I have an image and at the bottom I want to display some text. If the text is more than one line the text should expand to the top.
<style>
.image-wrapper td{
position: relative;
}
.image-wrapper td div {
bottom: 0;
font-size: 12px;
line-height: 12px;
maring: 0 12px;
position: absolute;
}
.image-wrapper td div.left {
text-align: left
}
.image-wrapper td div.right {
text-align: right;
}
.image-wrapper td div.light {
color: #FFF;
}
.image-wrapper td div.dark {
color: #ddd;
}
</style>
<table class="image-wrapper">
<tr>
<td>
<img src="img/path/to/img.png">
<div class="">Text at bottom</div>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
The Result looks like this:
Chrome, IE 11, Firefox >= 30: Correct Display Image
Firefox < 30: Wrong Display
What do I have to change to make it also looking correctly for Firedox < 30?
Is it possible with CSS or do I have to use JavaScript?
Greetings
Sören
You problem boils down to HTML/CSS not supporting positioning inside table cells.
Many modern browsers seem to have added support, but older browsers like IE (and perhaps Firefox < 30, not sure) just don't support it. You can try and wrap your div in another div, and give the wrapper a position of relative to set a positioning context, but again this only works sometimes. Here's an article on that hack: http://css-tricks.com/absolutely-position-element-within-a-table-cell/.
I'd suggest ditching your table and using div-based layout instead.
Related
I want to create a line with circles. Can this be done with background-repeat? Or do I need to set a picture as background? The circles should have a 5px radius.
p:after {
content: '';
background: 'rounded div of size 10x10px' repeat-x
width: 50%;
}
This is the only solution without using background-image or border-image encoded in base64 or using external files.
https://jsfiddle.net/3r6xsr0m/
html:
<div class="line"></div>
css:
.line:before {
content: "..................................................................................................";
display: block;
font-size: 60px;
font-family: Georgia;
color: #aaa;
max-width: 100%;
overflow: hidden;
}
Dots may differ depending of browser font rendering algorithm.
You'll have to create a 10px x 10px image of the dot and then use your method of repeating the background using either pseudo or just a new element. I'd go with a new div element if you can to prevent any issues across browsers like IE8. You'll also have to give your element a width if you go pseudo.
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.
It should be simple to center text in a button. Unfortunately, across different browsers and platforms, I get different results.
I've tried for hours to fix it, but nothing works everywhere.
Chrome, mac OS X:
(source: d.pr)
Chrome, Windows 8
(source: d.pr)
IE 10, Windows 8
(source: d.pr)
So, yeah. The big block doesn't appear in IE if I set a defined height, but I don't get why it breaks down in the first place.
Here's the code:
.btn-call-to-action {
background: #8e8287;
margin-bottom: 15px;
color: #f5f3e2;
padding: 3px 18px 3px 10px;
margin-top: 6px;
display: inline-block;
position: relative;
border-bottom: none;
border-radius: 2px;
white-space: nowrap;
.btn-call-to-action a:after {
content: url('../img/general-white-arrow.svg?1369574895');
position: absolute;
width: 35px;
right: 15px;
top: 0px; }
and the HTML (pretty simple) :
Want more ?
and the site: http://aurelieremia.be/tfa/
// edit: I think I get it. Still not centered in windows but by resetting the line height, the button looks a bit more normal. IE problem resolved, I'll try using a background-image instead (thanks Ana)
I'm not sure if this will help but cross browser centering in css is a big pain so I use Twitter Bootstrap and overwrite some of the classes.
