I need to set a margin to the top of an element. The text must be within the element and have a top margin of N pixels.
Here is what I want to achieve:
Fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/GRQNh/
CSS:
body {
height: 960px;
}
.breadcrumbs {
position: relative;
background-color: #eee;
height: 10%;
}
.name {
color: #000;
margin-top: 50px;
}
Thanks.
DEMO or you may be try with padding-top instead margin-top as follows
.name {
display:block;
color: #000;
padding-top: 50px;
}
Since .breadcrumbs has position: relative, set position: absolute; to .name.
JSFiddle
You need to add display: inline-block; to get the margin to work.
For instance,
.name {
color: #000;
margin-top: 50px;
display: inline-block;
}
Hope this helps.
For it to work you will need to make the element behave like a block element. A block element can have, for instance, margins or paddings.
However, you will want to keep it from being displayed like an actual block element, so you will want to keep its visual displacement the same (that is, inline).
Luckily, there is a css value for display which does exactly what you need:
display: inline-block;
Add this to the span (which is inilne by default) and it will behave like a block element while it will still look like an inline element.
You can also give up on margins at all and use padding-top: 50px.
in this case, you must specify the parent ELEMENT position relative and absolute position subsidiary and specify top: 0;
the <span> is an inline element. That means you cant apply margin or padding to it.
For the solution to your problem you have -at least- two options.
1.Change the container of your text to a block element, like <div>
so:
<span class="name">Name</span>
will become
<div class="name">Name</div>
2.Change the behavior of your span by making it a block or inline-block element with this css:
.name {
display:inline-block
/* rest of your css */
These two articles will give you a good idea of what is inline and block
http://www.impressivewebs.com/difference-block-inline-css/
http://css-tricks.com/almanac/properties/d/display/
Related
TLDR: this codepen works fine in Chrome, but the alignment is off in Firefox.
I'm building a jQuery plugin which modifies a text input to give it a dropdown button on the left. In order to get the positioning right, I add a wrapper div, which is the same height as the input, so the button can be absolutely positioned on top of the input, and yet still have the same height:
#wrapper {
position: relative;
}
#overlay {
position: absolute;
top: 0;
bottom: 0;
width: 30px;
}
This works fine until the input has vertical margin: then the container grows to include the margin, and so the dropdown button grows with it. My solution to this was margin collapsing: I gave the input display:block which meant that the container ignored it's margin. All good.
input {
margin: 20px 0 40px; /* testing */
display: block;
}
But now the problem is that by default, inputs are inline elements e.g. you might want to have a submit button next to the input. So I wrapped the whole thing in a container div with display:inline-block, so another inline element like a button can happily sit next to it.
#container {
display: inline-block;
}
This works fine in Chrome, but has weird alignment issues in Firefox when there's any vertical margin on the input. Below I've added the final markup. There's also a codepen link at the top.
<div id="container">
<div id="wrapper">
<input>
<div id="overlay"></div>
</div>
</div>
<button>Submit</button>
Edit: the point is that this is a plugin and I'm trying to work with the user's existing markup and CSS e.g. they have this markup:
<input><button>Submit</button>
and their existing CSS has vertical margin on the input, and I want them to be able to just initialise my plugin on the input and it just work, without forcing them to change their markup/CSS. Now because the plugin needs to add lots of markup around the input (for the overlay and the dropdown list), I wrap it all up in a container div. This container div is the limit of our reach (and does not include the button element, or anything else they choose to put next to their inputs).
To fix this, you'll need to define a line-height in your parent div#test2. Without it, different browsers will give it different values. This will cause Firefox to cause this weird result.
Now, the line-height isn't the only problem, also the vertical-align's baseline value will generate a different result for inline elements than it is for inline-block elements that have a different height than the surrounding inline content. To fix this, change the value to top for the #container element (since that's the inline-block element).
The final result would have the following changed (only pasting the parts that changed):
#test2 {
background-color: green;
line-height:70px;
#container {
// replicate the inline nature of the input
display: inline-block;
vertical-align:top;
}
//the rest of the #test2 nested code
}
That would look like this.
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I've made something that does work by the requirements set. Since you said the extra code (so the divs around the input) are made by the plugin itself, I've taken the liberty of changing that a bit to make this work.
The way it can work quite easily is just not using inline-blocks at all, and sticking with the inline elements. This would change the styles to the following:
#container {
// replicate the inline nature of the input
display: inline;
}
#wrapper {
display: inline;
position: relative;
}
input {
// you'll want to make sure the typed text doesn't appear behind the overlay
padding-left:35px;
}
#overlay {
position: absolute;
top: 0px;
bottom: 0px;
left: 1px;
width: 30px;
background-color: #00C2FF;
}
Notes:
I didn't bother making the overlay cover the full height of the input, since your plugin would just make it a flag anyway. To make it cover the full height, just set negative top and bottom styles on the overlay, equal to the computed padding-top and padding-bottom (resp.) on the input. In this case, you'd have to change them to top:-5px;bottom:-5px;. (you can get the computed style via jQuery's $(input).css('padding-top'))
You could actually also remove the whole #container from it, since the only style it has now is display:inline which really doesn't add anything to the whole thing.
