bear with me here-- I'm trying to learn HTML/CSS.
I have this how-to site, dropshipstepbystep.com. I wanted to top-line the '3 steps to success' on my home page, so I created custom HTML widgets in the 'Our Focus' section of the Zerif Lite theme. I'm sure the way I did this is pretty terrible, but on my desktop, I've pretty much acheived the look I want.
Now I need to be able to change the way the widgets/blocks appear for smaller screen sizes. I know I can't use inline-CSS for #media, so how should I go about this?
Please explain like I am 5. Thanks in advance!
PS: Don't know if it helps, but here's how I wrote the first custom CSS widget...
<div style= "padding-top: 25px; width: 100%; display: block; margin-bottom: 50px;">
<div style="width:78%; padding-right: 2%; display: inline-block; float: left;">
<h4 style="align: left; line-height:1.5;">Hey! I'm Zach, and I created Dropship Step by Step to show you exactly how I build and execute a dropshipping project in 2017. If you find my content useful, I have two things to ask of you: (1) Share it with anyone you know who would also find it valuable, and (2) if you choose to use a service I recommend, please <u>click</u> the link I provide. Some of the services I recommend pay me referral credits, which is how I keep my content free. If you don't click, they can't track!</h4>
</div>
<div style="width:18%; padding-left: 2%; display: inline-block; float: left; height: 100%; vertical-align: middle;">
<img src="http://www.dropshipstepbystep.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/IMG_4701.png" style="margin-top: -25px; border-radius: 50%;">
</div>
</div>
<div style="display: block;">
<h1 style="padding-top: 50px;"><u>
3 STEPS TO DROPSHIP SUCCESS</u>
</h1>
</div>
<div style= "padding-top: 25px; width: 100%; display: block; margin-bottom: 100px;">
<div style="width:33%; padding-right: 2%; display: inline-block; float: left;">
<img src="http://www.dropshipstepbystep.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Screen-Shot-2017-08-25-at-10.23.39-PM_clipped_rev_1-8.png">
</div>
<div style="width:63%; padding-left: 2%; display: inline-block; float: left;">
<br><h2 style="font-weight: bold;">Find a Product to Sell</h2>
<p style="align: left; line-height:1.5;">I'm going to show you how I find inspiration for product ideas, and how I test my ideas quickly. The goal is to take something generic and cheap looking, then market in a way that will totally change people's perceptions. The dash cam on the left is a perfect example. I get them for $20 and sell them for $60, and they're actually really nice! I use one myself.</p>
<p style="align: left; line-height:1.5;">You can find many inexpensive products to promote for free via AliExpress. Alternatively, SaleHoo will tell you exactly how well products are selling around the web, at what profit margin, and what supplier will dropship them for you ($69/year). Plus,
you can find American-based suppliers, so your customers don't have to wait weeks for products to arrive.</p>
</div>
</div>
The best thing you can use for your problem is the grid system in Bootstrap. You can find the information for this here- https://v4-alpha.getbootstrap.com/layout/grid/
and in various other tutorials.
You basically just have to assign the required space on your screen for the widgets differently for small, extra small and medium sized devices.
Other than this if you want to space your elements on your screen, you can use flexbox for that. There are various tutorials available for this as well.
Both can be used together. I am sure you will be able to solve your problem with Bootstrap.
You should start with learning CSS media queries and how to it for responsive website development. I recommend you can learn it from W3Cschool, below is the reference link:
https://www.w3schools.com/css/css_rwd_mediaqueries.asp
first of all please use CSS from the external file. Currently, you are using inline CSS which is hard to use in #media query.
Once your layout is done then use #media query for different devices.
I have a div that is width 100%: Inside that div I am trying to float the image to the right.
<div class="card-panel valign-wrapper "
style="height: 50px; width: 100%; position: fixed; top: 290px;
background: white; z-index:3; ">
<h5 class="valign" class="right-align">Beer Menu</h5>
<img id = "moreInfo" style="vertical-align: middle; float: right" src="img/more.png"
height="30" width="30">
</div>
I have been playing with chrome inspect element trying a bunch of different ways to float the image to the right end of the screen and leave the text to the left but not working.
