Transform creating wavy text in Firefox - html

Folks, I have text on a div that has transform: rotate(3deg). In Firefox, the text is rendered wavy. Removing the transform to the div fixes the waviness. Is there a way for me to have my cake and eat it too?
HTML:
<div class="card turn-right">
<div class="card-text">
<p>Blah. Blah. Blah.</p>
</div>
</div>
CSS:
.card {
display: block;
width: 550px;
height: 375px;
}
.turn-right {
-webkit-transform: rotate(3deg);
-moz-transform: rotate(3deg);
-ms-transform: rotate(3deg);
-o-transform: rotate(3deg);
transform: rotate(3deg);
}
Edit:
Additional information: I have to use a #font-face for this project.
Screenshot:

Try adding perspective
.turn-right {
-webkit-transform: perspective(9999px) rotate(3deg);
transform: perspective(9999px) rotate(3deg);
}
No need for -moz-transform in modern browsers
By the way, the same bug is present in webkit browsers.
Why does this work ?
I don't have a real answer, because I don't have the source for the browser. But my guess is the following. The browsers have a very good rendering engine, that can do lots of things, and does it pretty well. But doing all this is most of the time expensive (read: makes the browser slow). So, most of the time it is trying to guess: is this really necessary ? Do I really need to calculate the xxxx of the yyyy in the zzzz to display this ?
And some of the bugs come from that guess being incorrect, and omiting a necesary calculus.
The solution then, is to put there something that makes the browser rendering engine think "wait, I really need to calculate that, that is not the easy case".
Also in this line are fixes like translate3d(0,0,0) or translateZ(0) or backface-visibility hidden . What is the sense in translating something 0px ? They force the browser to do something the complicated way instead of the easy way, and solve - optimize the result.

Related

How to make a text with skewed line but not letters?

I have a skewed text in HTML/CSS.
Like this: (http://jsfiddle.net/UPeYT/)
p {
-webkit-transform: skew(-8deg);
-moz-transform: skew(-8deg);
-o-transform: skew(-8deg);
transform: skew(-8deg);
}
I would like the alignment of the text to skew but the words themselves to not be italic. How whould I do that?
I've built something that I needed, but I'm not sure if it is exactly what you need. Essentially I'm taking a paragraph, skewing it, then splitting each word into it's own span with the skew reversed. I'm sure this is horrid for performance on a repaint though.
fiddle
CSS:
span {
-webkit-transform: skew(-18deg);
-moz-transform: skew(-18deg);
-o-transform: skew(-18deg);
transform: skew(-18deg);
display: inline-block;
position: relative;
}
p {
-webkit-transform: skew(18deg);
-moz-transform: skew(18deg);
-o-transform: skew(18deg);
transform: skew(18deg);
padding:30px;
}
javascript (uses jquery):
$(document).ready(function(){
var words = $('p').text().split(' ');
$('p').empty();
for (var i=0;i<words.length;i++){
if (words[i]!='') {
$('p').append('<span>'+words[i]+'</span> ');
}
}
});
The HTML is simply a P tag with whatever content.
Something like this?
I append parent to <p> element and apply the opposite!
see: http://jsfiddle.net/joseapl/UPeYT/9/
Just a thought, but I guess it's the only right answer:
This is not possible. Let me show you how I came to that answer. I tried it with font-style: italic, which should not change the text if the skew made it italic for me, but it does not make it italic by default. It's just the transformation of the skew that makes it this way. If you change the degree, you'll see it get's straighter. It rotates the text and than it looks like it's italic, but it is not.
Here is what I mean: http://jsfiddle.net/UPeYT/7/
You can see that it's very different than yours: http://jsfiddle.net/UPeYT/10/
You can wrap the lines in a span or p tag. you want to indent and give them a text-indent to achieve what you want.

blurry text in Chrome and Firefox

When I want to rotate a div I want to rotate the text as well, but I have still issues with anti-aliasing. The text is blurry and I cant fix it. The effect occurs in Firefox and Chrome.
I found this solution, but it didn't work for me.
-webkit-backface-visibility: hidden;
html
<div id="rotate">
<span>Hi, iam rotated blurry text </span>
</div>
css
#rotate{
margin-top:30px;
-moz-transform: rotate(-9deg);
-ms-transform: rotate(-9deg);
-o-transform: rotate(-9deg);
-webkit-transform: rotate(-9deg);
transform: rotate(-9deg);
background:#292929;
font-size:30px;
color:green;
display:inline-block;
}
link: http://jsfiddle.net/P52Yu/6/
plz help :)
Chrome has difficult with numbers with a lot of decimal places at times when there is a transform involved. Try doing a parseInt on those numbers to bring the decimal places down. You'll find the blurryness often goes away with this simple fix.

