Implement groupBox look in WinRT - windows-runtime

How can I implement a custom control which has the groupbox look, with a piece of text slightly overlapping the outside border and text contained inside?

If it's a case of design integration, then your best bet might be to create a ContentControl-derived control with a template that has a root Grid with a Border element, a TextBlock for the label overlapping the Border and a ContentPresenter inside of the Border. Check the default Button template for inspiration since it might be quite similar.

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CSS Custom Scrollbar style

CSS Custom Scrollbar style
I've been having a hard time customizing the scrollbar the way I intend and maybe it's not even possible.
I want to add a custom image to the scrollbar-thumb background with rectangles on both ends of it. The conceptual idea is to be able to keep top and bottom of the scrollbar-thumb with a custom icon image, but I represented it as a rectangle in the example.
Since the size of the scrollbar is not always the same I'm looking for a way to achieve what I described before.
I've failed to do it using ::-webkit-scrollbar.
Visual example:

How to get a tooltip to show when users hover over a div with a certain class and not show on others

I've actually got the tooltip showing where I want it to show, that part is working. The text it's displaying is contained in a <span> that's hidden until they hover over a div that has the tooltip class on it, similar to the example on w3schools.com.
I have a column of div's and only certain ones get the tooltip class. The problem I'm having is that the span is successfully hidden in the div's that don't have the tooltip class, but it's still reserving the space for it and I'm having trouble figuring out how to get it to not do that.
I'm hiding the <span> with CSS's visibilty:hidden which hides the text but the space for it is still reserved. If I change it to display:none instead of visibility:hidden it hides the text and does not reserve the space for it, which makes sense and that is almost what I want except I can't make it visible again without posting back.
So now I'm debating putting the whole thing inside of an ajax call so I don't have to refresh the whole page, but I'm not sure that would work either.
Is this even possible, or does anyone have any suggestions?
I appreciate any help anyone can offer.
Thanks
You can try span{position:absolute}
Use js instead of css.
If you use css then it'll also create problems on responsive.
You can use bootstrap tooltip or simple jQuery
https://jqueryui.com/tooltip/
what you can do is, give that div an id, and through css hover, set the tooltip's display to block,
or you can use, javascript for this, regidter those divs with a on hover, function , check the target of the hovered element, if it matches with that one, set tooltip's div display property to block,,simple

How to make an angled tooltip pointer element using CSS?

I am wondering how to make an angled element that acts as an arrow, attached to a tooltip. I've seen this done by Google Accounts, and I have attached a screenshot. It appears they are achieving this with a couple of span elements.
I can't figure out from their HTML/CSS how they did it... My only idea is to use a CSS3 rotation on a regular div, or an image, but I'm guessing there's a more basic way.
Can anyone give me a hint? I'm not looking for a full solution, I'm just stumped about how to approach it. Also it's not about the tooltip itself, it's about that angled element.
EDIT: Here's a related question. They are using transparent borders, border-radius and box-shadows?
You can create it using image or manipulated span, I know facebook create it using sprite image, google and twitter using styled span, just make border transparent except the bottom one. this is twitter:
this is a tutorial.

powerpoint flowchart to html

I have the following
image as a powerpoint flow chart (text with hyperlinks not shown).
I want to turn this chart into an html-website.
Any ideas how to get a good result for this task?
I think recreating this with coding in html is troublesome.
Thank you.
Text on gray backgrounds (5 on right, 2 on left) are probably headings of the same level so they would be hN floating on the right and coming before each set of arrows.
Each individual set of arrows can be fairly easily coded as lists and styled as these breadcrumbs:
Simple scalable CSS based breadcrumbs (by Veerle Pieters)
Breadcrumb Navigation with CSS Triangles (by Chris Coyer)
They can expand with content if it seldomly occupies 2 lines (Firefox/Ubuntu and Safari/Mac have laaarge fonts, don't assume that your text will always stay on 1 line. Not speaking of zoom text that should be taken into account)
As for orange arrows between individual series ... that's complicated enough without HTML so it depends of context I believe. Is this an industrial process, webmarketing or else? To make it accessible, I'd use HTML images with alternative text trying to describe relationship.
Red arrows could be anchor links, probably.
I Think this image can be optimized pretty good, as it doesn't have a very complicated graphic. Therefore an easy solution can be just including it as an background image and then you can set the text and links into place using css.
A better solution is to break the picture into smaller components, then this way you can define "div" s with the background-color, border, and border-radios as the gray parts, and set the white elements as the background-image of "a" tag... However for the arrows I think you should include them as background-image...
Hope this helped...

Is there a way to make HTML text flow around images - regarding transparency?

On an HTML page, you can make text flow around images with the CSS property "float". But this will only consider the image's rectangle, not transparent regions in the image. I now have an image that has large areas of full transparency, like for example a circular logo, and would like the text to flow around the circle contour of that logo, not the bounding rectangle. At least on the text-facing side of the image.
I know that CSS is probably not suitable for that task. But is there some workaround, like hidden divs or something that can achieve the same (or a similar) effect? Has somebody already seen such a thing?
I have written a PHP function for that now. It takes the PNG image and generates the <div> elements to make the text flow around another form than the image's rectangle. You can find the code here:
https://unclassified.software/source/shaped-image-flow
Update 2020/2021:
Now there is a CSS property for that: shape-outside. It can be given an image with transparency that will determine the outside shape to let the text flow around. If the visible image is already a PNG, the same image can be used for this CSS property. Additional margin can be added with shape-margin. Both are supported by anything except IE.
Example:
<img src="img/shape.png" style="shape-outside: url(img/shape.png); shape-margin: 1.5em;">
I really doubt you can do that easily without making a big mess, of tags, JavaScript or both. One way i can think is placing image on larger zindex and positioning div or divs behind it, and text would flow around them. It would be easiest to use smaller rectangle that excludes transparent areas. But then why not just crop/clip the image? Or you can try floating line height divs behind it, but I guess that it will get quite ugly pretty fast. Or you could try placing each line of text in span/div and positioning them manually or with js by calculating approximate shapes to those that are in the image. One other idea, of which I'm not sure: it might be possible do this using svg. But quick search does not show much promise ether.
Any way one more thing to consider, when doing something as experimental and complicated as this, in whatever way you do this, it will most likely be huge pain to make it work well across most browsers.
There is a css property that do just what you want
shape-outside include values of shapes you can use.
https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/how-to-wrap-the-text-around-an-image-using-html-and-css/