I'm putting a floating picture on my friends blog real quick, but changing the margin values doesn't do anything.
#pic{
z-index:9999999999999999;
position:fixed;
width:200px;
background-color: transparent;}
And the structure:
<div style="margin-bottom:0px;" id="pic" ><img src="{image:Sidepicture}" style="width:200px;"</a></div>
When I change the margin values, the picture stays at the top left hand corner no matter what I do.
The culprit is likely position: fixed;
#pic{
z-index:9999999999999999;
position:fixed;
width:200px;
background-color: transparent;}
Is this all the code there is for pic? It seems that #pic is stuck to top: 0, left: 0
Try just removing the position: fixed line entirely and see what happens
If doesn't work out, also try adding position:relative;
Because you should be putting the margin on the <img />, not on the <div> surrounding the image (#pic).
#pic img { margin: 20px; }
... will do what you want it to.
The very least you should have done is validate that your HTML and CSS are actually valid. There are many errors in the code and style that you supplied. Unclosed Tags, Closed tags, Unmatched elements, styles without contents, invalid styles, Incorrect declarations and so on.
Its also a bit of a jumbled mess, with interwoven styles and script and parts of reset scripts towards the end, all sprinkled through with optional block and cycle contents, making helping you very difficult. Keeping your style separate from your code and grouping it into one block would help you narrow it down a bit as right now styles are all over the file, making it easy for anyone to miss the offending line.
I can only suggest that one of the later styles in your CSS after the style for img you are trying to apply. (somewhere after line 152) is overriding the margin that you are setting at 152. You can use the developer tools built into the browser and look at which styles are being applied to your element and which line in the file they come from. If your pix style is not applied then you will at least have an idea what other styles are and this will allow you to narrow down your investigation.
another way to find the offending line would be to to comment out the styles after line 152 and then comment them back in a few at a time, until you find the class causing the issue.
The quick and dirty fix is of course to put !important after your margin
You can also run your page through the CSS Validation and HTML validation to help you find any of the errors that may also be having an effect.
Related
This is my first time posting here and I'm entirely self-taught, so bear with me please if I misspeak or say some dumb things.
I have a Wordpress blog. For quite some time, I have had my blog post format set up so that a "header image" displays across the width of the content space. Across the bottom of that image, I list the title of the post and the date.
To do this, I created what I believe is called a class -- I named it "container" and the only defining trait of this class is that it has "position: relative;" inside it's brackets. (It also has a "shadow" border. I tried taking this out and it had no effect.) This was done in the "additional CSS" section of the wordpress site.
.container {
position: relative;
box-shadow: 1px -1px 7px rgba(0,0,0,0.8);
}
I also made a class called "text-block" that is defined as follows:
.text-block {
position: absolute;
bottom: 0px;
right: 0px;
left: 0px;
background-color: rgba(128,128,128,0.6);
color: white;
padding-top: 10px;
padding-left: 10px;
padding-right: 10px;
padding-bottom: 0px;
}
Each post begins with opening a container. Then, immediately inside of the container is the image, with the width set to 100%. Then, still in the container, I put the text-block in, which is oriented across the bottom. The background color is opaque so that you still see the image behind the text, slightly greyed out.
Here is the code that begins the post of which I've attached a screenshot:
<div class="container"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-8056 size-full" style="width: 100%;" src="https://*mysite*/wp-content/uploads/thx-1138-film-confession.png" alt="Robert Duvall as THX 1138" width="831" height="364">
<div class="text-block">
<h2 style="color: white;"><em>THX 1138</em></h2>
<h6 style="color: white;">Review by *me* | November 6, 2020</h6>
</div>
</div>
The crucial part that I need to ask some advice on is the bottom edge of the container. Until recently, the bottom edges of the image, the text-block, and the container all coincided. Now, instead, a small amount of excess "padding" was added to the bottom of the container. So now, the text-block overlaps the image and some un-filled space beneath it, as you can see in the image. I can't seem to attach a second image of what it should look like, but I think it is clear what I'm trying to achieve.
I don't know where this excess "padding" came from. I didn't change anything -- no CSS was changed. I was just writing individual posts, copy-pasting the format from an old post to a new one to get the correct formatting. I was previewing a single new post when I realized the change, and I thought that I had messed something up on that individual post. But then I started clicking through my site and realized every single post now showed the error.
In the past, some other weird formatting things have happened that stemmed from a plug-in. I've deactivated all plug-ins and the issue remained. I've taken the text-block out entirely and the excess "padding" remains.
Like I said, I'm self-taught. I've really only learned things as I needed to know them. So it's possible I'm missing something simple or committing some grave error without knowing it. But it seems to me that my container lacks the definition that would cause it to be larger than an exact fit to what I put inside of it. Further, the fact that I did not change any of the underlying definitions seems to indicate it's some other kind of issue. But I don't know where it could be stemming from.
I would appreciate any help to figure this out!