If this sounds like something you'd consider you can check out the solution here
Leave :after in static .
vertical-align to middle or explicite value (depends of where really stand arrow in svg/img).
white-space:nowrap to parent box to secure, but not necessary:
http://codepen.io/gcyrillus/pen/vzrGj
How about something like this:
HTML:
<a href="about.html">
<div class="btn-call-to-action">
<span>Want more? <img src="http://bkids.sisuweb.co/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/postArrowR.png" />
</span>
</div>
</a>
CSS:
.btn-call-to-action{
width:160px;
height:80px;
background: #8e8287;
padding: 3px 18px 3px 10px;
margin:8px;
color: #f5f3e2;
border-radius: 2px;
display:table;
text-align:center;
}
.btn-call-to-action span{
display:table-cell;
vertical-align:middle;
}
Fiddle here: http://jsfiddle.net/MQHVE/3/
The important part here is to have the wrapper (the a tag) display:table and the content (span) display:table-cell. Then you can apply vertical-align:middle to the span.
I have a container with two basic elements. A header and the body. In the header div I want a 50px by 50px image and a user name next to it, but I can't seem to get the username to display inline. What am I doing wrong? http://jsfiddle.net/FqW9d/14/
Add a float: left to both elements. Like:
#story-teller-head-contain img{
float: left;
/* your other styling */
}
#story-teller-head-contain h1 {
float: left;
/* your other styling */
}
Add a float left to the image and the div containing the name, I have updated your jsFiddle here http://jsfiddle.net/FqW9d/15/
can you use inline-block instead inline for the div with username or float bot img and `div.
Demo with inline-block: http://jsfiddle.net/FqW9d/16/
Demo with float: http://jsfiddle.net/FqW9d/17/
Inline display can be a bit of a pain. The cross browser way to do it is like this..
/* Older version of FF */
display: -moz-inline-stack;
/* newer versions of FF and Webkit */
display: inline-block;
/* trigger the correct behaviour in IE */
zoom:1;
/* IE */
*display: inline;
You need to declare the style sin that order.
As everyone else is saying make the image and persons name float: left;
http://jsfiddle.net/FqW9d/20/
By the way, i really like the set up you did here. So i messed with your source some:
http://jsfiddle.net/FqW9d/22/
You've got the following structure (I've added an image url so we can see that element):
<div id="story-teller-head-contain">
<img src="http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/e1122386990776c6c39a08e9f5fe5648?s=128&d=identicon&r=PG"/>
<div id="client-name">
<h1> Matt Morris </h1>
</div>
</div>
The div elements and h1 are all block-level elements by default. However, all you need to do is float: left the img and #client-name elements, and they will flow left to their width (which you declare), without forcing the next element to flow beneath.
#story-teller-head-contain img {
float: left;
height: 50px;
width: 50px;
}
#client-name {
float: left;
height: 50px;
width: 200px;
}
#story-teller-head-contain h1 {
margin: 0px 0px 0px;
padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
font-family: 'helvetica neue', arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
color: #3B5998;
}
http://jsfiddle.net/FqW9d/21/
So you're not really looking for display: inline, which will attempt to display the element's as "inline text" is displayed (such as this paragraph text); what you want is for the img and #client-name elements to not "force clear after". Your display: inline is what is allowing the h1, which is a block-level element, to disrupt your display, since it is overriding the display: inline of the parent element.
In fact, if you inspect with Firebug or Chrome Console, you'll see the above computes as float: left and display: block, even though display: block has not been explicitly declared.
See:
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/visuren.html#floats
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/css-floats-101/
http://www.quirksmode.org/css/clearing.html
http://css-tricks.com/all-about-floats/
I feel its better to use -
img{
float:left;
}
#client-name{
display: table-cell;
zoom:1;/*For IE only*/
}
You don't have to specify widths like in float method. It will automatically accommodate text with varying length.
I have updated your code - http://jsfiddle.net/FqW9d/27/
But I think your structure & css could be much more simpler. Since I don't know about the purpose, left it untouched.
Ok, I had a simple layout problem a week or two ago. Namely sections of a page needed a header:
+---------------------------------------------------------+
| Title Button |
+---------------------------------------------------------+
Pretty simple stuff. Thing is table hatred seems to have taken over in the Web world, which I was reminded of when I asked Why use definition lists (DL,DD,DT) tags for HTML forms instead of tables? Now the general topic of tables vs divs/CSS has previously been discussed, for example:
DIV vs Table; and
Tables instead of DIVs.
