I run into a css issue.
I have a form, and inside it I want to show a label and some info in each line.
The html for the form is:
<form class="form_dialog">
</br>
<label>Status: </label>
<span><img src="images/check.png" alt="check mark" width="16" height="16"/></span>
</br></br>
<label>Type: </label>
<span>V1</span>
</br></br>
<label>Description: </label>
<div class="sp">16 Nodes - Test for long description.
This system is good in all cases. Max length is 100.</div>
</form>
The css for all the tags are:
form.form_dialog {float: left; clear: left;}
.form_dialog div {float:left; clear:left}
.form_dialog label {
display: block; float: left;
width: 12.0em; min-height: 2.0em; text-align: right;
}
.form_dialog span {
margin-left: 3.0em;
}
div.sp {
display:inline;
margin-left:3em;
margin-right:3em;
width:70%;
}
My prob here is that for the description info, I want to keep the text lines indented(each line starts from the same position) as well as inline with label. But cannot achieve it.
Any one can help on this? Thanks.
You are creating a table. You could use a table, or use two seperate elements, placed side by side inside of a containing .
<div class="container">
<div class="formContainer">
</div>
<div class="textContainer">
</div>
</div>
Then float each container and align your text using CSS.
Agreed with Trendy, also, since you starting using span tag, you should just use the span
<span>16 Nodes - Test for long description.
This system is good in all cases. Max length is 100.</span>
Related
My label is on one line and text is on the next line. How could I modify the css to make them both on the same line? I have tried several things such as float based on other posts but they still are on different lines.
.indentColumn {
width: 71px;
padding-top: 5%;
}
.labelColumn {
width: 71px;
margin-left: 15%;
}
.inputForm {
margin-left: 30%;
}
<div class="indentColumn">
<div class="labelColumn">
<div class="inputForm">
<span class="secNav">
<label display:inline-block; for="username">#springMessageText("idp.login.username", "User ID:")
</label>
<input class="fieldColumn" display: inline-block; id="username" name="j_username" type="text" size="20" maxlength="64" minlength="6"
value="#if($username)$encoder.encodeForHTML($username)#end">
</span>
</div>
</div>
</div>
Thanks for the help everyone.I removed all the divs, display and also the class in the textbox and now they are on the same line. The main issue seemed to be the class in the textbox because only after I removed that did they appear on the same line.
I also found that there was a form div that was set to 250px that was causing the text field to go onto the next line whenever there was a left-margin. Once I removed that, things started working better.
If you want them on the same line, then put them in a container that is wider than 71 pixels.
There isn't room in 71 pixels for them to fit side by side.
CSS
label{
display:inline-block;
}
and remove <label display:inline-block; ... /> - its wrong
I've got an issue that I'd love to solve by using CSS without resorting to statically sizing my labels (but perhaps it isn't possible).
I have two labels per line, one for displaying a "title" and the other for displaying the associated "value". Here's how I'd like it to look:
This is similar to Align labels in form next to input but I'm wanting the second element per line left-aligned instead of the first one to be right-aligned. I tried modifying the accepted answer from that question and set the width of the "title" label, but that has no effect on my output. As I mentioned above, I'd rather not hard-code a width anyways, but I was hoping to get something working before trying to find a good, long-term solution that can account for larger "title" values.
Here's my current CSS (the classes should be self-explanatory):
.propertyTitle {
text-transform: uppercase;
width: 300px;/*Why doesn't this have any effect?*/
}
.propertyValue {
text-align: left;
}
And my current HTML:
<div>
<div>
<label class="propertyTitle">Hello:</label>
<label class="propertyValue">World</label>
</div>
<div>
<label class="propertyTitle">Goodbye:</label>
<label class="propertyValue">To All of the People in the World</label>
</div>
<div>
<label class="propertyTitle">I Want:</label>
<label class="propertyValue">These labels to line up</label>
</div>
</div>
The HTML can be modified as well, if that'd make it easier. To conform with best practices, I'd rather not use tables to make this work.
Here's a jsFiddle showing what I have now, what am I missing? Ideally this solution would work for IE8+ and Firefox, so unfortunately HTML5 and CSS3 elements are discouraged.