UPDATE:
First, Akhilesh, thank you for the reply. Your suggestions did not directly lead to a solution but they at least got me into the spirit of trial and error.
I have found two "solutions" to this problem.
The first is to set "line-height: 0px;" inside of the container in "Additional CSS." This isn't ideal because it means that I can't type regular text in this container anymore. Not very elegant.
The second kind of seems like a fluke. As I showed above, my posts begin with:
<div class="container">**here**<img class="aligncenter wp-image-8056 size-full" style="width: 100%;" src="https://*mysite*/wp-content/uploads/thx-1138-film-confession.png" alt="Robert Duvall as THX 1138" width="831" height="364">
That is a single, unbroken line of code. By starting a new line where I indicate above, it solves the issue. As I stated in my initial description, I have not changed anything. All my posts have been like this since I decided on the format. And as Akhilesh stated, it works in the fiddler (which was a new tool for me, so thanks again).
So, problem solved, but what changed to cause the issue? Something in the way that Wordpress interprets HTML code?
Try adding this to the img element : display:block;
Also, try to find whether there's any padding/margin set for the h2 and h6 elements.
Because I don't see any issues when I tried. Here's the fiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/vL80u1a2/
If that didn't helped, try using the Developer Tools in your browser. Just right click on the element and choose Inspect Element. Then when you select an element on the left side, all CSS would appear on the right pane. You can try trouble shooting for the padding using that Developer Tools.
Have a look at this for more details on how to use the Developer Tools: https://developers.google.com/web/tools/chrome-devtools/css
Conditions
I'm essentially trying to replicate the webpage output for this assignment. Pictures used in webpage are here. That's basically my ultimate goal in all of this, getting this webpage as close to the Desired Output as possible. Not just similar, but as close to identical as possible.
This needs to be done in a way that doesn't just superficially reflect the intended output, but is done in the "right" way. For example, I could very well just adjust padding and margin sizes until it looks the way it needs to be, but that wouldn't solve the overarching problem and makes for badly styled code.
This has to be predominantly done with CSS. Only organizational HTML tags can be used and no packages or code can be imported.
Problem:
Each review is supposed to be separated by 20pt of vertical distance. This isn't working out for whatever reason.
It might have something to do with the fact that I've got some of my reviews looking like this when I need them to look like this.
That might have to do with the fact that padding is applying only to the text when it needs to apply to the review as a whole.
You can see in the first image that the blue bar, which represents padding, is only under the text and not under the image and the text.
I'm wondering if this has something to do with img elements being inline elements and not block elements? Any advice you have on this would be greatly apprecaited.
Code:
CSS
HTML
The padding does not work with your images because you have
float: left
applied to them. If you take that property out, the padding will take the img into account.
On a side note: maybe you should reconsider your html structure. Logically the review text and the reviewer belong together, so they should be enclosed by some parent div element. Just look at the real rotten tomatoes website and how they structure their reviews and let that "inspire" you ;-)
But basically it should be something like this:
<div class="review">
<div class="review_quote"></div>
<div class="review_source"></div>
</div>
Well structured HTML really helps with styling. HTML and CSS go hand in hand, so if your HTML is messy your CSS will be messy and "hacky" too. So first make sure your HTML makes sense (grouping, nesting, etc.) first.
add this class in your css
.reviewer-text::after {
clear: both;
content: "";
display: block;
}
Well.. your padding in css is refering only to class 'reviewer-info'. Elements with class 'reviewer-text' got their padding set to 8px;
If you want to have result for that block like on the picture apply bottom padding for 'reviewer-text'. Change:
.reviewer-text {
padding: 8px;
}
to:
.reviewer-text {
padding: 8px 8px 20px 8px;
}
See: https://fiddle.jshell.net/a9xxoz8L/1/
I'm sorry I cannot show you the code, it is currently on my localhost.
I am pretty sure I have correctly typed the code because Netbeans doesn't show any errors. I am making my parents website for their charity, Enough to Spare. When I load the webpage though, there is a white line on all sides (although you can't see the top line because that div is white)
Here is a screenshot.
Anyone have any suggestions?
I would recommend you use a reset.css file before your own.css, so you start with a blank slate.
You could always add -
html { width:100%; height:100%; margin:0 padding:0; }
body { width:100%; height:100%; margin:0; padding:0; }
http://www.cssreset.com/ - This is where I look to get my reset.css file
Thank you to Dan Ovidiu Boncut for reminding me to put in margin:0; and padding:0;!
Ninja edit: Have you tried using the Chrome Developer Tools? You can play with the css using that. Right click on an element and click on inspect, there you can add new css styles and edit your current ones. It is a brilliant way to find solutions to your css issues... it also shows you what line in your css file you're at, so when you come to make the changes in file you know where to look straight away! :)
In the CSS, try changing the padding of the container <div> to 0, because anything inside a <div> is also inside whatever padding it has, resulting in space between the padding and the border. Also try changing the margin to 0, because having a margin will result in space between the border and its container.