I've added a padding-left to your input, because otherwise you'd have to type behind the overlay, which is just silly.
Is the HTML generated by the plugin and it needs to stay exactly the same? I'm not sure I can figure out exactly why the second example is not working, but you seem to have too many div elements there. You could make since simpler:
HTML
<div id="test1">
<div id="wrapper">
<input>
<div id="overlay"></div>
<button>submit</button>
</div>
</div>
SCSS
input, button {
border: 1px solid black;
padding: 5px;
}
input {
display: inline-block;
padding-left: 35px;
}
#test1 {
background-color: yellow;
padding: 20px 0 40px 0;
#wrapper {
position: relative;
#overlay {
position: absolute;
top: 1px;
left: 1px;
width: 30px;
background-color: #00C2FF;
}
}
}
Codepen example
I've removed the margin, and instead used padding on the parent, it achieves the same thing. You'll also want some padding-left on your input field so the entered text doesn't disappear behind your overlay div.
EDIT: In case you are unable to change the markup:
SCSS:
#test2 {
background-color: green;
#container {
// replicate the inline nature of the input
display: inline-block;
padding: 20px 0 40px 0;
}
#wrapper {
// this is just here to be display:block and ignore the margin on the input
display: block;
position: relative;
}
input {
// tell parent to ignore margin
//display: block;
margin: 0;
}
#overlay {
position: absolute;
top: 1px;
bottom: 1px;
left: 1px;
width: 30px;
background-color: #00C2FF;
}
}
codepen demo
Removed the block and margin declarations from the input field, and moved the spacing to padding of the #container element.
"Disclaimer": Let me just start by saying that I did not find exactly what is causing the problems in Firefox, but I did think of an alternative way you could do it.
The way this works in both Firefox and Chrome is just to use the exact same HTML as you used for your #test1, but on top of that, also using the CSS :before pseudo-element (instead of using the #container and #wrapper). The code I used was:
#test2 {
background-color: green;
position:relative;
&:before {
content:"";
display:block;
position:absolute;
left:1px;
top:1px;
bottom:1px;
margin:20px 0 40px 0;
width:30px;
background:#00C2FF;
}
}
demo
The way this works is to simply position the :before overlay on exactly the same place as the divs previously were. As you can see, I've used most of the same styles as you did, but instead, I've put them on the :before pseudo-class.
Other answers don't know why it doesn't work on Firefox. Well, I think that Firefox has the right behavior and it's a Chrome problem.
In short, you want to align an input with a button. But the input is inside a wrapper. Then, you can use vertical-align to control the vertical aligning between the wrapper and the button, but not between the input and the button.
Here you can see an screenshot with different vertical-align:
See the code.
If you want to align the input and the button (last case in the image), you have a problem, because any of the keywords you can use with vertical-align does that. Only in case that input's top margin and bottom margin are equal, then vertical-align: middle works.
But in general, you have have another solution: vertical-align also accepts a <length> value.
And, to get a perfect alignment, you should use the formula
vertical-align: -(input bottom margin)
Or, if you want to align them even if the button has a bottom margin, then
vertical-align: -(input bottom margin) + (button button margin)
The code formula above works with inline-block <div>, but not with <buttons>.
The formula must be fixed to
vertical-align: -(input bottom margin) -(input offsetHeight)/2 + 6
In your example
(Input bottom margin) = 40px
(Input offsetHeight) = 31px
Then, you need
vertical-align: -(input bottom margin) -(input offsetHeight)/2 + 6
Demo
I could achieve it with the following.Codepen You will have to know the css applied to input and apply it to button as well
button{
position:absolute;
margin-left:5px;
}
input, button {
display: inline-block;
margin: 20px 0 40px 0;
}
please update below in your code.
input, button {
border: 1px solid #000000;
margin: 20px 0 40px;
padding: 5px;
vertical-align: top;
}
hope it will work
http://codepen.io/anon/pen/Isycu
Look I have this code:CSS:
<style>
span#logo {
height: 80px;
width: 222px;
background: url(img/logo.png);
/* If I take out this it would give my span 0x0px size */
float: left;
}
</style>
HTML:
<span id="logo"></span>
Why does it happens? Why do I need to have the float for it to have shape?
You don't need float, you need anything to make your span not inline. You could (and probably should) just change the display to either block or inline-block.
SPAN element itself is dimension-less. It is as big as whatever you put into it. To make it dimensions-aware, you need to change its display property to block or inline-block. Its default display is inline, which gives you the behavior you experience.
span#logo {
height: 80px;
width: 222px;
background: url(img/logo.png);
display: block;
// or: display: inline-block; zoom: 1; *display: inline;
}
Floats are technically block-level elements, but they behave like inline elements in that they often don’t exist on a line of their own — the rest of your content will try to flow around a floated element.
