I have an application that has a lot of buttons in the window. In writing the HTML documentation pages for this, I've been successful in creating a bordered, sorta-shadowed CSS <span> with text within that represent the buttons that just have legends on them.
This allows me to show "momentary" buttons like these...
...that just have a legend on them in such a way that it's reasonably obvious what I'm describing by simply putting...
<span id="button">LAP</span>
...in line with the associated description (and my custom documentation system makes it even easier by letting me invoke the style inline with [s button LAP]. Fun. :) Here's the style I built for that:
span#button
{
font-family: Courier;
font-weight: bold;
white-space: pre;
border: 1px solid #000000;
background: #ddddee;
padding-left: 2px;
padding-right: 2px;
color: #000000;
}
Here's screen clip of part of the documentation that uses that technique:
Also within the application, I have buttons that have "LED" indicators on them. A typical one might display a green LED when on, and a dark LED when off. Screen clip from the application (with a dark style sheet, so the buttons are dark) showing some of these:
I already have nice little .jpg images that show all the "LED" colors I use, conversely, an embedded CCSS box filled with the right color would be fine too.
What I would like to do, and am having no luck at all doing, is create a <span> within the text that looks as least somewhat like one of those buttons -- without going to specific images for each button, or in other words, using CSS. Since the only things that vary are the LEDs and the text, I want to can the LEDs and feed in the text. Something like...
<span id="greenbutton">Run</span>
In order to do that, I need the LED to appear above the text, and size the text small enough to land underneath it, and center them both within a bordered box as the text-only version above does. I would like an output like this (button built in an image processor)...
press to start
...from this:
press <span id="greenbutton">RUN</span> to start
It seems like it ought to be easy enough; and I can add quite a bit of complexity within my documentation system if required to make it all work -- multiple nested spans, divs, images, test, whatever it takes -- but I keep running into these two showstoppers:
<span> wants things to come one after another horizontally
<div> either causes line breaks or floats left or right
I can't seem to get a <div> to just land in the text where I put it in the first place, although I've been able to make them look just like I want them to because they understand vertical alignment and positioning withing their own context.
I was also thinking of some actual images of buttons with the text removed from them in each LED state, used as background to a span, where the text is overlaid on that background, thereby looking like a specific button. I've not tried this, as I can't seem to find how to make a span have a background and <div>... a <div> won't stay where I want it (not left or right, but right there, or else refrain from breaking the lines if it's not floated.
I'm not opposed to putting a table inline, either. If I knew how...
I hope I'm missing something. In which case, help! Or is this impossible, and the only solution is to screen-cap the many, many buttons in each of their various states (some actually display multiple LED colors for various settings, worse yet) and then drop the images in where I want them? Because although I could do that, it's awfully clumsy and effort intensive. :(
Introducing the pseudo element "before"! Ta-da!
<p>Green button</p>
<span class="myButton greenbutton">RUN</span>
<p>Red button</p>
<span class="myButton redbutton">RUN</span>
<p>Click this purple button <span class="myButton purplebutton">RUN</span> here.</p>
<style>
span.myButton {
display:inline-block;
border-top: 2px solid #eee;
border-left: 2px solid #eee;
border-right: 2px solid #000;
border-bottom: 2px solid #000;
padding:1px 2px 0;
background: #dde;
width:20px;
height:auto;
font-size:10px;
font-family:monospace;
text-align:center;
}
span.myButton:before {
display:block;
margin:2px auto 0;
width: 16px;
height: 5px;
border: 1px solid #000;
content: "";
}
span.greenbutton:before {background:#99FF00;}
span.redbutton:before {background:#FF0043;}
span.purplebutton:before {background:#A200C1;}
</style>
Updated answer: I changed the display on the span to inline-block, so it will go inside a paragraph. I missed that requirement on my previous answer.
I added a class to each span, so that all spans in your document won't be affected, just the ones with that class.