So this isn't intended to be a general discussion about CSS vs tables for layout. This is simply the solution to one problem. I tried various solutions to the above using CSS including:
Float right for the button or a div containing the button;
Position relative for the button; and
Position relative+absolute.
None of these solutions were satisfactory for different reasons. For example the relative positioning resulted in a z-index issue where my dropdown menu appeared under the content.
So I ended up going back to:
<style type="text/css">
.group-header { background-color: yellow; width: 100%; }
.group-header td { padding: 8px; }
.group-title { text-align: left; font-weight: bold; }
.group-buttons { text-align: right; }
</style>
<table class="group-header">
<tr>
<td class="group-title">Title</td>
<td class="group-buttons"><input type="button" name="Button"></td>
</tr>
</table>
And it works perfectly. It's simple, as backward compatibile as it gets (that'll work probably even on IE5) and it just works. No messing about with positioning or floats.
So can anyone do the equivalent without tables?
The requirements are:
Backwards compatible: to FF2 and IE6;
Reasonably consistent: across different browsers;
Vertically centered: the button and title are of different heights; and
Flexible: allow reasonably precise control over positioning (padding and/or margin) and styling.
On a side note, I came across a couple of interesting articles today:
Why CSS should not be used for layout; and
Tables vs CSS: CSS Trolls begone
EDIT: Let me elaborate on the float issue. This sort of works:
<html>
<head>
<title>Layout</title>
<style type="text/css">
.group-header, .group-content { width: 500px; margin: 0 auto; }
.group-header { border: 1px solid red; background: yellow; overflow: hidden; }
.group-content { border: 1px solid black; background: #DDD; }
.group-title { float: left; padding: 8px; }
.group-buttons { float: right; padding: 8px; }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="group-header">
<div class="group-title">This is my title</div>
<div class="group-buttons"><input type="button" value="Collapse"></div>
</div>
<div class="group-content">
<p>And it works perfectly. It's simple, as backward compatibile as it gets (that'll work probably even on IE5) and it just works. No messing about with positioning or floats.</p>
<p>So can anyone do the equivalent without tables that is backwards compatible to at least FF2 and IE6?</p>
<p>On a side note, I came across a couple of interesting articles today:</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Thanks to Ant P for the overflow: hidden part (still don't get why though). Here's where the problem comes in. Say I want the title and button to be vertically centered. This is problematic because the elements are of different height. Compare this to:
<html>
<head>
<title>Layout</title>
<style type="text/css">
.group-header, .group-content { width: 500px; margin: 0 auto; }
.group-header { border: 1px solid red; background: yellow; overflow: hidden; }
.group-content { border: 1px solid black; background: #DDD; }
.group-header td { vertical-align: middle; }
.group-title { padding: 8px; }
.group-buttons { text-align: right; }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<table class="group-header">
<tr>
<td class="group-title">This is my title</td>
<td class="group-buttons"><input type="button" value="Collapse"></td>
</tr>
</table>
<div class="group-content">
<p>And it works perfectly. It's simple, as backward compatibile as it gets (that'll work probably even on IE5) and it just works. No messing about with positioning or floats.</p>
<p>So can anyone do the equivalent without tables that is backwards compatible to at least FF2 and IE6?</p>
<p>On a side note, I came across a couple of interesting articles today:</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>
which works perfectly.
There is nothing wrong with using the tools that are available to you to do the job quickly and correctly.
In this case a table worked perfectly.
I personally would have used a table for this.
I think nested tables should be avoided, things can get messy.
Just float left and right and set to clear both and you're done. No need for tables.
Edit: I know that I got a lot of upvotes for this, and I believed I was right. But there are cases where you simply need to have tables. You can try doing everything with CSS and it will work in modern browsers, but if you wish to support older ones... Not to repeat myself, here the related stack overflow thread and rant on my blog.
