Context: making printable invoices to generate in a browser.
It's common in making printable webpages to use an #media print rule to change the way the content looks for a printed page. Ideally, because I'm printing only a small part of the page, I'd like to hide everything and then display the contents of a particular element.
Structure is something like this:
<body>
<div id="topMenu">...lots of elements...</div>
<div id="sideMenu">...lots more...</div>
<div class="tools">...some tools...</div>
<div class="printing">...some elements I want to print...</div>
<div class="tools">...more stuff I don't want to print...</div>
</body>
Stuff I've tried:
Ideally, I'd like to do something like
body * {
display: none;
}
.printing, .printing * { /* Both parts are needed to make it display */
display: block !important;
}
But this won't work because some elements need to be inline and some need to be block. I've played with some different values for display from MDN and can't find one that easily resets the value to its original. display: initial seems to be treated like inline.
The suggestion in CSS: "display: auto;"? seems to only work for JS.
Of course, it is possible to explicity "hide" the stuff I don't want printed rather than display the stuff I do want, but it seems to me that it should be possible to go the other way.
In this question How to only show certain parts with CSS for Print? suggests body *:not(.printable *) {display:none;} but notes (as backed up on the w3 negation page ) that this is not yet supported.
I note that the w3 draft and the display-outside page seem to recommend using an unknown (to webkit) box-suppress property to preserve the display value while not displaying the element.
My questions:
What is the best way to hide everything and target certain elements for display when they don't all share a common display property?
What exactly does box-suppress do?
Since you specifically tagged this CSS3, try using CSS3!
body>:not(.printing) {
display: none;
}
This should work for the example you gave. I hope it works for your real-world application!
To answer your auxiliary question, as of October 2014, box-suppress is a possible future replacement for display:none that will hopefully make it easier to both hide and remove elements from the flow without worrying about changing its display type (as opposed to visibility still keeps it in the flow, and position:absolute which still keeps it visible). I don't think it's currently supported so I'd stay away from it for now. If you want to know more, see http://w3.org/TR/css-display
You cannot use display for this purpose. See Display HTML child element when parent element is display:none
However, you can use visibility, as long as you use absolute positioning for the hidden content:
body, body * {
visibility: hidden;
position: absolute;
}
.printing, .printing * {
visibility: visible;
position: relative;
}
If you don't use any absolute or fixed elements, you can use an alternative way of hiding elements.
Instead of using display: none to hide your elements, try using:
body * {
position:absolute;
top: -999999px;
left: -999999px;
}
To set it back use:
.printing, .printing * {
position: initial;
/* OR */
position: static;
}
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Seems that hiding a element can be done 500 ways. I'm looking what what is best for browser compatibility standards, and possibly even performance...
This is what I wish to hide:
<li class="header-menu-user"><a class="header-user" href="/Settings/User/UserProfile">User Settings</a></li>
What I have tried in the past is for another scenario in which I did a display:none on a li with a data- attribute etc..
I just tried to do this and it is not working (not hiding it)
.header-user {
display: none;
}
There are many ways but one of these two usually is appropriate:
display: none;
Will hide the element, meaning surrounding elements will ignore it as if it were not in the DOM, even though it is and you can still target it.
opacity: 0;
Will essentially make the element transparent, not visible but it still occupies space in various layout models.
You can hide a specific <a> tag like this:
li.header-menu-user a[href^="/Settings"] { display: none; }
With just using CSS Display:none; would be the way to go. The only performance impact this is really having is that you are still sending all the content that is hidden to the client browser. If you want to improve performance perhaps consider removing the content on the server side if that is an option for you.
I have a page which generates a phone number in HTML, like this:
<div class="phone">01987123456</div>
What I want is to simply put a space inside the number, like so:
01987 123456
The generated number and HTML will always be the same, but I only have access to client side code (HTML / CSS / Javascript / etc).
I want to find a way of achieving all of this without using Javascript if possible, so Ideally I am looking for an answer in CSS or HTML.
I'm pretty sure this could be done fairly easily in Javascript, but the client wants to make sure the phone number is formatted correctly even if Javascript is disabled (don't ask).
I want the most effective and efficient way of changing the number to what I want. If someone can figure out how to add brackets to the number (like this: (01987) 123456) as well as the space using just CSS/HTML you will immediately get marked as correct as well as my eternal gratitude.
EDIT:
I get that CSS is for design, Ive been a web developer for 15+ years. I could really do with a CSS hack to produce what I want, and explaining to the client the basics of web design is unfortunately not an option (they think they know better and I am in no position to dictate anything to them). I'm in a bit of a nightmare situation, and I need your help!