Here is an image with surrounding code:
Couple suggestions:
Use a separate CSS file. It will be easier to keep track of your CSS. Different rules might be taking precedence and it will be more clear if you use a separate file. It will also be easier to debug your CSS issue.
I am not sure why you have your with Beer Menu as a part of the class "right-align". Arent you aligning this left and trying to align the image of the three dots right? This is a little confusing.
You can always try the "right:0px;" CSS rule. I cant help you code something that works perfectly without being able to try it myself but that could solve your problem. You could also give "position:absolute;" a shot
Just be sure to clean up your CSS and it will all become easier.
EDIT:
Its not the best but adding this to your image worked for me:
right: 0px;
top: 10px;
position: absolute;
by just looking at that screenshot, you might try to give your img a position of relative. that generally fixes float problems. but don't forget to clearfix your parent element so the div doesn't collapse on itself.
I would also recommend not positioning everything as fixed, usually run into responsive issues with that unless initially positioned by JS, if so, my bad.
but with float issues, its usually positioning that screws it up.
good luck!
This is what I did, and it worked in my browser:
<h5 class="valign right-align" style="float:left">Beer Menu</h5>
While rest of the code remains the same.
Try putting them in a table and align the column content to right. Something like
<table style="width">
<tr>
<td><h5>Beer Menu</h5></td>
<td align="right"><img /></td>
</tr>
In the html below 'Rome' is appearing below 'Place' from the second line, how do I prevent that?
http://jsfiddle.net/JqxTx/21/
Thanks,
Chris.
I would change the span to a block element such as p and then style like
div label {
float: left;
}
div p {
margin-left: 40px;
}
DEMO
You could either go with hanging line indent or CSS3 columns, though regarding the latter you'll have to do some investigation as to whether they're useful in this scenario.
I usually go with old-style
<table>
<tr>
<td><label>Label</label></td>
<td><span>Text</span></td>
</tr>
</table>
since it's simple, it works, and though there's a bit of redundant code, it doesn't promote nesting and it's not that big of a mess.
I still fail to see any good, simple equivalent CSS replacement for this layout scheme.
The best one probably is either
<label style="float: left; width: 20%;">Label</label>
<span style="float: left; width: 80%;">Text</span>
or
<label style="position: absolute; width: 20%;">Label</label>
<span style="display:block; padding-left: 20%;">Text</span>
You could probably find more here or in the answer to this question.
But they're not as good as the table because they don't adapt to the first column's contents.
Hacks like
<label style="float:left; height: 2em;">Label</label>
<span>Text</span>
or
<label style="display:block; float:left;">Label</label>
<span style="display:block; float:left; width:90%;">Text</span>
work but I wouldn't recommend them because they both rely on certain screen dimensions.
G'luck.
http://jsfiddle.net/paislee/JqxTx/22/
Think this will work,as i made it into two blocks.
Just use a table:
<table><tr valign=top><td>Place <td>Rome Rome ... Rome</table>
You may well have several name/value pairs, and then they make an excellent table.
I have some html which looks like this:
<div style="{ display:inline; width: 80px}">fig</div>vitamin c<br>
<div style="{ display:inline; width: 80px}">apple</div>vitamin a<br>
<div style="{ display:inline; width: 80px}">coconut</div>vitamin <br>
in IE.8 this is shown as
fig vitamin
apple vitamin
coconut vitamin
and all of the 'vitamins' are nicely aligned.
in Chrome the gap is not created and therefore it is not nicely rendered.
figvitamin
applevitamin
coconutvitamin
The question is:
is this a problem/bug with Chrome or is it because the html is not correct and ie8 (in this case) just guesses better my intentions ?
Chrome and Firefox are correct. Width is not a valid style property for inline elements. You have several options:
Inline Blocks
You can do this:
<span>fig</span>vitamin<br>
<span>apple</span>vitamin<br>
<span>coconut</span>vitamin
with:
span { display: inline-block; width: 80px; }
You'll notice I used <span> instead of <div>. There is a reason for this. <span>s are naturally display: inline and according to Quirksmode:
In IE 6 and 7 inline-block works
only on elements that have a natural
display: inline.
Firefox 2 and lower don't support this
value. You can use -moz-inline-box,
but be aware that it's not the same as
inline-block, and it may not work as
you expect in some situations.