Edit2: Since older browsers are not that interesting anymore, I'm using Twitter bootstrap for new projects. It's great for most layout needs and does using CSS.
Float title left, float button right, and (here's the part I never knew until recently) - make the container of them both {overflow:hidden}.
That should avoid the z-index problem, anyway. If it doesn't work, and you really need the IE5 support, go ahead and use the table.
This is kind of a trick question: it looks terribly simple until you get to
Say I want the title and button to be vertically centered.
I want to state for the record that yes, vertical centring is difficult in CSS. When people post, and it seems endless on SO, "can you do X in CSS" the answer is almost always "yes" and their whinging seems unjustified. In this case, yes, that one particular thing is hard.
Someone should just edit the entire question down to "is vertical centring problematic in CSS?".
In pure CSS, a working answer will one day be to just use "display:table-cell". Unfortunately that doesn't work across current A-grade browsers, so for all that you might as well use a table if you just want to achieve the same result anyway. At least you'll be sure it works far enough into the past.
Honestly, just use a table if it's easier. It won't hurt.
If the semantics and accessibility of the table element really matter to you, there is a working draft for making your table non-semantic:
http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria/#presentation
I think this requires a special DTD beyond XHTML 1.1, which would just stir up the whole text/html vs application/xml debate, so let's not go there.
So, on to your unresolved CSS problem...
To vertically align two elements on their center: it can be done a few different ways, with some obtuse CSS hackery.
If you can fit within the following constraints, then there is a relatively simple way:
The height of the two elements is fixed.
The height of the container is fixed.
The elements will be narrow enough not to overlap (or can be set to a fixed width).
Then you can use absolute positioning with negative margins:
.group-header { height: 50px; position: relative; }
.group-title, .group-buttons { position: absolute; top: 50%; }
# Assuming the height of .group-title is a known 34px
.group-title { left: 0; margin-top: -17px; }
# Assuming the height of .group-buttons is a known 38px
.group-buttons { right: 0; margin-top: -19px; }
But this is pointless in most situations... If you already know the height of the elements, then you can just use floats and add enough margin to position them as needed.
Here is another method which uses the text baseline to vertically align the two columns as inline blocks. The drawback here is that you need to set fixed widths for the columns to fill out the width from the left edge. Because we need to keep the elements locked to a text baseline, we can't just use float:right for the second column. (Instead, we have to make the first column wide enough to push it over.)
<html>
<head>
<title>Layout</title>
<style type="text/css">
.group-header, .group-content { width: 500px; margin: 0 auto; }
.group-header { border: 1px solid red; background: yellow; }
.valign { display: inline-block; vertical-align: middle; }
.group-content { border: 1px solid black; background: #DDD; }
.group-title { padding: 8px; width: 384px; }
.group-buttons { padding: 8px; width: 84px; text-align: right; }
</style>
<!--[if lt IE 8]>
<style type="text/css">
.valign { display: inline; margin-top: -2px; padding-top: 1px; }
</style>
<![endif]-->
</head>
<body>
<div class="group-header">
<div class="valign">
<div class="group-title">This is my title.</div>
</div><!-- avoid whitespace between these! --><div class="valign">
<div class="group-buttons"><input type="button" value="Collapse"></div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="group-content">
<p>And it works perfectly, but mind the hacks.</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>
The HTML: We add .valign wrappers around each column. (Give them a more "semantic" name if it makes you happier.) These need to be kept without whitespace in between or else text spaces will push them apart. (I know it sucks, but that's what you get for being "pure" with the markup and separating it from the presentation layer... Ha!)
The CSS: We use vertical-align:middle to line up the blocks to the text baseline of the group-header element. The different heights of each block will stay vertically centered and push out the height of their container. The widths of the elements need to be calculated to fit the width. Here, they are 400 and 100, minus their horizontal padding.