Technically, if you are going to have more than one green button, you shouldn't use an ID for it. ID's are supposed to be unique and therefore only used once in a document. So I've also converted that to a class.
in CSS, the period denotes a class, as opposed to the # sign denoting an id. Ergo: span.myButton targets the span with class "myButton". span.greenbutton targets a span with the class greenbutton. You can have more than one class on an element.
I took the background-color property out of the span:before style, and put it in a class specific style -> span.greenbutton:before. Basically, the classes for the span.myButton and the pseudo element span.myButton:before are the same for all these buttons. But for each color, put an additional class on the span, and create a style with that class for it, using the background color you want. Hope that's clear. Fiddle updated too.
https://jsfiddle.net/maguijo/05zwwjy6/
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I'm working on page in Word press. The theme buttons aren't what i was looking for so i decided to make a custom ones. I thought it would be simple:
<button type="button" class="btn menu-button">BUY</button>
and css:
.btn{
font-size: large;
background: transparent;
border: solid;
}
So here is where my problem occur.
Some of the css code is working just fine (font-size for example) but the borders won't show up no matter what. I thought that the problem lies in the button tag itself but after futher investigations i noticed that it happens for every html element on my page, no matter div, p, H - the border stylization is not working neither color choice nor size, style etc.
So please help me, how can i make not only some but every css line work.
Im using WP 5.5.3 with customify theme. I've put The css from above into the custom css tab.
Borders usually require the border-style in order to have any of the other border styling properties to work. Try replacing with:
border-style:solid;
Alternatively, you can add them all to one line allowing you to omit the border-style by adding something along the lines of:
border: 1px solid black;
When using a class structure for a something like a button is there a way to specify which classes should be grouped together?
For example if I have the following:
<style>
.button {
height: 32px;
width: 16px;
}
.blue.bg {
background: blue;
}
.white.bg {
background: white;
}
.blue.text {
color: blue;
}
.white.text {
color: white;
}
</style>
<a class="blue bg white text button">Click me</a>
In this example the colors blue and white don't know if they are attached to the text or the background. This means sometimes the button will render as a blue button with blue text, a blue button with white text, a white button with blue text, or a white button with white text.
I'm wonder if there is a way to specify which classes are grouped together, like:
class="'blue bg' 'white text'"
or
class="(blue bg) (white text)"
or
class="blue bg" class="white text"
or
class="blue bg, white text"
etc...
YES, I know you can make the class names more specific (like bg-blue, text-white) but my entire CSS framework is focused around semantic naming of classes.c
You can group classes together on an element just as you have done on the a tag. However, you can't take that group and sub-group it again.
Also, your class names are not semantic; using names such as "blue" or "white" are too specific. What if one day, you decide you'd like all those "blue" buttons to now be red? You could just change the color value on your "blue" class in your CSS, but then you'd end up with a class named "blue" that applies red text. You see what I'm getting at?
Also, why not make one class that contains a grouping of text and background styles for every combination you want instead of trying to sub-group them on the element?
Here is an article that explains semantic markup well:
http://css-tricks.com/semantic-class-names/
As I described in my comment above, what you are doing is NOT semantic markup. Semantic markup focuses on functionality, not the display. So having
<div class="modal">
<h1 class="hd">My Modal</h1>
<p class="body">Hello there! Welcome to this site</p>
</div>
would be semantic, because each element and class describe what the content does. In the case above, we are describing a modal that contains a header and some main (body) text. Now you can add CSS to those classes as you desire:
.modal {
position: absolute;
top: 100px;
left: 100px;
background: #ccc;
}
.modal h1 {
font-size: 15px;
color: green;
}
Now, let's say you want to change the background of all your modals to green, you just have to change that description in one place. Also, since you didn't describe the background color in the class name, you will never get into the situation where you have a class name is in contrast with the actual CSS (like it could happen after a site redesign).
More importantly, if you describe what the functionality is, rather than the look, you can have different designs with the same markup. Take responsive design for example. Let's say you want a gray background for the modal on all devices above 600px width and a blue background for all other screens, you can easily overwrite the background in the media query.