Floats
You can float the left labels:
<div>fig</div>vitamin<br>
<div>apple</div>vitamin<br>
<div>coconut</div>vitamin
with:
div { float: left; clear: left; width: 80px; }
If the text after the <div> is sufficiently large it will wrap to the beginning of the line (not with the 80px buffer). You might want that or not.
Definition List
Using this markup:
<dl>
<dt>fig</dt><dd>vitamin</dd>
<dt>apple</dt><dd>vitamin</dd>
<dt>coconut</dt><dd>vitamin</dd>
</dl>
with:
dt { float: left; width: 80px; }
Tables
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td class="left">fig</td>
<td>vitamin</td>
</tr>
<td>apple</td>
<td>vitamin</td>
</tr>
<td>coconut</td>
<td>vitamin</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
with:
table { border-collapse: collapse; }
td.left { width: 80px; }
Tables will be by far the most backward compatible solution (going back to IE5 or earlier) so they're still often used in situations where some might argue they aren't appropriate. The ideals of the so-called semantic Web are well-intentioned and worth adhering to where possible but you'll also often end up in situations where you're choosing between "semantic purity" and backwards compatibility so a certain amount of pragmatism needs to prevail.
That being said, unless you're not telling us something, you shouldn't need to go this path if you don't want to.
Lastly, always put a DOCTYPE declaration on your pages. It forces IE from quirks mode to standards compliant mode (both euphemisms). For example:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
...
You could use a div that is floated to the left for the headings - this is popular for two column forms and the like on websites that don't want to use tables, or need more flexibility that the strict layout that a table restricts you to.
<div class="wrapper">
<div style="float: left; width: 80px;">Banana</div>
<div>Vitamin Awesome</div>
</div>
I guess the outer div could be replaced with a <br clear="both" /> afterwards.
I know there is a hr (horizontal rule) in html, but I don't believe there is a vr (vertical rule). Am I wrong and if not, why isn't there a vertical rule?
No, there is no vertical rule.
EDIT: It's 2021 (twelve years after I answered this question), and I no longer think my original explanation is true:
(original explanation)
It does not make logical sense to have one. HTML is parsed
sequentially, meaning you lay out your HTML code from top to bottom,
left to right how you want it to appear from top to bottom, left to
right (generally)
A vr tag does not follow that paradigm.
I'm not sure why a VR tag was never introduced, but it's likely not because of the way HTML is parsed - there are many different layout modes in HTML/CSS now that do not follow this "paradigm".
If I were to now speculate as to why there is no VR tag, I might look at MDN's definition of the HR tag as a clue:
The HTML <hr> element represents a thematic break between
paragraph-level elements: for example, a change of scene in a story,
or a shift of topic within a section.
In practice, however, the <hr> tag often ends up used for things other than it's semantic meaning. Although it may seem based on it's real world use that there should be a <vr> tag, it probably would not resemble anything related to the semantic definition of the <hr> tag. It was probably never thought to be introduced.
My hunch is that the creators would suggest that the domain of the solution for this problem lies in CSS, not HTML (and most of the answers to this SO question reflect that).
Nixinova's solution looks like the most elegant and modern solution to this problem.
(The rest of my old answer follows below):
This is easy to do using CSS, however. Ex:
<div style="border-left:1px solid #000;height:500px"></div>
Note that you need to specify a height or fill the container with content.
You can make a vertical rule like this: <hr style="width: 1px; height: 20px; display: inline-block;">
An <hr> inside a display:flex will make it display vertically.
JSFiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/w6y5t1kL/
Example:
<div style="display:flex;">
<div>
Content
<ul>
<li>Continued content...</li>
</ul>
</div>
<hr>
<div>
Content
<ul>
<li>Continued content...</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
As pointed out by others, the concept of a vertical rule does not fit in with the original ideas behind the structure and presentation of HTML documents. However, these days (especially with the proliferation of web-apps) there are is a small number of scenarios where this would indeed be useful.
For example, consider a horizontal navigation menu fixed at the top of the screen, similar to the menu-bar in most windowed GUI applications. You have several top-level menu items arranged from left-to-right which when clicked open up drop-down menus. Years ago, it was common practice to create this with a single-row table, but this is bad HTML and it is widely recognised that the correct way to go would be a list with heavily customised CSS.
