I have a div that I want to behave like an text input field.
Here's the full source code example:
HTML:
<div contenteditable='true'></div>
CSS:
div:empty:before {
content: 'Type here...';
color: #ccc;
}
div{
padding: 4px;
border: 1px solid #ccc;
}
See the fiddle in IE9.
In IE9, the problem is that the keyboard caret is displayed at the end.
In Chrome, the caret is at the beginning, which is correct.
It seems like the problem is that the pseudo :before element is taking up space in IE9. How can I make it take up no space like it does it Chrome (behave like a placeholder)?
To make it work in IE:
div:empty:before {
content: 'Type here...';
color: #ccc;
display: inline-block;
width: 0;
white-space: nowrap;
}
display: inline-block makes it possible to set a width.
width: 0 makes sure that the element does not take up space.
white-space: nowrap forces the text to be in one line (would break lines otherwise because of the limited space)
updated fiddle
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I have a very simple setup, whereby I add a 2px high 'line' under all my A href's, in an :after psuedo element.
The problem is that I want that line to be under each line of text within the a html tag, not just the bottom of the a.
Is there a way to make the :after appear under each line of text, rather than the text block as a whole?
I am not using text-decoration: underline; is because I want to control the look/styling of the underline and also then animate it on hover.
HTML:
Some text here that will wrap onto 2 lines because it is quite long
CSS:
a:after {
content: "";
position: absolute;
width: 100%;
height: 2px;
bottom: 0;
left: 0;
background-color: currentColor;
-webkit-transform: scaleX(1);
transform: scaleX(1);
}
I want the :after line to appear under BOTH lines of text, when it wraps (so appears like a common a link underline), but current it only shows under the A block as a whole...
I want:
Some text that will wrap onto 2 lines
_____________________________________
because it is quite long.
_________________________
What I get:
Some text that will wrap onto 2 lines
because it is quite long.
_____________
ok, probably not the most elegant solution, but you can try with a gradient Background:
.gradientLink{
line-height: 50px;
text-decoration: none;
color: #212121;
padding: 14px 0;
background: linear-gradient(0deg, red 1px, white 1px);
}
https://codepen.io/giannidk/pen/MZGPNX
Try this css code please.
a::after{
max-width: 50%;
border-bottom: 1px solid black;
content: '';
display: block;
}
It will set border after every a tag ,u can manually adjust the border width by changing max-width size.
Why don't you use border instead ?
a{
padding-bottom: 10px;
border-bottom: 1px solid grey;
text-decoration: none;
}
I am afraid you cannot do that with pure CSS. The only solution coming to my mind at this point is to add elements/lines to the dom using javascript:
I would advice subscribing to the 'resize' event on the window and to change the amount of your needed underlines according to the number of lines your a tag takes up.
I currently have an ordered list like this one where the numbers and items are centered and left aligned:
I achieved this using this css:
ol
{
padding-left:1em;
padding-right:1em;
display: inline-block;
text-align: left;
word-break: break-word !important;
/*white-space: nowrap*/
}
The problem I am seeing is that it wraps text strangely - it will wrap list items (create a new line) if they are a certain amount longer than the other list items. This creates things like in the picture above (or in text format):
1.Sleeping
Bags
2.Tent
3.Food
4.Stove
5.Jackets
6.Bug Spray
Notice how the Bags is on a new line, but that is not where the div ends. I tried using white-space: nowrap, but obviously that does what it says and long text then continues beyond the div without breaking.
Also, it may just be some sort of browser glitch because sometimes when I hit back and the page is cached it will load correctly, and in safari instead of chrome it seems to work correctly without white-space: nowrap.
Any help / ideas appreciated, or if it is just some weird unfixable thing, I am sorry
You can try Below code:
working demo
div{text-align:center;}
ol
{
padding-left:1em;
padding-right:1em;
display: inline-block;
text-align: left;
word-break: break-word !important;
/*white-space: nowrap*/
}
Give the list a (bigger) width:
ol {
width: 200px;
... rest of CSS
}
As for debugging, I often add a border: 1px solid red; so you can see how far the element extends. If you add it to the ol you'll see that it's width causes the line break. So making it bigger should do the trick.
I have the following problem: I have to use an HTML->PDF conversion service to render a piece of HTML. However, this service is a bit limited in it's functionality, so I need a way to "work around" it.
I'm mainly just printing text, so it's not a big deal, but the only problem is that I have to print some "unticked" and some "ticked" check boxes, my converter is failing at this. In particular I've tried:
Using the unicode ☐ ("☐") and ☑ ("☑") characters, but the converter doesn't render them (probably the font it's using doesn't
have them)
Using the WingDing characters þ and ¨ but again, the wingding font is not recognized
The converter doesn't support images, so can't just use an image
I was thinking, at this point, to "simulate" a checkbox by using spans with borders, something like:
<span style="border: 1px solid black; height: 12px; width: 12px;"></span>
However, I can't make it look correct (no fault of the converter this time, even browsers show the above as just one vertival line.
Can anyone help me "draw" checkboxes using just "basic" html elements? What would be the cleanest way?
