I am coding an MVC 5 view, and I am after some text colored green, the same as the class="text-success" Bootstrap class on the same line as normal text.
Here is what I have coded currently:
Test Text: <p class="text-success">Yes</p>
This however, displays the green "Yes" on the next line down rather than on the same line as the "Test Text:".
How can I display the text on one line?
That should do the trick :
<p>Test Text: <span class="text-success">Yes</span></p>
Explanation :
<p> is a block element, hence displaying in its block taking the whole width (if not specified otherwise in the CSS), with a new line before and after.
<span> is an inline element, taking only the width that's needed and not forcing any new line.
The difference between inline and block is a very important thing in HTML/CSS. You will also discover other values for the css display property, a very usefull one being inline-block that puts together some benefits of block and some others from inline.
You can use CSS to change the way <p> is displayed. The normal mode is block; changing to inline will prevent the line break.
p.text-success {
display: inline;
}
Test Text:
<p class="text-success">Yes</p>
The fix of this issue is simple: just use <span> instead of <p>:
Test Text: <span class="text-success">Yes</span>
The reason behind this is, that the the tag <p> is defined as paragraph and causes a line break automatically (if definition was not changed through CSS).
The <span> tag instead is a simple text span and does not cause a line break.
Additionally you can also add <nobr> around it, to force to browser to not make a line break (no br stands for no line break):
<nobr>Test Text: <span class="text-success">Yes</span></nobr>
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I'm using pre tags to display code. I want to show some of the code as green. But when I put a <div> tag around the code I want green, it also does things like adds newlines, swallows spacing, et cetera. How do I get the styling to only change the color?
Here's my minimum example. If I have this text in an html file;
<pre>Some space <div style="background-color:#e6ffed;">then</div> more text.</pre>
and open it in chrome, it rendered as
Some space
then
more text.
(where the "then" line is green, as desired).
Just use a <span> instead, since it is an inline element.
A <div> is inherently a block element, so it will behave just as you see here.
You can learn more about them here.
I've read and visited a lot of websites, but none of them have provided me with a simple solution. What i want to know is what's the best way to add/skip a line in html? What I mostly use is two <br /> tags, but I know that there is a simpler solution to the problem. Is there a way to skip a line, using css, instead of doing this:
<p>Hello. <br /><br />This is a test</p>
You could simply use 2 separate paragraph (<p>) tags. For example:
<p>Hello.</p>
<p>This is a test</p>
Here's a demo.
Semantically, it depends on your purpose. Do whatever's best in the situation. Some examples.
If you literally need to skip a line, that is, have a empty line with nothing on it in your text, then by all means use two <br> elements.
This is one line of text<br>
This is also one line of text<br>
The next line happens to be empty<br>
<br>
And here is another line, not empty<br>
And so on.
However, if you want to create some blank space between two blocks of prose, then the two blocks should be paragraphs, as mentioned in the other answers.
And if the first part is a bunch of individual lines, but the second part is a piece of prose, only the second part needs to be a paragraph. No need to enclose the first part in <p> tags as well. Example:
Add the water to the recipe<br>
Add the salt<br>
<p>Note: stir thoroughly!</p>
If your intention is to actually separate two lines of text, to signify they don't belong together, you can use a <hr>. Make it invisible if you want.
This is some text
<hr style="opacity:0">
This is some unrelated text
If the next line happens to be an introduction to the later half of the text, change it into a <h4> (that is, a header at whatever level you require here).
The last line of the previous section
<h4>Introduction</h4>
The fist line of the next section
This works because headers also have margins built in.
Lastly, if you have an existing piece of html with your two blocks of text already in two HTML elements, you don't necessarily have to change the markup; all you need to do is set top and bottom margins for those elements in the CSS.
Suppose they are in <section>s:
<style>
section {margin:1em 0}
</style>
...
... The last line of the previous section</section>
<section>The fist line of the next section ...
You can surround the 'Hello' with div and add css of maring-bottom for example:
<p>
<div style='margin-bottom: 40px;'>Hello.</div>
This is a test
</p>
I think that using br tag is always a bad idea. Try using paragraphs, css padding, css margin, hr. Try avoiding br because it's not semantic and using the proper tag in your site "helps the search" engines to "understand your site"
<p>Hello. <br /> <br> This is a test</p>
Using block level elements would help. for example, p is a block level element which would give the line break.
so you can have the text in two paragraphs. and have the margin/padding set to the paragraph
using <br> is a bad approach.
Try using this where you want the blank space:
If you want multiple blank spaces, then repeat the code successively like this:
etc.
I have a document like this:
This is some text.<br>
This is some more text.<br>
This is yet some more text.
This renders like this:
This is some text.
