I've recently encountered some problems with CSS Sprites.
I want them to switch pictures every function call, function itself is OK since it only removes and adds css class.
I have following CSS:
#slider_arrow {
padding-left: 200px;
position: relative;
top: -1px;
}
.red_arrow_sprite {
background: url(/Images/onex/arrows.png) 0 0 no-repeat;
width: 25px;
height: 12px;
}
.yellow_arrow_sprite {
width: 25px;
height: 12px;
background: url(/Images/onex/arrows.png) -26px 0 no-repeat;
}
.black_arrow_sprite {
width: 25px;
height: 12px;
background: url(/Images/onex/arrows.png) -51px 0 no-repeat;
}
Slider_arrow is:
<span id="slider_arrow" class="red_arrow_sprite"></span>
the element in which I change class.
And the problem is that my Sprite file has 75px width and 25px height.
(3x 25px/25px)
With the CSS I Presented I get the result where I see all 3 pictures at the time with red_arrow_sprite class, 2 pictures with yellow_arrow_class and 1 picture which is desired with black_arrow_class.
What have I done wrong with CSS?
Thanks in advance.
http://jsfiddle.net/9b57pb50/
Check out this solution
I've removed padding and add some display properties.
I'm trying to make a button using three background images so that we can pull in translations for the the text of the button and expand nicely. We'll probably add a base style for IE8 but our designer wants us to use this style and we couldn't recreate it nicely with pure CSS3.
Here are the images:
Here's the HTML (just a simple button, but thought I should put it anyway:
<button class="back clickable" aria-label="Back" onclick="javascript:history.back();">Back</button>
I've already tried a couple of things; I'll paste the CSS of both attempts.
Attempt 1: Using Pseudo-selectors
http://jsfiddle.net/c2B6X/
.back {
background: url("images/back-middle.png") 14px 0 repeat-x;
color: $white;
height: 28px;
padding: 5px;
&:before {
background: url("images/back-front.png") 0 0 no-repeat;
width: 14px;
}
&:after {
background: url("images/back-end.png") 100% 0 no-repeat;
width: 8px;
}
}
Attempt 2: Three background-images
http://jsfiddle.net/nPUQN/
.back {
background: none;
background-image: url("images/back-middle.png"), url("images/back-end.png"), url("images/back-front.png");
background-position: 14px 0, 100% 0, 0 0;
background-repeat: repeat-x, no-repeat, no-repeat;
border-right: 8px transparent;
border-left: 14px transparent;
color: $white;
height: 28px;
padding: 5px;
}
If it looks like atypical CSS that's because we're using SASS.
Is there something obvious I'm missing or doing wrong? Any advice on how to make this work would be greatly appreciated.
EDIT
Since I got so many answers that "work", I'll mark correct the answer that works best in Chrome, FF and IE9.
EDIT 2
I've tried all answers and none work in IE9. We have to support IE9 (and IE8, but I won't even go there for now). I'm going to start a bounty. Anyone who can supply an answer that works for IE9, Firefox and Chrome gets it.
Pseudo-content requires content, so you'll first need to specify that:
.selector::before {
content: ' ';
}
Then to define any layout such as width and height you'll need to display the pseudo elements as a block or inline-block. Block layout will force each pseudo element to wrap and inline-block will sit on the line so you'll either have to use floats or absolute positioning.
.selector {
position: relative;
height: 28px;
/* allow for the pseudo-elements which do not have layout due to absolute positioning */
margin: 0 15px;
}
.selector::before,
.selector::after {
content: ' ';
position: absolute;
top: 0;
width: 15px;
height: 28px;
}
.selector::before {
left: -15px;
}
.selector::after {
right: -15px;
}
Demo here for you: http://codepen.io/anon/pen/yaJGI
You'll need to add content for :before and :after to show. After that, you can position them absolutely and by giving them right: 100% and left: 100% respectively, you can position them in front of and behind the button.