The IE fixes: Internet Explorer only displays inline-block for natively-inline elements (e.g. span, not div). But, if we give the div hasLayout and then display it inline, it will behave just like inline-block. The margin adjustment is to fix a 1px gap at the top (try adding background colors to the .group-title to see).
I would recommend not using a table in this instance, because that is not tabular data; it's purely presentational to have the button located at the far right. This is what I'd do to duplicate your table structure (change to a different H# to suit where you are in your site's hierarchy):
<style>
.group-header { background: yellow; zoom: 1; padding: 8px; }
.group-header:after { content: "."; display: block; height: 0; clear: both; visibility: hidden; }
/* set width appropriately to allow room for button */
.group-header h3 { float: left; width: 300px; }
/* set line-height or margins to align with h3 baseline or middle */
.group-header input { float: right; }
</style>
<div class="group-header">
<h3>This is my title</h3>
<input type="button" value="Collapse"/>
</div>
If you want true vertical alignment in the middle (ie, if the text wraps the button is still middle-aligned with respect to both lines of text), then you either need to do a table or work something with position: absolute and margins. You can add position: relative to your drop-down menu (or more likely its parent) in order to pull it into the same ordering level as the buttons, allowing you to bump it above them with z-index, if it comes to that.
Note that you don't need width: 100% on the div because it's a block-level element, and zoom: 1 makes the div behave like it has a clearfix in IE (other browsers pick up the actual clearfix). You also don't need all those extraneous classes if you're targeting things a bit more specifically, although you might need a wrapper div or span on the button to make positioning easier.
Do a double float in a div and use the clearfix. http://www.webtoolkit.info/css-clearfix.html Do you have any padding/margin restrictions?
<div class="clearfix">
<div style="float:left">Title</div>
<input type="button" value="Button" style="float:right" />
</div>
<div class="group-header">
<input type="button" name="Button" value="Button" style="float:right" />
<span>Title</span>
</div>
I've chose to use Flexbox, because it made things so much easier.
You basically need to go to the parent of the children you want to align and add display:box (prefixed of course). To make them sit in the sides, use justify-content. Space between is the right thing when you have elements which need to be aligned to the end, like in this case (see link)...
Then the vertical align issue. Because I made the parent of the two elements, you want to align a Flexbox. It's easy now to use align-items: center.
Then I added the styles you wanted before, removed the float from the title and button in the header and added a padding:
.group-header, .group-content {
width: 500px;
margin: 0 auto;
}
.group-header{
border: 1px solid red;
background: yellow;
overflow: hidden;
display: -webkit-box;
display: -moz-box;
display: box;
display: -webkit-flex;
display: -moz-flex;
display: -ms-flexbox;
display: flex;
-webkit-justify-content: space-between;
-moz-justify-content: space-between;
-ms-justify-content: space-between;
-o-justify-content: space-between;
justify-content: space-between;
webkit-align-items: center;
-moz-align-items: center;
-ms-align-items: center;
-o-align-items: center;
align-items: center;
padding: 8px 0;
}
.group-content{
border: 1px solid black;
background: #DDD;
}
.group-title {
padding-left: 8px;
}
.group-buttons {
padding-right: 8px
}
See Demo
I agree that one should really only use tables for tabular data, for the simple reason that tables don't show until they're finished loading (no matter how fast that is; it's slower that the CSS method). I do, however, feel that this is the simplest and most elegant solution:
<html>
<head>
<title>stack header</title>
<style type="text/css">
#stackheader {
background-color: #666;
color: #FFF;
width: 410px;
height: 50px;
}
#title {
color: #FFF;
float: left;
padding: 15px 0 0 15px;
}
#button {
color: #FFF;
float: right;
padding: 15px 15px 0 0;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="stackheader">
<div id="title">Title</div>
<div id="button">Button</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
The button function and any extra detail can be styled from this basic form. Apologies for the bad tags.