This is some more text.
This is yet some more text.
Is there any way to adjust space between lines, but only where the <br>'s appear? The output might look like this:
This is some text.
This is some more text.
This is yet some more text.
This is not the same as double-space, as long lines wrapping on the page would not appear with the extra space.
How can I adjust the amount of space between lines where <br> appears?
It is possible to target a <br> tag with CSS but it will not be very cross-browser compatible and it just isn't a very good idea because anyone looking at your code will assume you haven't got the faintest idea what your doing because there are certainly more appropriate methods to achieve your goal.
br {}
The <br> on it's own has no default height. If you have an HTML page with nothing but a <br> you have an empty page. The style on the <br> tag will be
<!-- HTML -->
<br/>
The page will have this styling
height: auto;
line-height: normal;
max-height: none;
min-height: 0px;
The height of that a <br> tag represents is inherited from the styling of it's parent container. Thus if it is nested within a paragraph; the <br> will equal the height of 1 line of text based on the line-height and font-size of that paragraph.
<!-- HTML -->
<p style="font-size:10px;line-height:1;"><br/></p>
I now have an empty page but the page is 10 pixels tall because I specified that the paragraph should be 10 pixels and even though the paragraph is essentially empty, it's not empty because I have a break. Thus the break is equivalent to the height of 1 line of text.
The current CSS1 properties and values cannot describe the behavior of
the ‘BR’ element. In HTML, the ‘BR’ element specifies a line break
between words. In effect, the element is replaced by a line break.
Future versions of CSS may handle added and replaced content, but
CSS1-based formatters must treat ‘BR’ specially.
- Cascading Style Sheets, Level 1, Section 4.6: 'BR' elements
An appropriate solution would be to separate the upper and lower block into two containers (<p>) and set a margin between the two blocks. If you use a <p> tag you can style the space between paragraphs without adding unwanted space to the top paragraph like this..
// CSS
p + p { margin-top:10px } // for every paragraph that's preceeded by a paragraph add a margin of 10pixels above. this gets every paragraph except the first one.
Or merely adjust the line-height of the text if you don't mind the space between every other line increasing as well
You could potentially also find the pseudo-selector ::first-line useful.
Though I can't fathom why; I do believe in the fact that there can at times always be a good reason to break the rules.. If you absolutely positively are deadset on styling the <br> wrap it in a container and set the line-height of the container.
<div style="line-height:50px;"><br></div>
Yes you can...like by using line-height in css
.test{
line-height:40px;
}
Demo
You can use padding-top also
Demo2
I know there are a lot of "similar" issues here on stackoverflow, but none to answer my dilemma.
The code is like this:
------------CSS--------------
pre{
white-space : pre-wrap;
line-height:75%;
}
-----------HTML--------------
<pre>Some text<br>
second line of text<br>
third line<br>
some longer text that will get wrapped on another line</pre>
I got the text from a database, so I cannot use li or other things...but I must keep the formatting (space indentations, line breaks, everything as it was saved in DB). The problem is that <br> line break is taller than text-wrap line break (which takes its value from css). Any way to control both of them? As I understand, <br> inherits its height value... but I don't from where it inherits that. From the current text, from a parent, from a browser-default setting?
Just remove the <br> tags and keep the line breaks. The pre tag will break the lines where there are line break characters in the text:
<pre>Some text
second line of text
third line
some longer text that will get wrapped on another line
</pre>
Or hide the br tags using CSS:
pre br { display: none; }
To answer your last question: the <br> tag's height (or more accurately, line-height) is inherited from it's parent.
Here is a fiddle as an example: http://jsfiddle.net/ivandurst/7afUZ/
Additionally, you can set the <br> line-height directly, but any value 1em or less won't affect it unfortunately:
br {line-height: 1.5em}
Is there any way purely with CSS (or 'proper' markup) to style the 2nd line of a paragraph when the text wraps to a second line? A well placed <br /> would do it, but I don't believe that's good markup or SEO.
Specifically, say I have a paragraph that is 2 lines long. I would like the 2nd line to have a wider width than the first line. So the paragraph is a little "pyramid-like". But I don't want to use anything that's not a proper way to do this just for beauty's sake.
Example:
<p>I am a very long
sentence where my second line is longer.</p>
You can use the :first-line pseudo-element:
See: http://jsfiddle.net/X33pY/ - resize the window to make a second line in the first paragraph.
p:first-line {
color: red
}
p {
color: blue
}
Just in case, this might be what you're after:
http://jsfiddle.net/qKRh8/
p {
white-space: pre
}
You can use the :first-line pseudo-class to style the first line and, by implication, the second line will fall back to the default styling.
See:
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/selector.html#pseudo-elements