button {
background:transparent;
border: none;
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
line-height: 1;
font-size: 12px;
cursor: pointer;
margin-left: 14px; /* width of :before */
}
.back {
background: url("http://i.stack.imgur.com/DaQcG.png") 14px 0 repeat-x;
color: white;
height: 28px;
padding: 5px;
position: relative;
}
.back:before {
position: absolute;
content: "";
height: 28px;
top: 0;
right: 100%;
background: url("http://i.stack.imgur.com/6m2HC.png") 0 0 no-repeat;
width: 14px;
}
.back:after {
position: absolute;
content: "";
height: 28px;
top: 0;
left: 100%;
background: url("http://i.stack.imgur.com/2WA5B.png") 100% 0 no-repeat;
width: 8px;
}
The definitions of before and after are slightly the same, so you could write it down more compactly, but you need to re-sass it anyway. ;)
http://jsfiddle.net/c2B6X/
Tip: Note that downloading three images is less efficient. You can create one image that contains the start and end at the top, and the middle part at the bottom. By positioning the background, you can show the right part inside the elements. This technique is called sprites and it decreases the number of requests to make.
I came up with a little something that you can take a look at. You can modify it to best fit your needs.
http://jsfiddle.net/Xy7Hv/1/
HTML:
<button class="back">Back</button>
CSS:
.back {
border: none;
height: 28px;
padding-right: 8px;
padding-left: 14px;
background-image: url("http://i.stack.imgur.com/DaQcG.png"),
url("http://i.stack.imgur.com/6m2HC.png"),
url("http://i.stack.imgur.com/2WA5B.png");
background-position: 14px 0px, left, right;
background-size: 30px 100%, 14px 28px, 8px 28px;
background-repeat: no-repeat,no-repeat,no-repeat;
}
("background-size: 30px" is the width of the button, so if all your buttons are the same size it shouldn't be a problem)
with your multiple background version, you could add gradient or white image to build your button bg , keeping some space with padding.
http://jsfiddle.net/nPUQN/1/
.back {
background:
url("http://i.stack.imgur.com/2WA5B.png") 100% 0 no-repeat ,
url("http://i.stack.imgur.com/6m2HC.png") 0 0 no-repeat,
-webkit-linear-gradient(0deg, white 0, white 14px , transparent 14px ,transparent) 0 0 no-repeat ,
-webkit-linear-gradient(180deg, white 0, white 8px , transparent 8px ,transparent) 0 0 no-repeat ,
url("http://i.stack.imgur.com/DaQcG.png") 14px 0 repeat
;
color: $white;
height: 28px;
padding: 5px 8px 5px 14px;
}
prefixed for chrome, add other prefix needed or use a prefix js :)
I add this answer because i like to keep the other as it is.
This one is to be tested in IE8/9 with pseudo and position:
http://codepen.io/gcyrillus/full/lBpaI or to edit :
http://codepen.io/gcyrillus/pen/lBpaI
.back {
background:
url("http://i.stack.imgur.com/DaQcG.png") 14px 0 repeat
;
color: white;
height: 28px;
padding: 5px;
position:relative;
overflow:visible;
}
.back:before {
content:url(http://i.stack.imgur.com/6m2HC.png);
top:0;
left:-14px;
position:absolute;
}
.back:after {
content:url(http://i.stack.imgur.com/2WA5B.png);
position:absolute;
right:-8px;
top:0;
}
I used this code today. It's similar to your 2nd example, but uses the background shortcut property and a mixture of position strings.
background: url("../images/img01.png") 0px 0px no-repeat, url("../images/img02.png") 53px 0px repeat-x, url("../images/img03.png") right top no-repeat;
img01 = left image (53px wide)
img02 = fill image
img03 = right image
So I've got a series of clickable images in my page. I've tried to optimise this by generating a single image containing all the images I need and I intend to use sprites to select the one I want. I'm having trouble figuring out the best way to add anchor tags to the sprites though?
So I'm after a clickable HTML element that supports sprites, preferably without using JavaScript. I can do it using JavaScript but I'd prefer to avoid it.
OK, here's my code, what there is:
.touringEscorted {
height:125px;
width: 214px;
background-image: url('/Images/Travel2New/ToursImages/ToursBanners.jpg');
background-position: 0 0;
}
.touringNew {
height:125px;
width: 214px;
background-image: url('/Images/Travel2New/ToursImages/ToursBanners.jpg');
background-position: -10px 0;
}
I've tried
<div class="touringEscorted">
and
and several others. Seems there's no way to use sprites/background images and anchor tags at the same time. Am I right?
Any suggestions?
Ok then :
Should work, but adding display:block; to the CSS :
.touringEscorted {
height:125px;
width: 214px;
background-image: url('/Images/Travel2New/ToursImages/ToursBanners.jpg');
background-position: 0 0;
display:block;
}
Like this?