If you don't have a container <div>, or this didn't fix it, try setting the padding of the <body> tag to 0, because it's the outer-most container and might have default padding.
I also think there might be alternative ways to set background contents to ignore padding. Unfortunately, it's been a little while since I've worked in HTML and CSS, and I don't currently have time to experiment with that. But see what you can do with the above suggestions.
The fact that NetBeans doesn't show errors doesn't mean your presentation is the way you want it to be.
Check your containing divs. Check for any margins and/or paddings that could cause spacing. Borders as well.
If all fails use a CSS reset and check again.
You need to copy and paste the html and css involving your page elements, otherwise no one will be able to help you. Having your code on localhost has nothing to do with that.
The only thing that solved this problem for me was adding
body {overflow-x: hidden;}
to my CSS file. Once this works, I guess you can remove:
html { width:100%; height:100%; margin:0px padding:0; }
body { width:100%; height:100%; margin:0; padding:0; }
And also: quick tip for beginners: always use Command + Shift + R for a hard reload instead of a normal Command + R while testing solutions.
I encountered a strange problem in IE 8/7 and I have gone through hell (and back) to reach a minimal test-case that demonstrates the issue...
Consider the following bit of HTML:
<form id="hover-test">
<fieldset>
<div id="hover">
<p>always visible</p>
<p class="hidden">Visble only on hover</p>
</div>
</fieldset>
<fieldset>
Please jump
</fieldset>
</form>
And this bit of CSS:
form { background-color:#f5f5f5; }
.hidden { display:none; }
#hover:hover .hidden { display:block; }
#link { position:relative; }
What it should do: On hover an additional paragraph becomes visible, pushing the next fieldset and all its contents down. (works fine in FF/Chrome/Safari/Opera)
What it does in IE 7/8: The paragraph becomes visible, pushing down the following fieldset. The link however stays fixed in place for reasons I can't fathom.
In the frustrating chase for a minimal mark-up that reproduces the problem (the effect vanished when I removed single lines of CSS from the original code, but my testcase could have them and still be fine... O_o) I identified at least three players working together here:
the fieldset: If I put everything in divs or in a form without fieldsets, all is well
the position:relative: Uncomment that line and voilá - link jumps.
the background color: This makes no sense whatsoever to me, but without this it works.
So, here's the question (apart from the implied "WTF?"):
Has anybody any clue on what is causing this behavior? And how to solve it? Or at least a hint into which of the many known IE issues I could look into to further test stuff?
Maybe I could come up with a way to bend the structure and...say... have the background-color on some additional wrapper div or something, but this seems... somewhat silly, and anyway, I feel as if not understanding this now will make things possibly very complicated down the road.
It was your comment about the position: relative that helped me solve it. That flagged me to think hasLayout! The issue seems resolved if you make sure both form and fieldset have layout set also (just giving it to the #link created the issue). One (among many) ways:
form, fieldset {zoom: 1}
See the working fiddle.
BTW: You should not have two #hover id's in your code. That should be set to a class (maybe it is just an error in your example, but I wanted to note it).
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How to remove margin space around body or clear default css styles
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In this test page, the element has a strange extra amount of space on the top:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3085200/canvasTest/index.html
I tried putting margin, padding, top all to 0 for body, and padding to 0 for html, but none of it helped.
html
{
padding:0px;
}
body
{
margin:0px;
padding:0px;
top:0px;
}
Try this in css:
h1 {
margin-top: 0;
}
This is a common scenario (logo image wrapped in h1 tag):
I believe this is actually caused by the margin on your h1 element.
You <h1> has default margin-top added to it, so it's pushing the <body> down from the top of the window.
body > h1:first-child { margin-top: 0; }
My console is showing a 0.67em top margin on the <h1> surrounding your top element.
Try this...
h1 {
margin: 0;
}
Well, I'm sure the experts will laugh at this. I started using Expression Web 4 and tried to place the header info for my pages into a file header.txt to include on every page. I changed the file type from html to shtml and used this line:
All okay, except for a pesky extra space at the top of the file.
The solution was this:
Tools>Page Editor Options>Authoring
Uncheck .txt under "Add a Byte Order Mark when creating or renaming UTF-8 documents with these file extensions."
I hope this helps someone else as naive as I.
You can try to put a display flex on your body, it worked in my case
Hope it will help someone :)
I recognize that space at the top. This often happens to me too. In my case there is a hidden break (<br/>) somewhere between the <head> and <body>. When you find this break and remove it, the top space will be fixed!
html > h1:first-child { margin-top: 0; }
I know this post is old, but I wanted to share a different solution that worked for me, for anyone that might come across this same post, looking for help, as I have.
Every solution I found seemed to be the result of an error, but I didn't have any errors, that could see. After over an hour of problem solving and piecing apart one of my past designs, I found this solution:
In the CSS for the DIV that you want attached to the top of the browser, add this one simple line:
#ContentContainer{
border: 1px solid transparent;
};
I'm not quite sure why it works or why it's needed, but it made the gap disappear.