PS: checkboxes need to be inline with the text.
You're on the right track.
Using HTML and CSS:
/* The standalone checkbox square*/
.checkbox {
width:20px;
height:20px;
border: 1px solid #000;
display: inline-block;
}
/* This is what simulates a checkmark icon */
.checkbox.checked:after {
content: '';
display: block;
width: 4px;
height: 7px;
/* "Center" the checkmark */
position:relative;
top:4px;
left:7px;
border: solid #000;
border-width: 0 2px 2px 0;
transform: rotate(45deg);
}
<div class="checkbox"></div> Unchecked<br><br>
<div class="checkbox checked"></div> Checked
The reason YOUR code didn't work was because you were using a span element, which is an inline element. You can use a span for this, but you'll need to add the style of display: block to the element (making it act as a block element instead of an inline element).
The div tag is a block, so no need for setting it's display style. If you would like the div to display inline, set the display: inline-block
Try this :
<div style="border: 1px solid black;
width: 10px;
height: 10px;
display: inline-block;
margin-right: 4px;">
</div>
https://jsfiddle.net/8rt4dqfc/
I have an annoying issue with the html layout of a form. I cannot really change the general setup, since it is part of a huge framework. But I have to "move" a button to a more suitable location. I am close, but not happy with the solution so far. Maybe you can give me some idea in this. Here is a dramatically simplified version to demonstrate my approach:
I have two container divs, top and bottom.
The top container shows a button on the left side. That button is fixed, but can have a different width due to the translation of its label.
The bottom container holds lots of stuff. Amongst that a second button at its top which works fine, but looks wrong. I want to optically move it into the top container, since there is a logical connection to the button in there. Sure, really placing it in there would be the correct solution, but I currently cannot do that. Instead I use a fixed position which works fine, except for the horizontal placement. I have to decide how far pushed from the left to place the button, so that it certainly does not overlap the first button in the container. I obviously have to consider all translations, the result works, but depending on the first buttons label I have an annoying horizontal gap between the two buttons.
I tried to use a pseudo element (::before) on the second button to help with the layout. Since when rendering the view I obviously have the translated label of the first button I can copy that into some property of the second button and use that property in my css to fill a before pseudo element of the second button which has exactly the same length as the first button. That is what is shown in the code example posted below.
What I completely fail to do is to place that pseudo element such that is it left in the top container (so exactly below the first button). The idea is to indirectly place the second button that way. Looks like this is not possible, obviously. But since I am a bloody beginner in markup and styling I thought it might be worth asking here...
Below is some drastically stripped down code to demonstrate my approach.
I create a jsfiddle for you to play around with. Here is the code:
HTML:
<div id="top-container">
<button>multilingual button text</button>
</div>
<div id="bottom-container">
<h2>
Some title opening the bottom container
<span class="into-top-container">
<button id="place-me" reference-text="multilingual button text">button to be placed</button>
</span>
</h2>
<p>Some content</p>
<p>Some content</p>
<p>Some content</p>
</div>
CSS:
body {
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
div {
margin: 0;
padding: 5px;
}
button {
margin: 0;
padding: 5px;
white-space: nowrap;
}
div#top-container {
width: 100%;
border: 1px solid green;
}
div#bottom-container {
width: 100%;
border: 1px solid blue;
}
#place-me {
position: fixed;
top: 0;
left: 400px;
margin: 5px;
background: yellow;
}
#place-me::before {
z-index: 0;
/*visibility: hidden;*/
position: absolute;
content: attr(reference-text);
margin: 0 5px;
padding: 0;
background: gold;
right: 100%;
}
Notes:
that in the above code the second button is placed with left: 400px;. That is more or less what I want to change. But obviously left: 0 is not correct...
the visibility css rule for the pseudo element is currently commented out for demonstration purpose
keep in mind that the second button is *not* contained inside the top container, but actually logically below the title of the bottom container. The goal is to move it optically up into the top container which already is where close to what I want. Except for the horizontal alignment...
Upon request here is a screenshot:
It is taken from the fiddle I posted above. I added the red ellipse which shows what element pair I want to move and the left pointing arrow indicating where I want to move that too. I want to move it exactly that far, that the two tests "multilingual button text" are exactly placed on top of each other, but without specifying an explicit left placement obviously. That is why the pseudo element exists: as a dummy placeholder. I would then hide that pseudo element and have the second button placed exactly right of the first button, regardless of how long the translated text in there is.
So the final result should like like that:
OK, I invested some more time, since this issue popped up again after a regression in our code and I found, as often after allowing some time to pass, a logical and relatively clean solution:
I use the same stripped down code to for demonstration purposes.
The jsfiddle is based on the one provided in the question itself.
