I'm brushing up my HTML/CSS skills for a new job. The last time I wrote some HTML was in 1999... So, no need to say that I fell behind.
So, as a fan of "Space Trader" game on Palm OS, I have decided to rewrite in HTML all the screens of the game. And I'm struggling with a CSS issue.
Here is the screen I'm trying to rewrite :
And here is my markup :
<div class="screenTitle">
<h1 class="leftTitle">Bank</h1>
<span class="titleButtons">
<input type="button" id="btB" value="B" />
<input type="button" id="btS" value="S" />
<input type="button" id="btY" value="Y" />
<input type="button" id="btW" value="W" />
</span>
</div>
And the CSS :
.screenTitle {
height: 0.7em;
border-bottom-style: solid;
border-color: rgb(49,0,156);
font-size: 40px;
}
.leftTitle {
margin-top: 0;
font-size: 0.5em;
text-align: center;
color: white;
padding-left: 0.1em;
padding-right: 0.1em;
background-color: rgb(49,0,156);
float: left;
border-top-left-radius: 0.3em;
border-top-right-radius: 0.3em;
line-height: 1.5em;
font-weight: bold;
}
.titleButtons {
float: right;
}
And here is the result
So, you can see that I'm struggling with the positionning of the 4 shortcuts buttons.
Do you have any clue for me to sort this out ? And do you have any critic to formulate ?
Thanks a lot
You need to change the vertical alignment of your buttons. Have this in your CSS:
.titleButtons input{
vertical-align:top;
}
Demo
.titleButtons input {
float: right;
vertical-align:top;
margin:7px 0px 0px 0px;
}
If you add some top margin and remove som left/right margins, the buttons will also position themselves nicer on the bar.
Related
Not able to move the button to the right of the page and the text to the center of the page even though I have added the necessary CSS ( float right etc.,)
<div id="project-heading" style = "margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;margin-bottom: 0px ; padding-top: 5px" text-align="center">
<span display="inline;" float = "center;" style="color: white;">Visual Analysis of US Accidents Data </span>
<button position = "absolute;" background-color ="black;" color = "white;" float ="right;" display="inline-block;" padding-left = "100%;" id="reset" onclick="reset">Reset
</button>
</div>
display, float, etc.
are all CSS variables that should be included in the style="" part of the HTML, not as keyword parameters. I have demonstrated the correct way to insert them in the snippet below. You can also use right: 0 to align an element to the right side of its parent. It is often more reliable than float. I used right: 10px in this example so the button had a bit of breathing room on its right side.
<h1>Only fixed syntax:</h1>
<div id="project-heading" style = "background: blue;margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;margin-bottom: 0px ; padding-top: 5px; text-align: center;">
<span style = "display: inline; float : center; color: white;">
Visual Analysis of US Accidents Data
</span>
<button style="position: absolute; color: white; background-color: black; float: right; display: inline-block; padding-left: 100%" id="reset" onclick="reset">
Reset
</button>
</div>
<h1>Fully fixed version</h1>
<div id="project-heading" style = "background: blue;margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;margin-bottom: 0px ; padding-top: 5px">
<span style = "display: inline; float : center; color: white;">
Visual Analysis of US Accidents Data
</span>
<button style="position: absolute; background-color: black; color: white; float: right; display: inline-block; right: 10px" id="reset" onclick="reset">
Reset
</button>
</div>
You have quite a few issues with your code, so let's clean them up and break down what's happening:
First off, don't style inline unless you have some specific reason for doing so. Use classes or ids or even just generic selectors but separating your HTML and your CSS will make your life much easier(and ours when you come looking for assistance! ;) )
You have tags that are opened and never closed which is causing some problems. The float isn't doing anything for you. If you want to position your button to the right of the page using absolute you need to tell it to be on the right using the right attribute. Your headline is centered, you just can't see it because it's white on a white background.
If you are going to style inline, you need to include your style information in the style="" section, otherwise, you're risking issues or invalid code altogether.
Let me know if you need any additional help or explanations :)
* {
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
box-sizing: border-box;
}
body {
background-color: lightgrey;
}
#project-heading {
margin-top: 0px;
padding-bottom: 0px;
margin-bottom: 0px;
padding-top: 5px;
text-align: center;
}
.title {
display: inline;
float: center;
color: white;
}
.btn {
position: absolute;
right: 10px;
background-color: black;
color: white;
display: inline-block;
}
<div id="project-heading">
<span class="title">Visual Analysis of US Accidents Data </span>
<button class="btn" id="reset" onclick="reset">Reset</button>
</div>
I am trying to create Google's Advanced Search page copy. I am new to programming and I'm having 2 problems. First is that link titled "google search" should be inside the gray bar positioned at the start of the page. Second, I am trying to write css code to reverse positions of texts and their correlated input fields, because I noticed in Google's html that it is also coded in reverse and then corrected from initial position.
Help would be greatly appreciated!
