CSS Hover jitter issue - html

This is my first question. I usually try to research these things well, but this one is driving me crazy.
I need to be able to do something very similar to what you see here (hover over the box):
http://dev.ranvel.com/test-hover-method.html
The problem is the jitter that I get. It looks very unprofessional.
I want to use CSS and HTML (and not images) because what will eventually happen is there will be words behind the box and by hovering, you will see a translation.
What I've seen already are things like keeping the fonts the same, removing bold text, etc. Here, the whole div is changing and not just the text. I've also seen the "transition trick" where you increase the amount of time between the transitions. The problem is that sometimes when the mouse comes to a rest over the div, it is in its "non-hover" state.
Thanks in advance!!!

Instead of visibility: hidden; try using opacity: 0;
.over:hover {
opacity: 0;
}
http://jsfiddle.net/6WPHk/
You can even setup a transition on the .over div:
.over {
transition: opacity 0.3s;
}

It might be easier to make the .over a child of .under.
It would be a lot easier to position .over.
You can then apply the hover selector to .under, while still applying
the visibility rule to .over.
JSFiddle
HTML
<div class="main">la la
<div class="under">
<img class="over" src="//lorempixel.com/100/100" alt="">
Bibendum Etiam Fermentum Mattis
</div>
</div>
CSS
.under {
position: relative;
}
.under:hover .over {
display: none;
}
.over {
position: absolute;
top: 0;
left:0;
}

Related

CSS :hover works only on the lower half of the button

The page in question:
http://rainbowdoge.000webhostapp.com
The situation:
I have two buttons in the nav menu on the left side.
The upper one contains a hitbox (black for testing purposes), and an image of a rainbow. The image is changing the opacity on hover.
CSS code for that:
.icon {
opacity: 0.6;
backface-visibility: hidden;
transition: opacity 0.3s ease-in-out;
}
.iconHitbox:hover .icon {
opacity: 1;
cursor: pointer;
}
There is also an iframe on the page. The iconHitbox changes the iframe's source on click.
The problem:
If I hover over the top half of the button, the opacity doesn't change, as if a hover isn't even detected.
The solution I could think of:
I thought that maybe something else is getting in the way, but no, the setSrc() function works when I click on the upper half of the button.
This is happening because your #test1, #test2, and #test3 elements are being positioned half way over the rainbow circle. You'll need to move them out of the way.
The div with the id "test3" is overlapping with your icon. You can see it in the dev tools of your browser.
You have absolute set. If you remove absolute then adjust positioning you'll be good.
try:
#mainPageIcon {
background-color: black;
position: relative;
top: 25px;
}
.iconHitbox {
height: 8vh;
width: 8vh;
}

Inconsistent border widths on pseudo-elements because of translate3d -- but why?

(I've tried searching for this but can't seem to describe it correctly--if this answer exits, please point me in the right direction!)
I'm playing around with some css rules. I wanted to make a specific, secondary 2px-wide border on a pseudo-element appear around nav anchors in the header, which open a modal and blur an absolutely-positioned background image div #bg, which sits as such:
<body>
<div id="#bg"></div>
<header id="global-header">
<nav>...</nav>
</header>
</body>
Since I wanted to transition the blur effect, I added translate3d(0,0,0) to #bg, which smoothed the fps by galvanizing the GPU for hardware accelerated processing of CSS. It worked! ...Until I noticed that the vertical (left & right) borders for the links had inconsistent widths across the nav. They were each set at 2px, but every other one looked 1.5(??)px wide. It took me a minute to narrow down why, which ultimately was because of the translate3d transformation. I took screenshots, but I centered and moved the pseudo-elements with border-left: 2px below the header (the effect persisted), and I removed the background image itself so the effect would be easier to see. Here they are:
Inconsistent 2px calculation (with translate3d(0,0,0) on #bg)
Consistent widths (without translate3d transform on #bg)
And for reference, here's the code for the left-bordered pseudo-elements:
#global-header nav ul li a:before {
content: '';
position: absolute;
display: block;
top: 100%;
left: 50%;
height: 100%;
width: 0;
border-left: 2px solid gray;
background-color: transparent;
}
I know that translate3d creates as well as solves a possible host of issues from my searches--but why is this happening? Does it have anything to do with "subpixel calculations"? And why would these calculations render inconsistently throughout the page with hardware acceleration, on something I would assume is hard to mess up?
Edit: So, even without translate3d, the problem-lines flicker to a smaller width when the blur transitions (seen in the code from screenshots) are triggered, and I can reproduce the original issue without translate3d if I add backface-visibility: hidden to the pseudo-element itself. This could hint at general pixel rounding issues, with specific properties as triggers only being a symptom.
After further fiddling, answering my own question: This is not caused caused by hardware acceleration, which was my revised suspicion. Though the use of these effects showcased the problem in my particular case, I was able to recreate a version of my issue without them.
By removing transform3d from the #bg element:
#bg {
.
.
.
/* transform: translate3d(0,0,0); */
}
And, without the backface-visibility property as well, I added some width to the pseudo-element in order to see what these borders would normally look like:
#global-header nav ul li a:before {
content: '';
position: absolute;
display: block;
/* top: 100%; */
/* left: 50%; */
height: 72px;
width: 1px;
border: 2px solid black;
/* backface-visibility: hidden; */
/* border-left: 2px solid black; */
background-color: transparent;
/* transition: height .2s ease; */
}
Duh: I should have expected the result, since earlier I had tried to use the element itself (by making it 1-2px wide and coloring it) instead of border-left, which at the time seemed to fix the issue. Of course, when I did it this time using the above css, the base problem reappeared.
Though I still don't know why the aforementioned properties showcased the problem with border-left as well, addressing this might be too sporadic/situation-dependent to field here, and likely still has more to do with browser rendering than anything else.
Anyway, my question was why transform3d caused this effect, and the answer is, at least in this case, it didn't--it just made it more obvious.