Making checkbox bigger in size

I'm trying to make the checkbox bigger in size. The regular size is too small
Try CSS 'transform'
input[type=checkbox] {
-ms-transform: scale(2);
-moz-transform: scale(2);
-webkit-transform: scale(2);
-o-transform: scale(2);
transform: scale(2); }
But it will not work on IE8.
http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/css3_pr_transform.asp
You can make use of the images to change the style of checkboxes.
You can also use the following CSS which has been tested in Chrome. But this won't work in Firefox:
input[type='checkbox'] {
width: 4em;
height: 4em;
}
For a demo visit: http://www.456bereastreet.com/lab/styling-form-controls-revisited/checkbox/
This is tough to achieve if you want to maintain cross-browser compatiblity.
You may want to consider an input replacement plugin such as this one.
http://blogs.digitss.com/javascript/jquery-javascript/jquery-fancy-custom-radio-and-checkbox/

Safari and Chrome, position of rotated text goes haywire

well, I normally find the answer to my questions here but this time I didn't so I will now ask my first one here! :)
I have some rotated text on my page and it is positioned using position:absolute, like below:
.rotate-box .rotate-text{
display: block;
-webkit-transform: rotate(90deg);
-moz-transform: rotate(90deg);
-ms-transform: rotate(90deg);
-o-transform: rotate(90deg);
transform: rotate(90deg);
position: absolute;
left: -45px;
top: 170px;
}
<div class="rotate-box">
<span class="rotate-text">Rotated text</span>
</div>
This works fine on all browsers (with webkit) except for Safari and Chrome where the text is displayed about 90px lower than in the other browsers.
To prevent this I have added:
#media screen and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio:0){
.rotate-text {top: 80px !important;}
}
Now the text is in the correct place in all browsers but this doesn't feel right to me... Am I missing something here?
I hate adding browser exception code, it tends to come back and bite you in the long run... :o
Regards,
Anders
Change this line:
-webkit-transform: rotate(90deg);
to
-webkit-transform: rotate(90deg) translate(-100px, 16px);
As you know, this line is only used by the webkit browsers (Safari, Chrome)
You'll probably have to play around with the exact px figures, but then you can get rid of the extra #media screen tag.
Look into transform-origin. Basically, you should be able to do transform-origin: 0 0; (with all the prefixes, of course), and it'll hook the rotate to the top left, which sounds like what you want.

can i tilt an image easily using HTML or CSS?

some designs on the Apple's user's webpage show a photo that is tilted slightly, like at a 5 or 10 degree angle. while this is no big deal, it does make the webpage totally different from "all the rest".
is it true that currently using HTML or CSS, this can't be done yet?
like the big photo in the middle:
alt text http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/383/phototilt.png
(the program lets you choose photos and then create the page (html and jpg) dynamically for you)
CCS 3 will offer this possibility, but it's still not cross-browser and you cannot do it with traditional HTML + CSS... yet.
Websites having a tilted image do it by rotating it in, say, Photoshop and making its background transparent. That's the whole trick there's to it.
Tip: save that picture to your HD and see by yourself. That's probably just an squared image with transparent background, or maybe it has the current background cut nicely to fit there.
You can do it, but only in Firefox 3.5+ and Safari 3.2+ (and recent webkit based browsers). Both provide browser specific CSS extensions for skew: -moz-transform and -webkit-transform respectively.
Here's a nice example that builds a 3d looking cube out of divs: (from http://www.fofronline.com/2009-04/3d-cube-using-css-transformations/)
<div class="cube">
<div class="topFace">
<div>
Content
</div>
</div>
<div class="leftFace">
Content
</div>
<div class="rightFace">
Content
</div>
</div>
And CSS:
.cube {
position: relative;
top: 200px;
}
.rightFace,
.leftFace,
.topFace div {
padding: 10px;
width: 180px;
height: 180px;
}
.rightFace,
.leftFace,
.topFace {
position: absolute;
}
.leftFace {
-webkit-transform: skewY(30deg);
-moz-transform: skewY(30deg);
background-color: #ccc;
}
.rightFace {
-webkit-transform: skewY(-30deg);
-moz-transform: skewY(-30deg);
background-color: #ddd;
left: 200px;
}
Yes, with CSS3 you can:
-webkit-transform: rotate(20deg);
-moz-transform: rotate(20deg);
-ms-transform: rotate(20deg);
-o-transform: rotate(20deg);
transform: rotate(20deg);
Supported by all the modern browsers and IE9+.
See CSS transform on MDN for more information.
To my knowledge you can not do that. Are you sure the image you are thinking of isn't tilted in Photoshop or similar and just added to the page like that?
You can use Apple specific CSS attributes (soon to be ratified, and then they'll remove the webkit prefixes for them) to do this and animation effects, but it will only show up in Safari and Chrome right now. Still, they look quite pretty and CSS is simple to do.
Right now it's probably just done in Photoshop, and nicely anti-aliased there as well, so that it has a consistent cross-browser appearance.
We are doing something similar at work, we have to do it on the fly.
You can't do it with just html/css, however we are using an image library through a php script to generate them automatically, and then make the background transparent.
Use a PHP GD Library. Makes things so much easier.
No. You can't.
Tilting images and text is still JavaScript juju.
Edit: Or, at least, you couldn't with CSS2. Starting with CSS3, there's the transform property, which includes rotations.