: 100%;
}
Now it works.. take a look at the picture :D
Of course it's out of alignment!
When you set the image to absolute, it breaks off the flow of the page, and basically creates a new "layer" to be on. You can say it's "absolutely" off the page flow.
When you set the image to absolute, to position it correctly, make the parent of the image relative, then position and resize the image according to the origin of the parent.
Make sure to add another div so it fits inside it! winks
Related
I would like to place a smaller image with a transparent background in front of a header image in WordPress. The theme I am currently using allows me to set own css styles but I have no clue how to achieve my goal.
Has anybody already worked on this?
Thanks a ton,
Anton
Here is an example how to place an image in front of another image. I placed a PNG of a bee inside a banner image.
HTML
<div id="container">
<img id="banner" src="https://www.mortcap.com/images/sample_report_banner.png">
<img id="bee" src="https://orig00.deviantart.net/672c/f/2014/320/3/1/bee_png_stock_by_karahrobinson_art-d86m7bq.png">
</div>
CSS
#container {
position: relative;
}
#banner {
width: 600px;
}
#bee {
position: absolute;
z-index: 5;
top: 20px;
left: 20px;
width: 100px;
}
When we set position: absolute, that element will always be position relative to the nearest parent with position: relative (or absolute). And then you can refine the position of the absolutely positioned element using top, bottom, left, right css properties.
Play arround with this fiddle
I have a full-width cover image. Inside of that, I have a bootstrap container class with an absolute positioned image that sits on top of the cover image. What I would like to to do is have that image positioned to the right-hand side of the container only.
Here is my code:
<div id="header">
<div class="container">
<img src="header-icon.png" class="header-icon" />
</div>
</div>
#header {
background-image: url('cover.jpg');
background-size: cover;
height: 300px;
position: relative;
.header-icon {
position: absolute;
bottom: 0;
}
}
Of course, when I add right: 0 to the header-icon, it aligns outside the container. I could, of course, create media queries and try and position the icon based on screen size, but I'm wondering if a better way to do it exists.
I have also tried to make the icon relative to the container, but this seems to break what I am trying to achieve.
I'm not 100% sure what you are trying to achieve, but it sounds like you want right: 0 to align the image to the right of the container and not the header.
position: absolute will position an element absolutely according to the first parent element that is not positioned statically. Right now, you have #header with relative position, but .container still has static position. Therefore, you want to apply position: relative to the container:
#header .container {
position: relative;
}
Also, the code you posted seems to be missing a </div>.
Is this what you are looking for jsfiddle, this is the code i added
#header .container {
position: relative;
height: 400px;
}
I apologize if this has been answered time and time again. I remember searching thoroughly for an answer a couple years ago when I first wrote up my website script, but I couldn't ever find one. The same for now.
Recently I reworked my website's script so I can host it onto Weebly. Here is one of the four pages of my site that I need help with. As you can see, the images that pop up when the thumbnail is hovered over are absolutely positioned. For most computer resolutions and/or browsers, this will have the image appear out of the designated box.
How could I position them to the inner top left corner of the div? Or better yet, horizontally and vertically centered within it?
<section id="Sizes" style="float: left">
<a href="#Space">
<img class="Small" src="/files/theme/SampleD_Fun_Icon.png" width="150" height="150" alt="Sample 1: Day of Fun" />
<img class="Large" src="/files/theme/SampleD_Fun.png" width="150" height="150" alt="Sample 1: Day of Fun" />
</a>
...
</section>
<a id="Space"></a>
<span class="Popup">Hover over thumbnail to display sample artwork.</span>
<br style="clear: left" />
a:hover img.Small
{
border: 5px solid #21568b;
margin: 10px;
text-decoration: none;
}
section#Sizes a img.Large
{
border-width: 0;
height: 0;
left: 438px;
position: absolute;
top: 326px;
width: 0;
}
section#Sizes a:hover img.Large
{
height: 526px;
left: 438px;
position: absolute;
top: 326px;
width: 520px;
}
.Popup
{
border: 3px solid;
float: left;
height: 272px;
margin: 8px 20px 0px 0px;
padding-top: 254px;
text-align: center;
width: 520px;
}
Thank you for your time. :)
Your whole design is a bit fragile, and I wouldn't recommend building this this way in the first place, but you're looking for practical answers, so here's the smallest change I can think of that fixes your problem:
1) Add this to your style sheet:
body { position: relative; }
2) On line 40 from your main_style.css, change top: 326px to top: 316px and left: 438px to left: 428px, so that it becomes like this:
section#Sizes a:hover img.Large {position: absolute; top: 316px; left: 428px; width: 520px; height: 526px;}
How does that work?
Your images are place using absolute positioning. By default, that works relative to the viewport (the window). But by turning the body into position relative, it becomes a containing block, and position absolute is relative to the nearest containing block ancestor.
So now, your images are fixed within the body element, instead of being fixed relative to the window. Since the margins of the body element is what's changing size when you resize the window, that makes the various pieces of your content fixed relative to each other. You then just need to remove 10px from the top and left side, since that's the size of the border of your body element, and we're now measuring from inside the border.