<a class="sprite sprite1" href="javascript:;">Link Text</a>
sprite {
display: block;
background: url(path/to/image/file.ext);
text-indent: -9999px;
}
sprite1 {
width: WWpx;
height: HHpx;
background-position: -NNpx - MMpx;
}
Doesn't Google consider off screen text as spammy? I came up with a modification. I put the link in another element, in this case a table. I added the background image class in the element and in the link like this:
CSS code:
.sprite{
background: url('images/sprite.png') no-repeat top left;
}
.sprite.termite {
background-position: 0px -499px;
width: 150px; height: 113px;
display: block;
}
HTML code:
<td class="td sprite termite">
</td>
It renders the image in the table perfectly and clicks!
I'm trying to lay out a page with an image sprite which holds "awards" (gold, silver, bronze). It's actually WORKING, save for the print preview in Chrome. In Firefox/IE it looks just fine but what Chrome is doing, is that the background image starts off correctly (i.e., the background-position works) but the rest of the image stretches to the start of the next element. See this url for screenshots.
Here is a snippet of the HTML and related CSS:
<span class="price">$22.15
<br />
<span class="awards-section">
<span class="award gold">S.O.E.I.W.F</span>
<span class="award silver">F.L.I.W.C</span>
<span class="award silver">A.C.W.C</span>
<span class="award bronze">F.L.I.W.C</span>
<br />
</span>
</span>
.awards-section {
margin-top: -0.3em;
display: block;
font-size: 4mm;
font-weight: normal;
}
.award {
background-image: url('/images/general/awards.png');
width: 60px;
height: 25px;
display: inline-block;
padding-left: 62px;
margin: 1px;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
line-height: 25px;
float: left;
clear: both;
}
.gold { background-position: 0 0; }
.silver { background-position: 0 -25px; }
.bronze { background-position: 0 -50px; }
.double-gold { background-position: 0 -75px; }
.double-silver { background-position: 0 -100px; }
.double-bronze { background-position: 0 -125px; }
The upstream bug is resolved in chrome 26.
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=131054
I've ran into this problem as well. Only workaround I've found is to switch to use an img tag cropper method as opposed to the background-image method.
Method is shown here http://www.artzstudio.com/2010/04/img-sprites-high-contrast/
I have no idea what chrome is doing, but I think it's grabbing the background-image dimensions and displaying them at that size, but cropping the image using the div dimensions. Which is really odd if I'm right.
I use the CSS Sprite Technique with a background image that looks something like this:
The CSS code for the icons:
div.icon {
background-color: transparent;
background-image: url("/images/icons.png");
background-position: 0 0;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
display: inline-block;
height: auto;
vertical-align: text-top;
width: auto;
}
div.icon:empty {
width:16px;
height:16px;
}
div.icon:not(:empty) {
padding-left:20px;
}
div.icon.attenuation {
background-position: 0 0;
}
My icons can be used like this:
<div class="icon warning"></div>
I want to put some text inside my icons like:
<div class="icon warning">There is a warning on this page</div>
But the problem is that the background image covers the entire text area:
The question is: how can I use only part of an image as a background image for part of my element?
Notes:
setting width to 16px for div.icon doesn't help.
Remember, where ever possible, you shouldn't change your markup just to achieve a design. It is possible using your markup.
div.icon:before {
content: "";
background-color: transparent;
background-image: url("/images/icons.png");
display: inline-block;
height: 16px;
vertical-align: text-top;
width: 16px;
}
div.icon:not(:empty):before {
margin-right: 4px;
}
div.icon.attenuation {
background-position: 0 0;
}
You have two ways:
1)Your markup must be like this:
<div class="icon warning"></div><div class="txt">There is a warning on this page</div>
.icon {width:10px(for ex.)}
2)You must change the image. Icons in the image must be below the another
Sorry, my previous answer was not well though out.
Edit:
If you have a 16px padding, you should set the width to 0, not 16px. And I've got troubles getting the :not(:empty) bit to work on all browsers; better get rid of it. So the CSS becomes:
.icon {
...
width:0; height:16px; padding-left:16px;
}
.icon:empty {
width:16px; padding-left:0;
}
jsFiddle
set width: 16px; height: 16px; overflow: hidden; text-indent: -9999em; and remove padding