I am making a search tool, and the search bar was originally a div, and everything was fine, but when I change it to input tags, the margin on the left disappears. Can someone please explain why this might be happening.
Here's my code (with header HTML removed for security reasons): http://jsfiddle.net/k3pv5cmh/
I have tried margin: auto, margin: 0 auto, and margin-left: auto with margin-right: auto. But none of these fix the problem.
On the JS Fiddle you can change the input tags to div tags and see the difference.
An input element is an inline element by default. A div is a block level element. So change your css to this:
#search-bar {
height: 50px;
width: 60%;
max-width: 800px;
background-color: white;
border: 2px solid rgb(230, 230, 230);
border-radius: 15px;
margin-right: auto;
margin-left: auto;
margin-top: 20%;
display:block;
}
Note: display:block;
Just add display: block; to your #search-bar definition. Input is basically line element, that means margin: auto; has no effect.
Inputs by default have style: display: inline-block;
Divs on the other hand, by default have style: display: block
The difference is in how much of container does each style takes.
You can see their differences here
If you want the same behaviour, you just have to put
style="display: block" in your input element and override its default style.
You can also add #container { text-align: center; } if you want to keep input tag inline. In this case you can get rid of left and right margins of input tag and put something next to it (may be button).
Related
I want to add padding in my hr,
hr {
padding-left: 200px;
}
but it's not working. how to add padding in my hr ?
Padding does not work in hr.
You have to use margin instead:
hr {
margin-left: 200px;
}
And it'll work.
Before adding padding, you should have to set a width for your hr otherwise it will display in full width.
hr:first-of-type{
width: 100px;
padding-left: 10px;
}
hr:last-of-type{
width: 100px;
padding-left: 50px;
}
<hr>
<hr>
Thanks and best regards!
HR is slightly different from most HTML tags in its defined behaviour, as it tries to fill up the whole width of the containing element.
The only way I know to stop it expanding over any margins is to explicitly set a width attribute
hr {
width: 90%;
padding-left: 200px;
}
Even then, it seems to ignore the padding, so you should use a margin instead:
hr {
width: 90%;
margin-left: 200px;
}
It's still kind of scrappy and imprecise. If the ruled line needs to be in line with some other element, you're probably best ensuring that they are in the same DIV, so that the ruled line can start at the left margin of the div.
As Python mentioned, padding does not work with hr
A good solution would be to place the hr inside a div
Another workaround (not recommended, more like a band-aid) would be to create a div and apply styling to it to create a line, particularly add a single border to it
For example,
<div class="divider"></div>
And for the styling
.divider {
border-top: 1px solid #081521; /* Create the border, i.e. Divider */
margin: 1rem auto; /* Add a Margin and Center the divider */
}
so for some reason there is some white space between my elements (using chrome browser). I tried inspecting it and couldn't solve the issue. Not sure what could be causing it at all. I hosted a demo page here so you can see what I am talking about.
So any idea what would be causing this? I'll provide my CSS below for the elements in question. As you can see the blue element to the left does not have this same issue so I assume it has something to do with the gear elements.
This is the only code I have on it right now:
.gear-item {
position: relative;
height: 320px;
width: 320px;
padding: 80px 25px 0px 55px;
display: inline-block;
clear: none;
}
.gear-item:nth-child(even) {
background: #252627;
}
the whitespace you see is the actual whitespace in the html, inline elements will show whitespace between then, the easiest solution is to float the elements
.gear-item {
position: relative;
height: 320px;
width: 320px;
padding: 80px 25px 0px 55px;
display: block;
float:left;
clear: none;
}
.gear-item:nth-child(even) {
background: #252627;
}
Inline elements are sensitive to the white space in your code. Remove the white space in your code between your divs and the space goes away.
Its caused by using inline-block. Apparently the same problem described here: https://css-tricks.com/fighting-the-space-between-inline-block-elements/. So it's actually the whitespace in your markup!
A quick fix would be using floats instead for gear-item:
display: block;
float: left;
(or some of the other solutions outlined in the link I mentioned)
TLDR: this codepen works fine in Chrome, but the alignment is off in Firefox.
I'm building a jQuery plugin which modifies a text input to give it a dropdown button on the left. In order to get the positioning right, I add a wrapper div, which is the same height as the input, so the button can be absolutely positioned on top of the input, and yet still have the same height:
#wrapper {
position: relative;
}
#overlay {
position: absolute;
top: 0;
bottom: 0;
width: 30px;
}
This works fine until the input has vertical margin: then the container grows to include the margin, and so the dropdown button grows with it. My solution to this was margin collapsing: I gave the input display:block which meant that the container ignored it's margin. All good.
input {
margin: 20px 0 40px; /* testing */
display: block;
}
But now the problem is that by default, inputs are inline elements e.g. you might want to have a submit button next to the input. So I wrapped the whole thing in a container div with display:inline-block, so another inline element like a button can happily sit next to it.