HTML: no real change, except for the reference-text having moved from button to container, for the why see below:
CSS:
* {
font-size: 12px;
font-weight: normal;
font-family: Arial;
}
body {
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
font-size: 12px;
font-weight: normal;
}
span,
div {
margin: 0;
padding: 5px;
}
button {
margin: 0;
padding: 5px;
white-space: nowrap;
}
div#top-container {
width: 100%;
border: 1px solid green;
}
div#bottom-container {
width: 100%;
border: 1px solid blue;
}
span.into-top-container {
position: fixed;
top: 0;
left: 0;
pointer-events: none;
border: 1px solid transparent;
}
span.into-top-container::before {
visibility: hidden;
content: attr(reference-text);
position: relative;
margin-right: 5px;
padding: 5px;
border: 2px solid;
background: gold;
}
#place-me {
background: yellow;
pointer-events: all;
}
The basic change in strategy: it is the container holding the button to be placed that has to be positioned in a fixed manner, not that button itself (so the <span class="into-top-container">)! That allows to use the pseudo before element, now also anchored to that container, not the button, to take the space as required without actually getting part of the button itself.
Since that container is now place over the original multilingual button that one is not clickable any more. That issue is fixed by a css pointer-events set to none for the container and set to all for the placed button again. That makes the container itself simply ignore all events (clicks) and have them passed to the original button beneath.
I had to make sure that the font used inside the pseudo element is style exactly like the original multilingual button. That actually makes sense, since the font styling defines the actual width used by that button, so the actual width used by the pseudo element should be defined in exactly the same manner. In the example above I forced that by simply setting all elements font style rules to some fixed values (the initial * {...} in the CSS code). That can obviously also be done right inside the css rules for the pseudo element itself. I chose the more simple and brute variant here to keep the code clean.
I have an input (that holds a number) that I want to put a button next to. This button would, when pressed, increment the value in the box by 1.
I am having a heck of a time lining it up in all browsers though.
I've tried using button, img, and a to accomplish this. img does not line up properly in most of the browsers. Meaning that if I put an input and an img next to each other, the img is a few pixels higher than the input, but that varies by browser. The closest i can get is by making it a button that is styled with css to use my custom image. It works in Chrome, ie7, and ie10. However, in ie8, ie9, and firefox, it is 1 pixel too high, and I can't for the life of me get them to line up.
I read here that floating would make them line up. Sure enough, it did. But now the input and the button are jammed against the edge of the td they're in, and I can't figure out how to move them. Is there perhaps a better method than float? Or just a way to line them up properly?
This is how it is where I am having issues. In Chrome and ie7, ie10 it works fine. It messes up in ie8,9 and firefox.
This is how it looks with floats. It displays right in all the above browsers, but it is now off-center.
Any suggestions?
OK. Here is one way. So I think you might like vertical-align: middle; It only works on inline and inline block elements aligning them to each other. So it's not aligning them inside a box. I made a little sandbox to test your issues HERE. I'm not sure of your constraints, but I use box-sizing: border-box; on most everything these days - So that is something to beware of when looking at the code. I checked it in browser-stack and all seems well for the most part. This is always a difficult task in my experience. I kept to the key points in the CSS below, but there is a bunch of comments and styles and stuff in the codepen. I hope this helps! Good luck!
HTML
<div class="wrapper">
<input class="your-input" type="number" /><button class="your-button">+</button>
</div>
CSS
* {
-moz-box-sizing: border-box;
-webkit-box-sizing: border-box;
box-sizing: border-box;
}
.wrapper {
float: left;
height: 4em; /* needs to be defined in this case so that the children know what they should be 100% height of */
/* just for show */
background-color: lightgray;
border: 1px solid red;
padding: .5em;
}
.your-input, .your-button {
display: inline-block;
/* aligned to each other and not the .wrapper */
height: 100%;
/* already was inline by dephault - but just to be clear */
vertical-align: middle;
}
.your-input {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
width: 20em; /* arbitrary */
text-indent: 1em;
border: 1px solid black;
}
.your-button{
/* whatevers */
background: lightblue;
border: 1px solid black;
border-left: 0;
width: 6em;
border-radius: 0 10px 10px 0;
cursor: pointer;
}
You might want to consider using the bootstrap libraries. See "Prepended and appended inputs" here. They do a great job with browser compatibility. You can further refine the l&f, so that it better matches what you have in your examples.
I came up with a method that fixes my issue, but only for ie8+ which is satisfactory for me.
The structure looks like this:
<input class="add_input" type="text" name="qty" value="0" /><a class="add">
<img src="plus.png"/>
</a>
There cannot be a space or new line between the input and the a or else it will misalign them. The image is simply the "+" by itself, nothing else. Then I use CSS to style the image into the shape I want, with the appropriate :hover and :active selectors.
Here's the CSS:
.add_input{
width:28px;
height:18px;
padding:1px 0;
display:inline-block;
text-align:center;
border:1px solid #0a1c40;
border-right:0;
vertical-align:bottom;
}
.add img{
background:url(add.png);
display:inline-block;
width:18px;
height:20px;
border:1px solid #0b1e45;
border-radius:0px 12px 12px 0px;
vertical-align:bottom;
}
.add img:hover {
background:url(add_hover.png);
}
.add img:active {
background:url(add_active.png);
}
I'm note sure if other vertical-align types would work or not, I just know bottom does.