Now, say you want to group similar items, but add a vertical separator in between groups, to achieve something like this:
[Item 1a] [Item 1b] | [Item 2a] [Item 2b]
Using <hr style="width: 1px; height: 100%; ..." /> works, but may be considered semantically incorrect as you are changing what that element is actually for. Furthermore, you can't use this within certain elements where the HTML DTD allows only inline-level elements (e.g. within a <span> element).
A better option would be <span style="display: inline-block; width:1px; height:100%; background:#000; margin: 0 2px;"></span>, however not all browsers support the display: inline-block; CSS property, so the only real inline-level option is to use an image like so:
<img src="pixel.gif" alt="|" style="width:1px; height:100%; background:#000; margin: 0 2px;" />
This has the added advantage of being compatible with text-only browsers (like lynx) as the pipe character is displayed instead of the image. (It still annoys me that M$IE incorrectly uses alt text as a tooltip; that's what the title attribute is for!)
<style type="text/css">
.vr
{
display:inline;
height:100%;
width:1px;
border:1px inset;
margin:5px
}
</style>
<div style="font-size:50px">Vertical Rule: →<div class="vr"></div>←</div>
Try it out.
How about:
writing-mode:tb-rl
Where top->bottom, right->left?
We will need vertical rule for this.
I know I am adding my answer very late, but it would be worth I am sure. You can achieve vertical line using flex and hr
See my codepen here.
There isn't, where would it go?
Use CSS to put a border-right on an element if you want something like that.
Ancient question but I solved this with display:flex; and it works great:
<div style="display:flex;border:1px dotted black;margin-bottom:20px;">
<div>
This is a div
</div>
<div style="border-left:1px solid black;margin:0 7.5px;"></div>
<div>
This is another div
</div>
</div>
https://jsfiddle.net/6qfd59vm/3/
This solution also doesn't require fixed height.
Try this.
You can set height and width on "div", like the scope for "hr".
The margin of "hr" is used to alignment.
<div style="display: inline-flex; width: 25px; height: 100px;">
<hr style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 12.5px;">
</div>
HTML has little to no vertical positioning due to typographic nature of content layout. Vertical Rule just doesn't fit its semantics.
Try it and you will know yourself:
<body>
rokon<br />
rkn <hr style="width: 1px; height: 10px; display: inline; margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 2px;" />rockon<br />
rocks
</body>
</html>
you can do in 2 way :
create style as you already gave in div but change border-left to border-right
take a image and make its width 1-2 px
You can very easily do this by
hr{
transform: rotate(90deg);
}
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<hr>
</body>
</html>
Be careful about the height and width of hr
In the context of a list item being used as navigation a <vr /> tag would be perfectly useful. The reason it does not exist is because "It does not make logical sense to have one" in the context of HTML a decade ago.
For use in HTML email for most desktop clients you have to use tables. In this case, you can use <hr> tag, with necessary (but simple) inline styling, like:
<hr width="1" size="50">
Of course that styling with CSS is more flexible, but GMail and similar don't allow using of any CSS styling other than inline...
You can use css for simulate a vertical line, and use the class on the div
.vhLine {
border-left: thick solid #000000;
}
You could create a custom tag as such:
<html>
<head>
<style>
vr {
display: inline-block;
// This is where you'd set the ruler color
background-color: black;
// This is where you'd set the ruler width
width: 2px;
//this is where you'd set the spacing between the ruler and surrounding text
margin: 0px 5px 0px 5px;
height: 100%;
vertical-align: top;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
this is text <vr></vr> more text
</body>
</html>
(If anyone knows a way that I could turn this into an "open-ended" tag, like <hr> let me know and I will edit it in)
There is no tag in HTML, but you can use |.
You could use the new HTML5 SVG tag:
<svg style="position:absolute;width:100%;height:100%;">
<line id="myVerticalLine" y1="0" y2="100" x1="0" x2="0">
</line>
</svg>
I find it easy to make an image of a line, and then insert it into the code as a "rule", setting the width and/or height as needed. These have all been horizontal-rule images, but there's nothing stopping me (or you) from using a "vertical-rule" image.