TLDR: You can't do this in pure CSS.
You can easily position the image inside the container div if you place the image element inside the div element, and then use absolute positioning like top: 0; left: 0; (or with a number of other methods). But then you'd need JavaScript to correlate the hovered thumbnail with the popup full-size image.
Alternatively, you can have the full-size image be nested in the thumbnail element (like you currently have), but then you'd need JavaScript to position the full-size popup image inside the container div.
Of the two alternatives, I recommend the first: put all the popup images inside the target container, and use JavaScript to show or hide them when a thumbnail is hovered. Correlating the thumbnail and the full size image via JavaScript is going to be easier then writing positioning code.
I see you're using jQuery already so why not do something like this?
$('.Small').on('mouseover', function(){
$('.Popup').empty().html($(yourtarget).attr('img' , 'src'));
});
$('.Small').on('mouseout', function(){
$('.Popup').empty().html('Hover over thumbnail to display sample artwork.');
});
Just because everyone was saying it can't be done with pure css, I wanted to demonstrate that it can, and it is even quite easy. Have a look at the folowing example:
http://jsfiddle.net/aafa2zp5/
<div id='images-wrapper'>
<ul>
<li>
<img class='small' src='http://placehold.it/50/ff0000'/>
<img class='big' src='http://placehold.it/300/ff0000'/>
</li>
<!-- and some more similar thumb / image groups -->
</ul>
<div class='preview-area'></div>
</div>
CSS (or the relevant part at least)
#images-wrapper {
position: relative;
}
.big {
display: block;
position: absolute;
top: 54px;
right: 54px;
opacity: 0;
transition: opacity .5s;
}
.preview-area {
width: 350px;
height: 350px;
border: 4px solid blue;
position: absolute;
top: 21px;
right: 21px;
}
li:hover .big {
opacity: 1;
}
The key is to set a position relative to the wrapper (and keep all of the descendants as their default static). Then you can use this to position the preview area and the big images against by setting them to postion absolute and carefully calculating the correct postion. I even added a cross fade, just because it is so easy, but you could just as well work with display block / none if you prefer.
For smaller screens you may want to alter the dimensions and positioning inside a media query, but it still should be doable (though depending on the hover state is perhaps not the best idea on a touch device)
I hope you get the idea and you can figure out how to apply this technique to your own site. Feel free to ask if you want me to explain further or when you get stuck.
I have seen the layout similar to the image below used on some sites before and I really like the design but don't exactly know how to implement the overlapping image (Profile Image). I am using bootstrap if that helps. Any ideas?
Thanks!
I can see three ways to do this generally.
position: absolute
You could give the image or the image's wrapper the attribute of position:absolute and giving its container (in your example the green box) position:relative. Then you would apply top: -100px or whatever and a left attribute of left: 100px or whatever. This gives the effect of the image being out of flow, aligned to the left and offset by 100px, and 100px offset from the top of the green container. The disadvantage of this approach would be that any body content in your green container could appear under the image.
position: relative
This is the same approach as the first one with the exception of how the image flows in the document. Instead of giving the image position:absolute, you would give it position:relative. Relative works differently from absolute. instead of being x and y coordinates of the parent container, it's just shifted by however much you give as a value for top and left. So in this case, you would apply top:-100px and just leave the other directional values as default. this would shift your element by that amount but also leave its original spot in the document flow. As such you end up with a gap below the image that other content will flow around.
negative margin
I honestly would prefer this method in your case. In this method, you can give the image a negative margin (e.g. margin-top:-100px). This will offset the image, collapse the area below the image, and it will still retain some of its flow in the document. This means that the content of the green container will flow around the image but only around the part that is still inside the container. It won't have a ghost area that content flows around like with relative positioning, but it also doesn't entirely take the image out of flow like absolute positioning. One thing to keep in mind, however, is that if you try to use overflow of any kind other than the initial value, it will cause undesirable effects to your image.
Demo
Here's a quick little demo demonstrating all three methods in a simple use case: http://jsfiddle.net/jmarikle/2w4wqfxs/1
The profile image can be set with position: absolute; top: 20px; left: 20px, or something like that to keep in from taking up space in the flow of the page.
make the html element that holds the header image "position:relative". Then put the header image and the profile image in that element. then make the profile image "position:absolute" and utilize "top: XXpx" depending on how far you want it from the top of the header element. Same for "left".
see fiddle here
<div class="header">
<img src="" alt="my image" class="floatdown">
this is my header, image could go here too
</div>
<div class="body">
this is my body content
</div>
.header {
position: relative;
width: 100%;
height: 150px;
border: 2px solid #000;
text-align: right;
}
.body {
position: relative;
width: 100%;
border: 2px solid #000;
height: 500px;
text-align: right;
}
img {
width: 90px;
height: 90px;
border: 2px solid #ddd;
}
.floatdown {
position: absolute;
top: 100px;
left: 20px;
}
You can use the float property on your profile image to take it out of the "flow" of the document, and play with the margins to place it properly.
CSS :
#profile-image{
width: 100px;
height: 100px;
float: left;
margin: 100px;
}
The marginis used to push it down and place it properly.