I know that content can be added to a page with CSS using content. I am aware of the ::first-letter method that #gillesc mentions in the comments. I was hoping something like this might help me.
The client uses modern browsers so a CSS3 solution would be fine.
And no, I cant change the outputted HTML.
I was interested to see if this could be done with CSS, even if it shouldn't be done! The following is quite hacky, ideally the phone number would be formatted server side or, if that isn't an option, with JavaScript.
A few caveats:
This requires an attribute to be added to .phone for the pseudo element to use. This may or may not be a deal breaker given that you seem to have limited access to the HTML
If the phone number is not in a suitable format (e.g. something like 01 987123456) it will not display correctly
A nasty little hack is used for IE as it doesn't calculate the width of the pseudo element correctly using ch for some reason. Credit to SW4 for this: https://stackoverflow.com/a/20541859
A solid background colour is required
The general idea behind this is as follows:
.phone
text-indent: 1ch; on .phone moves the whole text to the left by one character
.phone is set to position: relative; to allow the pseudo element to be positioned relatively to it
white-space: nowrap; ensures that this doesn't wrap onto a new line if there is a break in the number
.phone:before
background-color: white; masks the digits in .phone
border-right: 1ch solid white; hides the sixth digit in .phone, in effect this is the space
content: attr(data-phone); uses the data-phone attribute on .phone to populate the pseudo element with the same number
left: 0;, position: absolute; and top: 0; are used to position the pseudo element
overflow: hidden; hides any characters over the 5 character limit
text-indent: 0; resets text-indent: 1ch; set on .phone
width: 5ch; ensures that the pseudo element is only 5 characters long
The weird media query is the hack to target IE
Tested and working in FF 38.0.5, Chrome 43.0.2357.124 m and IE 11. Browsers not supporting the ch unit (such as Opera 12.17 and Windows Safari 5.1.7) seem to show the phone number in its natural state.
.phone {
position: relative;
text-indent: 1ch;
white-space: nowrap;
}
.phone:before {
background-color: white;
border-right: 1ch solid white;
content: attr(data-phone);
display: block;
left: 0;
overflow: hidden;
position: absolute;
text-indent: 0;
top: 0;
width: 5ch;
}
#media screen and (min-width:0\0) and (min-resolution: +72dpi) {
.phone:before {
width: 5.8ch;
}
}
<div class="phone" data-phone="01987123456">01987123456</div>
JS Fiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/scarjnb1/
It's not possible using CSS, just JavaScript. Then it'd be:
<div id="phone">01987123456</div>
<script>
var el = document.getElementById('phone');
phone.innerText = phone.innerText.replace(/^(\d{5})/, '($1) ');
</script>
I recently had an idea for using the CSS pseudo-class :hover to display a styled tooltip when the mouse is hovered over a link.
The basic code for the link looks like this:
.hasTooltip {
position:relative;
}
.hasTooltip span {
display:none;
}
.hasTooltip:hover span {
display:block;
background-color:black;
border-radius:5px;
color:white;
box-shadow:1px 1px 3px gray;
position:absolute;
padding:5px;
top:1.3em;
left:0px;
max-width:200px; /* I don't want the width to be too large... */
}
This link has a tooltip!<span>This is the tooltip text!</span>
The result is exactly what I want, but with one annoying problem: the span does not expand to accommodate text, and if I don't specify a width, the text is squashed.
I did some searching on Google, found a couple examples of work people had done (this example is creepily similar to what I've gotten), but no one seems to have addressed the span width problem I'm having.
I know this answer is extremely late, but it appears the key to your issue would be to use:
white-space: nowrap;
inside of your span, and get rid of any sort of width definition. Of course the drawback to this will be that the tooltip will only be able to support a single line. If you want a multiline solution you will most likely have to use javascript.
Here is an example of of this method:
http://jsbin.com/oxamez/1/edit
An added bonus is that this works all the way down to IE7. If you do not need to support IE7, I would suggest folding the span, and img styles into a :before, and :after for the .tooltip. Then you can populate the text using the data-* attribute.
I don't think there's a perfect solution to this problem with pure CSS. The first problem is that when you place the span inside the a tag the span only wants to expand as far as the width of the link. If you place the span after the the a it's possible to get close to what you're trying to do but you'll have to set the margin-top: 1.3em and then have to set a negative margin to slide the tooltip left. However, it's going to be a fixed setting so it won't sit exactly at the start of each link.