#container {
display: inline-block;
}
This works fine in Chrome, but has weird alignment issues in Firefox when there's any vertical margin on the input. Below I've added the final markup. There's also a codepen link at the top.
<div id="container">
<div id="wrapper">
<input>
<div id="overlay"></div>
</div>
</div>
<button>Submit</button>
Edit: the point is that this is a plugin and I'm trying to work with the user's existing markup and CSS e.g. they have this markup:
<input><button>Submit</button>
and their existing CSS has vertical margin on the input, and I want them to be able to just initialise my plugin on the input and it just work, without forcing them to change their markup/CSS. Now because the plugin needs to add lots of markup around the input (for the overlay and the dropdown list), I wrap it all up in a container div. This container div is the limit of our reach (and does not include the button element, or anything else they choose to put next to their inputs).
To fix this, you'll need to define a line-height in your parent div#test2. Without it, different browsers will give it different values. This will cause Firefox to cause this weird result.
Now, the line-height isn't the only problem, also the vertical-align's baseline value will generate a different result for inline elements than it is for inline-block elements that have a different height than the surrounding inline content. To fix this, change the value to top for the #container element (since that's the inline-block element).
The final result would have the following changed (only pasting the parts that changed):
#test2 {
background-color: green;
line-height:70px;
#container {
// replicate the inline nature of the input
display: inline-block;
vertical-align:top;
}
//the rest of the #test2 nested code
}
That would look like this.
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I've made something that does work by the requirements set. Since you said the extra code (so the divs around the input) are made by the plugin itself, I've taken the liberty of changing that a bit to make this work.
The way it can work quite easily is just not using inline-blocks at all, and sticking with the inline elements. This would change the styles to the following:
#container {
// replicate the inline nature of the input
display: inline;
}
#wrapper {
display: inline;
position: relative;
}
input {
// you'll want to make sure the typed text doesn't appear behind the overlay
padding-left:35px;
}
#overlay {
position: absolute;
top: 0px;
bottom: 0px;
left: 1px;
width: 30px;
background-color: #00C2FF;
}
Notes:
I didn't bother making the overlay cover the full height of the input, since your plugin would just make it a flag anyway. To make it cover the full height, just set negative top and bottom styles on the overlay, equal to the computed padding-top and padding-bottom (resp.) on the input. In this case, you'd have to change them to top:-5px;bottom:-5px;. (you can get the computed style via jQuery's $(input).css('padding-top'))
You could actually also remove the whole #container from it, since the only style it has now is display:inline which really doesn't add anything to the whole thing.
I've added a padding-left to your input, because otherwise you'd have to type behind the overlay, which is just silly.
Is the HTML generated by the plugin and it needs to stay exactly the same? I'm not sure I can figure out exactly why the second example is not working, but you seem to have too many div elements there. You could make since simpler:
HTML
<div id="test1">
<div id="wrapper">
<input>
<div id="overlay"></div>
<button>submit</button>
</div>
</div>
SCSS
input, button {
border: 1px solid black;
padding: 5px;
}
input {
display: inline-block;
padding-left: 35px;
}
#test1 {
background-color: yellow;
padding: 20px 0 40px 0;
#wrapper {
position: relative;
#overlay {
position: absolute;
top: 1px;
left: 1px;
width: 30px;
background-color: #00C2FF;
}
}
}
Codepen example
I've removed the margin, and instead used padding on the parent, it achieves the same thing. You'll also want some padding-left on your input field so the entered text doesn't disappear behind your overlay div.
EDIT: In case you are unable to change the markup:
SCSS:
#test2 {
background-color: green;
#container {
// replicate the inline nature of the input
display: inline-block;
padding: 20px 0 40px 0;
}
#wrapper {
// this is just here to be display:block and ignore the margin on the input
display: block;
position: relative;
}
input {
// tell parent to ignore margin
//display: block;
margin: 0;
}
#overlay {
position: absolute;
top: 1px;
bottom: 1px;
left: 1px;
width: 30px;
background-color: #00C2FF;
}
}
codepen demo
Removed the block and margin declarations from the input field, and moved the spacing to padding of the #container element.
"Disclaimer": Let me just start by saying that I did not find exactly what is causing the problems in Firefox, but I did think of an alternative way you could do it.