.label {
color: rgb(218, 32, 32);
margin-left: 15px;
padding: 15px;
margin-bottom: 15px;
} */
html, body {
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
font-size: 16px;
}
.navbar {
padding: 20px;
text-align: right;
size: default;
}
.navbar a {
margin: 0 10px;
color:black;
text-decoration: none;
}
.navbar a:hover{
text-decoration: underline;
}
.content {
margin-top:100px;
text-align:center;
}
#textbox {
font-size: large;
height: 30px;
width: 500px;
border-radius: 25px;
}
.graybar{
background-size: 75% 50%;
background: #f1f1f1;
font: 13px/27px Arial,sans-serif;
height: 60px;
width: 100%;
}
#image {
height: 33px;
width: 92px;
margin: 15px;
}
.margin {
margin-left: 10px;
margin-right: 10px;
margin-bottom: 10px;
}
body {
font-family: arial,sans-serif;
}
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>Advanced Search</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="styles.css" />
</head>
<body>
<div class="graybar">
<img src="https://www.google.com/images/branding/googlelogo/1x/googlelogo_color_272x92dp.png" id=image>
<div class=navbar>
<a href="index.html">
Google Search
</a>
</div>
</div>
<div class="label">Advanced Search</div>
<h3 style="font-weight:normal">Find pages with...</h3>
<form action="https://google.com/search">
<input class="margin" value autofocus="autofocus" id="xX4UFf" name="as_q" type="text">
<label for="xX4UFf" class="float">all these words:</label>
<br>
<input class="margin" value autofocus="autofocus" id="CwYCWc" name="as_epq" type="text">
<label for="CwYCWc" class="float">this exact word or phrase:</label>
<br>
<input class="margin" value autofocus="autofocus" id="mSoczb" name="as_oq" type="text">
<label for="mSoczb" class=float>any of these words:</label>
<br>
<input class="margin" value autofocus="autofocus" id="t2dX1c" name="as_eq" type="text">
<label for="t2dX1c" class="float">none of these words:</label>
<br>
<input type="submit">
</form>
</body>
</htmL>
Here is how website looks
Assuming that you can change your HTML, flexbox is the solution to both of your issues.
Let's start with your header. You need your image and your text to be both in the grey box, with the image on the left side and the text on the right side.
If you set your header to use display: flex, then you can specify justify-content: space-between to tell the browser to render the child elements with as much space as is possible between them. For two children, that will result in the first child being on the left, and the second child being on the right. If there were more children, they'd be spaced evenly between (eg left, middle, right for three children etc.)
In your case, this would simply require adding the appropriate styling to the .graybar class which is serving as your header:
.graybar {
display: flex;
flex-direction: row;
justify-content: space-between;
}
.graybar {
display: flex;
flex-direction: row;
justify-content: space-between;
background-size: 75% 50%;
background: #f1f1f1;
font: 13px/27px Arial, sans-serif;
height: 60px;
width: 100%;
}
.navbar {
padding: 20px;
text-align: right;
size: default;
}
.navbar a {
margin: 0 10px;
color: black;
text-decoration: none;
}
.navbar a:hover {
text-decoration: underline;
}
#image {
height: 33px;
width: 92px;
margin: 15px;
}
body {
font-family: arial, sans-serif;
}
<div class="graybar">
<img src="https://www.google.com/images/branding/googlelogo/1x/googlelogo_color_272x92dp.png" id=image>
<div class=navbar>
Google Search
</div>
</div>
I've left the other styling as you had in your original.
CSS's flexbox is extremely powerful; you can use it for your other issue with the labels/inputs as well, if you can modify your HTML. Looking at the actual Google advanced search page here, your HTML doesn't actually look anything like the original, so I'm assuming you're not restricted to keeping the same HTML as you have in your original post.
Let's instead structure our HTML like this:
<div class="row">
<input type="text" id="allwords" >
<label for="allwords">All these words</label>
</div>
We can now apply display: flex to each row and leverage the flex-direction property to reverse the order of the children so that the label is displayed prior to the input.
.row {
display: flex;
flex-direction: row-reverse;
justify-content: flex-end;
}
label {
display: block;
margin-right: 8px;
}
<div class="row">
<input type="text" id="allwords">
<label for="allwords">All these words:</label>
</div>
Generally I wouldn't recommend doing it like this, but I'm equally unsure why you're trying to force inputs before labels in your HTML. :)
For more information about CSS's flexbox, I highly recommend this guide from CSS-Tricks.
I would like the font size for my form label and input fields to scale down from 18px to 10px when the browser width reaches 1460px or less.
I read that it is not possible to get fonts to automatically 'scale down' as such when the browser width decreases, and that I would need to use media queries instead.
Therefore I have put a media query at the top of my style tags asking the font size for my label and input to display at 10px when the screen size is 1460px, but it doesn't seem to work. The rest of my code is working fine however, so it must be something to do with the way I am coding my media query.