You can see an example of this in a Fiddle : http://jsfiddle.net/y706d77a/
I wouldn't recommand using position: absolute as you can get very strange results with different resolutions. I would only use that as a last resort.
This can be done many ways.
Anytime you see something like that on the web you can just use your inspector or firebug and see how they are doing it to get some ideas.
It wouldn't hurt to do some research on the web about CSS positioning.
http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_positioning.asp
Another great site.
http://css-tricks.com/
I just finished it.
Here is a codepen link:
http://codepen.io/anon/pen/zxYrxE
HTML:
<div class="main-container">
<div class="header">
<p>This is the header div</p>
</div>
<div class="profile">
<p>Profile</p>
</div>
<div class="content">
<p>Some dummy content div</p>
</div>
</div>
CSS is to big to be pasted here, so just open the link.
Put the profile image in the header, make the position: absolute; and the image position: relative;, and give it a negative bottom value that's half the height of the image, and set left to position it horizontally to taste.
HTML
<header>
<img class="profile">
</header>
<div>Content</div>
CSS
header, div{
min-height: 110px;
background: darkgray;
}
header{
position: relative;
background: gray;
}
img{
position: absolute;
bottom: -50px;
left: 100px;
}
http://jsfiddle.net/dekqn84c/
just got a question regarding relative & absolute positioning and applying clearfix to the main container cos I've written the code and it's not behaving as I expected.
Structure-wise this is a simple page about product history. nav-bar with drop-down menu at the top across the screen, then a big hero image across the screen, followed by a few paragraphs and a simple footer, that's it.
here's my problem:
I need to put 3 components in the hero image area - the hero image itself, one title word on the top left corner and one logo on the top right corner. What I've done is: I created a div and used the hero image as background image. I set the position value of the div to relative. I created another div to hold the title word and set the position to absolute, using top and left to give it a location. Following the same logic, I created another div to hold the logo and set it to float right, with position set to absolute and top and right to give a location. I've applied clearfix to the main div and everything looks ok on my screen (resolution 1280 x 1024) until I saw it on the wide screen(1680 x 1050) --- the logo is not on the hero image! It's to the right side of the hero image.
What caused this? I thought by putting 2 divs inside the main div and applying clearfix, the three will "get together" and act as one and won't separate... Is it because I haven't written any code for responsive layout? Or was it because I shouldn't have used the hero image as the background? Would this problem be solved if I used z-index instead to specify the stack order of hero image, logo and title word?
Below is my code and any help would be much appreciated!
<div id="history-content" class="clearfix">
<div id="history-image-text">HISTORY</div>
<div id="stamp">
<img src="./images/logo.png">
</div>
</div>
#history-content {
background-image: url('./images/heroimage.jpg');
min-height: 307px;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
position: relative;
}
#history-image-text {
color: #fff;
position: absolute;
top: 20px;
left: 50px;
font-size: 20px;
font-weight: bold;
}
#stamp img {
width: 10%; /*not sure I'm doing the right thing here either*/
height: 40%; /*not sure I'm doing the right thing here either*/
float: right;
position: absolute;
right: 100px;
top: 20px;
}
.clearfix:after {
content: ".";
display: block;
clear: both;
visibility: hidden;
height: 0;
line-height: 0;
}
Few things:
Absolutely positioned elements are taken out of normal flow, hence doesn't affect the size of their parent.
Since they're out of normal flow, float has no effect on them (as far as i know)
Absolutely positioned elements shrink wraps to fit it's contents unless width and height is set explicitly or stretched using the top, right, bottom & left properties.
Now your parent div #history-content doesn't have any height set, and all of it's content of are absolutely positioned, So it's not visible (height 0)
applying a proper height for the parent seems to fix the issues for me.
Side note: unlike what you think, you don't have two absolutely positioned<div>'s, #stamp img absolutely positions the <img> inside div#stamp, for the same reason mentioned above, div#stamp is also invisible (height 0) you'll get the same result with and without it. And without floats
As others have said, float doesn't have an effect on absolute positioned elements, and so technically you don't need clearfix in this case.
I'm not exactly sure why your logo is positioned outside the outermost container #history-content, but you could try to put a border around the #history-content to further troubleshoot.
EDIT: Maybe check your hero image dimension, is it smaller than 1608px in width?
<div id="history-content">
<div id="history-image-text">HISTORY</div>
<div id="stamp">
<img src="./images/logo.png">
</div>
</div>
I've changed your CSS below
#history-content {
background-image: url('./images/heroimage.jpg');
min-height: 307px; /*set whatever minimum height you wish*/
background-repeat: no-repeat;
position: relative;
}
#history-image-text {
color: #fff;
position: absolute;
top: 20px;
left: 50px;
font-size: 20px;
font-weight: bold;
}
#stamp {
display: block;
position: absolute;
right: 100px;
top: 20px;
width: 10%; /*set width of image in containter instead*/
height: auto;
}
#stamp img {
max-width: 100%; /*image width will not stretch beyond 100% of container*/
height: auto;
}
JSFiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/5L9WL/3/