For better understanding Read This
Friends, here is a very simple problem I am facing. I am having a container called 'testDiv', and inside the container one paragraph to test. The problem is when I am targetting to the paragraph ( .testDiv p ) and assigning margin-top: 75px;, it is affecting to the container also. so, here is what i want. I want to move-down only the paragraph not the container. Is there any poosibility without using absolute position to the paragraph.
here is what i tried so far - http://jsbin.com/adudih/1/edit
You have multiple ways to accomplish this:
Work with padding-top and not margin-top:
http://jsbin.com/etazem/2/edit
Use line-height on the paragraph tag and set it to the same height as your container: (With this method you will have problems with text-wrapping if the text overflows the container width):
http://jsbin.com/etazem/1/edit
Padding vs Margin:
http://www.impressivewebs.com/difference-between-margins-padding-css/
Use padding-top instead of margin-top. So it should be
.testDiv p {
display: block;
padding-top: 75px;
color: white;
}
Update:
The reason why it affect the container is because you've assign the styling like this .testDiv p. It will refer to .testDiv first, then only p.Another way you can just style the paragraph by assigning a class name for it and do the margin.
<div class='testDiv'>
<p class="p-style">Some text to play around.</p>
</div>
.p-style{
margin-top: 75px;
}
Check here, DEMO http://jsfiddle.net/yeyene/Ted2F/1/
For p css, use float & margin-top instead of line-height
Play around the p margin-top and see.
.testDiv {
width: 200px;
height: 300px;
background-color: blue;
text-align: center;
position: relative;
}
.testDiv p {
float:left;
background:green;
margin-top: 130px;
color: white;
}
I want to display 2 divs in a single line. I have a parent div and two child divs.I want to keep the width of first child div and parent div equal. So the header(label of first child div) displays always middle position of parent div and I want to display the second child div at the right side in the same line of parent div.(Condition is always label of first child div should display middle of parent div). Here is the jsfiddle.
If I were styling this header section for a website, and I wanted some flexibility in styling the various elements, here is out I would start.
For my HTML:
<div class="head">
<div class="innerfirst">
<h1>ABCDEF GHIJ</h1>
</div>
<div class="innersecond">
<label>RIGHT1</label>
<label>RIGHT2</label>
</div>
</div>
I would put the page title in a <h1> tag so that I can adjust font-size, padding, background color and so on. In fact, you could add a tag line below the title line and various background images. Having .innerfirst and h1 gives you quite a bit of flexibility.
The <label> tags don't make sense semantically in this context, but perhaps you will have have input fields later like a search box.
For the CSS:
.head {
background-color:#2191C0;
width: 100%;
height: 85px;
position: relative;
}
The above is fine, set position: relative so that you can use absolute positioning for one of the child elements. The fixed height is a good idea, makes it easier to adjust elements vertically.
.innerfirst {
}
.innerfirst h1 {
text-align: center;
color: #FCFCFC;
padding-top: 10px; /* You could also use a margin... */
}
By default, .innerfirst will have 100% width since it is an in-flow block element, same with the h1 element. You can center the text within h1, and adjust color, padding and margin as needed.
.innersecond {
border: 2px solid lightgray;
color: white;
position: absolute;
width: 25%; /* Set this or by default it will shrink-to-fit content */
height: 61px; /* Set this or by default it will shrink-to-fit content */
top: 5px;
right: 5px;
padding: 5px;
}
What you could do is create a box of text and absolutely position it to the right. It is a good idea
to set a height and width otherwise, as a result of the absolute positioning, the div will shrink to fit the content, which is sometimes useful. The top and right offsets will position the .innersecond to the top-right of the parent container because you set position: relative in .head.
.innersecond label {
display: block; /* optional if you want block behavior */
border: 1px dotted white;
}
Finally, if you want the label tags to behave like blocks, use display: block and style according to you design requirements.
For reference, demo fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/audetwebdesign/qpb9P/
Here's an updated jsfiddle. Read up on the display property!
HTML:
hello there! <div class='badge'>give this a small margin.</div> Please!
CSS:
.badge {
display: inline-block;
margin-top: -2px;
}
See fiddle here: http://jsfiddle.net/ThySQ/2/
How to give the text in the div a margin? It doesn't seem to work like this.
Adding a negative margin to inline content won't work (at least on most browsers). If you want to move the text upwards you can position the element relatively and set the top to a negative number.
.badge {
display: inline-block;
top: -2px;
position: relative;
}
http://jsfiddle.net/ThySQ/4/
You need to apply padding to the div to have the extra space applied within the div.
.badge {
display: inline-block;
margin-top: -2px;
padding: 4px; /* sets up a 4px margin all around the inside edge of the div */
}
That will affect whatever content is within the div.