If someone could offer some help that would be much appreciated.. my code is pasted below.
#media only screen and (max-width: 1460px) {
label input {
font-size: 10px;
}
}
* {
box-sizing: border-box;
}
input[type=text],
select {
width: 95%;
padding: 12px;
border: 1px solid #ccc;
border-radius: 3px;
resize: vertical;
transition: 0.3s;
outline: none;
font-family: Typ1451-Medium;
font-size: 18px;
margin: 7px;
}
input[type=text]:focus {
border: 1.25px solid #ea0088;
}
label {
padding: 21px 12px 12px 12px;
margin-left: 5px;
display: inline-block;
font-family: Typ1451-Medium;
font-size: 18px;
color: #999;
}
.container {
border-radius: 5px;
background-color: #f2f2f2;
padding: 20px;
margin: 2.5% 20% 0 20%;
}
.col-25 {
float: left;
width: 25%;
margin-top: 6px;
}
.col-75 {
float: left;
width: 75%;
margin-top: 6px;
}
.left,
.right {
width: 50%;
}
form {
display: flex;
}
<div class="container">
<form action="signin.php" method="post">
<div class="left">
<div class="row">
<div class="col-25">
<label for="fname">First Name</label>
</div>
<div class="col-75">
<input type="text" id="fname" name="firstname" placeholder="* Please complete">
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="right">
<div class="row">
<div class="col-25">
<label for="lname">Last Name</label>
</div>
<div class="col-75">
<input type="text" id="lname" name="lastname" placeholder="* Please complete">
</div>
</div>
</div>
</form>
</div>
Your selector — label input — doesn't match any elements in your HTML.
None of your input elements are descendants of your label elements.
Perhaps you meant label, input to select label elements and input elements. If so, then it still wouldn't work because you define the input font-size with a more specific selector later on (and the most specific selector wins the cascade) and the label in a similar way (it doesn't have a more specific selector, but when selectors are equal, the last one wins the cascade).
Actually, you CAN scale fonts up or down with the viewport size. There is a method with calc() and vw units:
Basically you do something like font-size: 3vw and then set max and min font sizes.
Here is a link to the calculation on Smashing Magazine. The rest of the article is pretty interesting, too.
You can extend this even further and optimize the font size with media queries.
Have fun! :)
I have this simple layout:
<form>
<div>
<input class="buttonStyle" type="submit" name="action" value="Press this button to do Action A">
</div>
<div>
<input class="buttonStyle" type="submit" name="action" value="Press this">
</div>
<div>
<input class="buttonStyle" type="submit" name="action" value="Press!">
</div>
</form>
I use this simple style so that the buttons are big and are have some space between them:
.buttonStyle {
margin-bottom: 10px;
border: none;
cursor: pointer;
font-size: 20px;
border-radius: 5px;
}
The problem I have is that the buttons do not have the same size (since it seems that the size of the button is the same as the size of the text) and form a scale (i.e. big, short, shorter).
How can I make the buttons have the same size irrespective of the containing text?
Just add a width property to the button CSS.
For example:
.buttonStyle {
//...
width: 100px;
}
set a width attribute in your CSS
like so:
.buttonStyle {
margin-bottom: 10px;
border: none;
cursor: pointer;
font-size: 20px;
border-radius: 5px;
width: 200px;
}
You have several options here. Setting a constant width may be one of them. You could also try display: block, which will make the buttons fill the entire width of their parent node.
Define some standard "width" for your buttons like,:
.buttonStyle {
margin-bottom: 10px;
border: none;
cursor: pointer;
font-size: 20px;
border-radius: 5px;
width:300px;
}
I have created a fiddle too to refer: http://jsfiddle.net/aasthatuteja/vChFX/
Hope this helps!
I have a search box like below and i am using bootstrap to give a flexible layout. How can use a design like below and make sure i can get a stretchable search box.
You'd need a container to put your input box in, and put a front and end div to it. Depending on browser compatibility you might want to add a few more div's to make sure your input box is shown properly in browsers like IEX7/8 though.
So you'd have the following:
<form class="searchbox">
<input type="text" class="text" />
<input type="submit" class="submit" />
</form>
Accompanied by the following example CSS
form.searchbox { background:url(leftside_image.gif) 0 0 no-repeat; padding-left:15px; }
form.searchbox input.text { border:none; border-top:1px solid #999; border-bottom:1px solid #999; height:25px; line-height:25px; padding:0 5px; }
form.searchbox input.submit { background:url(rightside_image.gif); }
Add your Html part like this
<div class="searchbox">
<input class="lightsearch" type="text" name="s" onfocus="doClear(this)" value="">
</div>
css part, download a search box image and replace it with the name
.searchbox input.lightsearch {
background: url("images/lightsearch.png") no-repeat scroll 0 0 transparent;
border: 0 none;
color: #575757;
font-size: 11px;
height: 19px;
margin-top: 24px;
padding: 2px 5px 2px 24px;
width: 170px;
}