Div not working on this specific document

I've been messing around with images sliding with hover on a separate page from my main work and it worked like a charm. However, when I transfer it to my main page, it doesn't work, for some reason. I even copy-and-pasted so there should be absolutely no problem going on.
.pictureContainer2 img:hover {
top: 50px;
}
.pictureContainer2 img {
position: relative;
top: 0px;
transition: top .2s ease-in-out; }
And this is how it is in the body.
<div class="pictureContainer2">
<img src="icontag.png"></div>
I'm sorry if this is obvious or just plain silly. I just got into web development.
Thanks for you time.

How to use text as background opposed to using an image? CSS

Just like the Title says, "How to use text as a background instead of an image?"
I'm making a little application, that I personally think is cool but will probably be a waste of peoples time, and am altering the button in the drop down button to an upside down triangle using this html code ▼ . I'm not talking about setting the z-index or anything just simply placing a character for the little arrow. I thought about leaving it blank but I don't think users would understand that they are supposed to use the menu if I did so. Therefore I'm going to use the upside down triangle.
My CSS for the drop-down list is set up like this
select {
border: none;
overflow: hidden;
background: no-repeat right #ffffff;
-moz-appearance: none;
-webkit-appearance: none;
text-indent: 0.01px;
text-overflow: '';
}
Put the text inside an HTML tag with class .text-background, set CSS styles to
.text-background {
position: absolute;
z-index: 1;
}
and set z-index to the elements you want to be on top of the text with z-index higher than 1.
edit:
If you know what the size of the select element is, you probably want to position that text over the dropdown. This however will block the button.
JSFiddle
If you want better looks and functionality you can use a 3rd party libraries such as this or this.
edit 2:
I just found this CSS only solution given by Danield that's probably going to suite your needs better.
https://stackoverflow.com/a/13968900/1419575
Try This, as suggested by Paulo Bergantino:
JS Fiddle
Click Here
HTML
<div id="container">
<div id="background">
Text to have as background
</div>
Normal contents
</div>
CSS
#container{
position: relative;
}
#background{
position: absolute;
top: 0;
left: 0;
bottom: 0;
right: 0;
z-index: -1;
overflow: hidden;
}

CSS: round corners + opacity = image disappears in Firefox 19

I want to add rounded corners to my images using CSS and also change the opacity on mouseover because this is cute. There's a bug: after mouseover, the image disappears.
The CSS is pretty simple:
.article img {
margin-bottom: 5px;
-moz-border-radius: 15px; /* for Firefox */
-webkit-border-radius: 15px; /* for Webkit-Browsers */
border-radius: 15px; /* regular */
}
.article:hover .img {
opacity: 0.8;
}
html also just for a test (this is first image that I have googled):
<li class="article">
<div class="img">
<a href="#">
<img src="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02371/karen-ann-jones_2371086k.jpg" alt="Url">
</a>
</div>
</li>
You can see it on jsfiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/9DjLT/3/
Browser: ff19
I encountered this problem recently while trying to implement block-level links on my website, and I solved it by adding the following rule to the un-hovered img declaration:
border: 0.001em solid transparent;
A hack, to be sure, but it seems to work.
I think you have problem in css because of li:hover its taking 100% width. So till your mouse cursor on li your image effect by opacity. Just try below change in CSS
.img a:hover{
opacity: 0.8;
}
FWIW, I hit a similar problem in Chrome 38. In my case, I had a div with a border-radius value, and an image element with a transparency value, and the transparent image was hidden. To fix this, I added a non-1 opacity to the parent element (with the border-radius). Something like this:
.round_box {
border-radius: 5px;
opacity: 0.999999;
}
.transparent {
opacity: 0.6;
}
<div class="round_box">
<div class="transparent">
</div>
... Adding opacity: 0.999999; to the parent element made the transparent element display properly. I should note that I also have a lot of other interesting styles going on - drop shadows, column layout - but, maybe a similar hack will work for others.