I whipped up a jQuery solution that sets left dynamically (and a nice little fade effect for good measure).
Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/wdm954/9jaZL/7/
$('.hasTooltip').hover(function() {
var offset = $(this).offset();
$(this).next('span').fadeIn(200).addClass('showTooltip');
$(this).next('span').css('left', offset.left + 'px');
}, function() {
$(this).next('span').fadeOut(200);
});
These tool tips can also be integrated into a word press theme easily. Just copy the CSS into your style. Css file and when creating your posts, just take help of the HTML code and create your own tool tips. Rest is all styling, which can be altered according to your own choice. You may also use images inside the tool tip boxes.
http://www.handycss.com/how/how-to-create-a-pure-css-tooltip/
Even though this question is a bit older already, I would suggest the following compromise:
Just use max-width: 200px; and min-width: 300%; or so,
whereas the min-width could result higher than the max-width.
Just figure it out.
This way you could not have entirely liquid tooltips but the width would stand in kind of a correlation with the width of the containing link element.
In terms of optical pleasantness this approach could be of value.
edit:
Well I must admit it is nonsense what I wrote. When the min-width can be higher than the max-width, there is no sense to it.
So just putting the min-width in percent would achieve what I tried to suggest.
Sorry for that.
I found this and it was working for me. It's a good solution when you have a lot of elements and jquery plugins on the same page and you can't work with
Text <span>Tooltip</span>
View pure CSS solution: JS BIN
Credit to trezy.com
I wonder if there are any possibility to reset css in middle of page? I have main style, but in one area I would like to use style from tinyMCE generated source.
So in tinyMCE source are elements which in editor looks like default browsers style (or like user wants), but in other pages uses style from my main css and from it self inline style. So I get mix of both ant it looks crappy. And I have no idea how to reset main style,.. without iframes.
Thanks
You mean, have a set of CSS rules to apply to the top part of a page, and a reset set of rules apply to the rest? No way, can't be done, sorry.
My approach to stuff like this is usually to embed the problematic content in a wrapper <div class='wysiwyg_html'> and then to set specific styling instructions for that content:
.wysiwyg_html p { display: inline }
.wysiwyg_html a { text-decoration: underline }
.... and so on
If you want, you can apply a whole reset stylesheet to everything inside wysiwyg_html that way.
thats pretty easy, i will show this with the "poorman's" reset but the others (eric mayer's ect.) works the same way:
* {
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
}
div {
padding: 50px;
}
#content *{
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
}
now your div inside the #content should have the reseted padding: 0; again, because an id selector wins over an element selector, so the only thing you need to make sure is that your secound reset has a selector that outweighs the others (but dont use important!).
I have a form where depending on the website's brand one of two input fields should be visible at one given spot.
I figured I just put both input fields in the same container and then through my stylesheet set one of them to display:none;
This does hide the field, but it still makes it take up space.
I also tried setting the height and width to 0 or setting visibility to hidden or collapse but none of those worked.
Untill now all the branding things could be done with css style sheets so I would like to keep it that way.
The solution should at least be supported in IE6 & up, Firefox 2 & up and Chrome (latest).
why don't you use input type="hidden" ?
What about setting the invisible input field to position: absolute; which should take it out of the rendering flow.
However, setting it to display: none should in theory do the same...
<style>
.hideme
{
display:none;
visibility:hidden;
}
.showme
{
display:inline;
visibility:visible;
}
</style>
<input type="text" name="mytext" class="hideme">
You can either set class="hideme" to hide your control or class="showme" to show your control. You can set this toggeling using JavaScript or server side coding.
This does hide the field, but it still
makes it take up space.
This shouldn't happen; display: none should cause the element to not be included in the flow. Check the rest of your CSS (try using Firebug to figure out where the extra "space", which is probably just padding or margin of some surrounding element, is coming from).
Using the visibility property takes up rendering space even if the element is not visible. Instead of using visivility you have to use display property.
You can set the display to none if you want to hide the element and display to block or inline if you want to show them.
To have a look on display check this
If setting your display property doesn't solve your problem, then I think the textboxes might be absolutely positioned. It might be the reason for the layout not to be changed.
Can you please post the complete code?
You can do this if you want to isolate the css code from other input:
input[type="checkbox"] {
display: none;
}
You can also further isolate it from the same type by indicating another class.
I'm not too familiar with CSS, but you can try implementing JQuery which combines Javascript and CSS to let you do stuff like that with relative ease.