The way this works in both Firefox and Chrome is just to use the exact same HTML as you used for your #test1, but on top of that, also using the CSS :before pseudo-element (instead of using the #container and #wrapper). The code I used was:
#test2 {
background-color: green;
position:relative;
&:before {
content:"";
display:block;
position:absolute;
left:1px;
top:1px;
bottom:1px;
margin:20px 0 40px 0;
width:30px;
background:#00C2FF;
}
}
demo
The way this works is to simply position the :before overlay on exactly the same place as the divs previously were. As you can see, I've used most of the same styles as you did, but instead, I've put them on the :before pseudo-class.
Other answers don't know why it doesn't work on Firefox. Well, I think that Firefox has the right behavior and it's a Chrome problem.
In short, you want to align an input with a button. But the input is inside a wrapper. Then, you can use vertical-align to control the vertical aligning between the wrapper and the button, but not between the input and the button.
Here you can see an screenshot with different vertical-align:
See the code.
If you want to align the input and the button (last case in the image), you have a problem, because any of the keywords you can use with vertical-align does that. Only in case that input's top margin and bottom margin are equal, then vertical-align: middle works.
But in general, you have have another solution: vertical-align also accepts a <length> value.
And, to get a perfect alignment, you should use the formula
vertical-align: -(input bottom margin)
Or, if you want to align them even if the button has a bottom margin, then
vertical-align: -(input bottom margin) + (button button margin)
The code formula above works with inline-block <div>, but not with <buttons>.
The formula must be fixed to
vertical-align: -(input bottom margin) -(input offsetHeight)/2 + 6
In your example
(Input bottom margin) = 40px
(Input offsetHeight) = 31px
Then, you need
vertical-align: -(input bottom margin) -(input offsetHeight)/2 + 6
Demo
I could achieve it with the following.Codepen You will have to know the css applied to input and apply it to button as well
button{
position:absolute;
margin-left:5px;
}
input, button {
display: inline-block;
margin: 20px 0 40px 0;
}
please update below in your code.
input, button {
border: 1px solid #000000;
margin: 20px 0 40px;
padding: 5px;
vertical-align: top;
}
hope it will work
http://codepen.io/anon/pen/Isycu
I have a container div and 5 child div's with
{display: inline-block}
so they appear next to each other. Each of the child div's have a height of 20px, but the container grows to a height of 24px. Why does this happen?
Fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/VHkNx/
Inline block elements still take care of the line-height/font-size. So adding this:
line-height: 0;
to #container will fix it.
Demo
Try before buy
Once you're using the inline-block display, your elements behaves similarly to words and letters. Whitespaces and line heights are rendered as well and it might cause some unexpected results.
One way of solving this is to give the container font-size: 0 setting (of course you can still give the child elements themselves their own font size).
jsFiddle Demo
P.S - line-height: 0 will also work.
One simple way of fixing this is to add vertical-align: top to the child elements:
.thing {
vertical-align: top;
display: inline-block;
background-color: Red;
height: 20px;
width: 18%;
margin-left: 1.25%;
margin-right: 1.25%;
}
This way, you don't need to adjust line heights or font sizes.
As noted earlier, a similar layout can be realized using floats. Both approaches are valid.
See demo at: http://jsfiddle.net/audetwebdesign/74Y2V/
Inline-block elements are placed as block on the base line of a text line, as they are inline elements, so it's the space from the base line to the bottom of the text line that takes up space.
You can use floating elements instead of inline elements:
#container {
background-color: Green;
width: 500px;
overflow: hidden;
}
.thing {
float: left;
background-color: Red;
height: 20px;
width: 18%;
margin-left: 1.25%;
margin-right: 1.25%;
}
#first {margin-left: 0px;}
#last {margin-right: 0px;}
Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/VHkNx/2/
Easiest way is not to give them display: inline-block, but use float: left; . All elements will float next to each other. Good luck!
i want to know whats the best way to position text inside a block element.
foo
normal link but styled as display block with a background
display: block;
width: 100px;
height: 100px;
background: #000000;
the text now is top left.
now the question: what the best way to get this text to example: bottom-left or bottom-right?
i prefer CSS solution without any new elements inside the A-Tag. Some opinions?
You could also make use of display:table-cell - however, that won't work in <=IE7
http://jsfiddle.net/QU9gy/
you can't select content to sit along the bottom. By using padding (padding-top) you can manually make it look like ist's justified to the bottom.
so in the above example try
display: block;
width: 100px;
height: 14px;
background: #000000;
padding-top: 86px
You can try this too.
display: block;
width: 100px;
height: 100px;
background: #000000;
line-height:188px;
font-size:12px;
color:#fff;
text-decoration:none;
If you change your font-size than reduce than value from 200px :) means if you are using 18px font than line-height would be 182px so total no will be 200px;