This is cool for many reasons; you can use different lines, colors, or patterns easily as "rules", and since they would have no text, even if you had done it the "normal" way using hr in HTML, it shouldn't impact SEO or other stuff like that. And the image file would/should be very tiny (1 or 2KB at most).
Too many overly-complicated answers. Just make a TableData tag that spans how many rows you want it to using rowspan. Then use the right-border for the actual bar.
Example:
<td rowspan="5" style="border-right-color: #000000; border-right-width: thin; border-right-style: solid"> </td>
<td rowspan="5"> </td>
Ensure that the " " in the second line runs the same amount of lines as the first. so that there's proper spacing between both.
This technique has served me rather well with my time in HTML5.
Today is possible with CSS3
hr {
background-color:black;
color:black;
-webkit-transform:rotate(90deg);
position:absolute;
width:100px;
height:2px;
left:100px;
}
For people who're trying to make columns for text, there's a column-rule property which you should consider using!
.content{
margin: 20px 5%;
padding: 5px;
}
.content p{
-webkit-column-count: 3;
-moz-column-count:3;
-o-column-count:3;
column-count: 3;
-webkit-column-rule: 1px solid #ccc;
-moz-column-rule: 1px solid #ccc;
-o-column-rule: 1px solid #ccc;
column-rule: 1px solid #ccc;
text-align: justify;
}
<div class="content">
<p>
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</p>
</div>
<div style="width:1px;background-color:red;height:30px;float:right;"></div>
Easily can be done using a div like this
HTML5 custom elements (or pure CSS)
1. javascript
Register your element.
var vr = document.registerElement('v-r'); // vertical rule please, yes!
*The - is mandatory in all custom elements.
2. css
v-r {
height: 100%;
width: 1px;
border-left: 1px solid gray;
/*display: inline-block;*/
/*margin: 0 auto;*/
}
*You might need to fiddle a bit with display:inline-block|inline because inline won't expand to containing element's height. Use the margin to center the line within a container.
3. instantiate
js: document.body.appendChild(new vr());
or
HTML: <v-r></v-r>
*Unfortunately you can't create custom self-closing tags.
usage
<h1>THIS<v-r></v-r>WORKS</h1>
example: http://html5.qry.me/vertical-rule
Don't want to mess with javascript?
Simply apply this CSS class to your designated element.
css
.vr {
height: 100%;
width: 1px;
border-left: 1px solid gray;
/*display: inline-block;*/
/*margin: 0 auto;*/
}
*See notes above.
link to original answer on SO.
No there is not. And I will tell you a little story on why it is not. But first,
quick solutions:
a) Use CSS class for basic elements span/div, e.g.: <span class="vr"></span>:
.vr{
display: inline-block;
vertical-align: middle;
/* note that height must be precise, 100% does not work in some major browsers */
height: 100px;
width: 1px;
background-color: #000;
}
Demonstration of use => https://jsfiddle.net/fe3tasa0/
b) Make a use of a one-side-only border and possibly CSS :first-child selector if you want to apply a general dividers among sibling/neigbour elements.
The story about <vr> FITTING in the original paradigm,but still not being there:
Many answers here suggest, that vertical divider does not fit the original HTML paradigm/approach ... that is completely wrong. Also the answers contradict themselves a lot.
Those same people are probably calling their clear CSS class "clearfix" - there is nothing to fix about floating, you are just clearing it ... There was even an element in HTML3: <clear>. Sadly, this and clearance of floating is one of the few common misconceptions.
Anyway. "Back then" in the "original HTML ages", there was no thought about something like inline-block, there were just blocks, inlines and tables.
The last one is actually the reason why <vr> does not exist.
Back then it was assumed that:
If you want to verticaly divide something and/or make more blocks from left to right =>
=> you are making/want to make columns =>
=> that implies you are creating a table =>
=> tables have natural borders between their cells => no reason to make a <vr>
This approach is actually still valid, but as time showed, the syntax made for tables is not suitable for every case as well as it's default styles.
Another, probably later, assumption was that if you are not creating table, you are probably floating block elements. That meaning they are sticking together, and again, you can set a border, and those days probably even use the :first-child selector I suggested above...
There is not.
Why? Probably because a table with two columns will do.