What you are trying to do is called Atomic CSS. While there are pros and cons to that approach, you would never go as far as you described above. It doesn't really make any sense. What would a bg class do without a color class? What does a white class do without a class that describes what is white. If you want to always group them together, then why not do .bg-blue and .text-white? You are already doing it in your example anyway, just with "dots" instead of "dashes".
So to answer your question: No, you can't group class names together. You need to make specific unique class names for every combination.
I have an HTML form with a bunch of input fields (of type text and select). I am floating them such that there are two on each row. In all browsers (including IE7), everything works okay, but for some reason in IE8, whenever I click inside any of the fields or their labels, that field or a surrounding one vertically moves up or down. The position then returns to normal once I click away from the box, though then another nearby box might move. Also, not all of the textbox fields have this issue, and clicking the same textbox doesn't always cause this issue. Any ideas?
I had the exact same problem, and to fix it, I set
display:block
On the element that was jumping around and that fixed it. Hope that helps.
Problem is when you focus an input text element, your browser puts 2px border around it for focus which is shifting its position if it is contained in a tight container...
I think it is more related to having 2px border all the times. Use the same color border and your text field to have transparent borders...
Your problem is addressed on this question
StackOverflow Question when focusing an input field border 8270380
This is speculation, but since focusing in an element seems to trigger the shifting, you may have different styles applied to those focused elements. Increased margins or borders could be responsible.
Not a big deal just put:-
outline: none;
in input tags
input {
width: 100%;
padding: 10px;
border: 1px solid #ddd;
display: block;
border-radius: 5px;
outline: none;
}
if you want to have a border of your own then put
input:focus {
border: 2px solid salmon;
color: #333;
}
I think your structure conflicting with your parent structure CSS (there may possible is you using third party plugin something like jQuery UI or else) do one thing just for confirmation cut or copy your conflicting code and paste out side of you parent structure or beginning of your body tag. you find the difference.
For proper help I want to review you code.
Thnx
I have a horizontal navigation bar that when one of the links are selected the link then becomes bold. However, when I click on one, the item to the right of it move position because the font gets larger thus making the width of the list item larger. Is there anyway to avoid this? I would like the text to stay in the same place. Thank you.
Two possible solutions:
Set a width on the a elements and make them inline-block.
a {
width: 100px;
display: inline-block;
}
You just have to make sure the width is wide enough allow the bolded text to show without breaking to two lines.
Second option: use a text shadow to make it look bold.
a.bolded {
text-shadow:0px 0px 1px black;
}
Here's a demo showing both. I have the second one on hover but you can add or remove the class using jQuery's .toggleClass()
There are two important events that you should target, when writing CSS for cases link this.
One is :hover and the other is :active.
They are called "Pseudo classes", and they give you the option to set the style of an element when you mouse-over it (:hover) and when you click on it (:active).
If you set the style of the a tag the same as active and hover (usually only hover is needed), then you should get the same results and the font size will stay the same.
Here's and example:
a, a:hover, a:active { font: normal 13px Arial; text-decoration: none; }
In a single CSS line, you could set all the styles to be the same.
Important note: you could use jquery, but there's no need for it (just saw you were using it on jsfiddle).
I'd like to know how to do something like this in CSS:
How is it possible to change the text color halfway through like that on an <input> tag ? I've done a View Source already, but it's hard to make sense of.
Google uses two divs which are absolutely positioned on top of the input box. The first div contains the word stackoverflow, and the text is styled in a light gray. The second dvi contains "stacko" and the text is black.
If you inspect the source, look for divs with class="gsfi".
First off, look into implementing autocompletion. This should give you another element [beneath the one the user types; probably another div] for styling.
its not purely a CSS thing, you need JS too.
Have a look at this autocomplete demo: http://www.pengoworks.com/workshop/jquery/autocomplete.htm
Now you could use CSS for styling text selections in that input to gray the text out.
like this:
::selection {
color: white;
background-color: red;
}
::-moz-selection {
color: white;
background-color: red;
}