EDIT
To reiterate after the first two answers came in (that both solve my issue), is there a way to do this without hard-coding a width for my "title" labels?
grouping your divs and labels like so:
<div>
<div class="titleWrap">
<label class="propertyTitle">Hello:</label>
<label class="propertyTitle">Goodbye:</label>
<label class="propertyTitle">I Want:</label>
</div>
<div class="valueWrap">
<label class="propertyValue">World</label>
<label class="propertyValue">To All of the People in the World</label>
<label class="propertyValue">These labels to line up</label>
</div>
</div>
with the following CSS:
.propertyTitle {
display:block;
text-transform: uppercase;
width: auto;
}
.titleWrap{
display:inline-block;
}
.propertyValue {
display:block;
width:auto;
}
.valueWrap {
display:inline-block;
}
should give you the desired result without having to specify the widths
Check out this jsFiddle
try using display:inline-block on your labels
.propertyTitle {
text-transform: uppercase;
width: 300px;/*Why doesn't this have any effect?*/
display: inline-block;
}
by default label is an inline element. that's why width property doesn't apply to label.
to apply the width you have to convert the label into a block level element by using display:block.
I hope it clarify the answer.
so you have to use this CSS property in your code.
.propertyTitle {
text-transform: uppercase;
display:inline-block; /*this will make the label a block level element*/
width: 300px;/*Why doesn't this have any effect?*/
}
More modern version is display: inline-flex;
My goal is an alignment as shown in the attached image (the fields on the left may have any width, but the ones on the right should begin at the same X coordinate).
Right now I am using a simple table code to achieve this:
<table><tr>
<td>Left1</td><td>Right 1</td></tr>
<tr><td>Left 2</td><td>Right 2</td></tr></table>
However, I've heard that using tables is generally bad. Is there a way I could achieve the same design using CSS? The website is being designed for mobile devices which might not support fancy CSS, so the code must be as simple as possible.
EDIT: since I still occasionally get a notification on this question from people who (presumably) are just starting out with HTML like I was when I made it, please refer to the accepted answer by B T as this is by far the best way to achieve this functionality. The question suggested as a "possible duplicate" (31 May 2016) does not currently offer the table-row/table-column CSS-based approach and requires you to do guess work.
I found a much easier way to do this by accident. Say you have the following:
<div class='top'>
<div>Something else</div>
<div class='a'>
<div>Some text 1</div>
<div>Some text 2</div>
</div>
<div class='a'>
<div>Some text 3</div>
<div>Some text 4</div>
</div>
</div>
You can align Some text 1 and Some text 2 using css table display styling like this:
.a {
display: table-row;
}
.a div {
display: table-cell;
}
The coolest thing is that as long as the 'top' div is NOT styled display: table, then other things like "Something else" can be ignored in terms of alignment. If the 'top' div IS styled display: table, then "Some text 1" will be aligned with "Something else" (ie it treats all its children like table rows, even if they have a different display style).
This works in Chrome, not sure if its supposed to behave this way, but I'm glad it works.
.a {
display: table-row;
}
.a div {
display: table-cell;
}
<div class='top'>
<div>Something else</div>
<div class='a'>
<div>Some text 1</div>
<div>Some text 2</div>
</div>
<div class='a'>
<div>Some text 3</div>
<div>Some text 4</div>
</div>
</div>
While it is possible to achieve the same with tables, it would be considered semantically incorrect to use a table for the purpose of layout. Especially since you can achieve the same using just a line or two of CSS.
Give your labels a fixed width (something larger than your longest label text).
<style>
label {
width: 100px;
display: inline-block;
}
</style>
<label>Name</label>
<input type="text" />
<br/>
<label>Email Address</label>
<input type="text" />
Example
Here, you could use this for getting the output required.
Using tables IMO is not bad practice, in fact they should be used where tabular data is required, or the format of data resembles a table.
However, designing a full page, or anything not to be displayed in a tabular format, using a table is discouraged, and is in fact very very wrong.
Here goes a sample using a non-table structure:
HTML :
<form>
<label for="name">Email: </label><input id="name" type="email" placeholder="#" />
<br/><br />
<label>Password: </label><input type="password" id="password" placeholder="*"/>
</form>
CSS:
label {
width: 80px;
display: block;
vertical-align: middle;
float:left;
clear:left;
}
input {
border-top-left-radius:5px;
border-bottom-right-radius: 10px;
background: #141414;
color: #fdd56c;
outline: none;
}
Here is an example
Yes, such alignment is possible. Using CSS classes, you can markup your HTML in such a way to achieve the same look of a table without the headache of using a table (or making the markup look ugly).
Using this CSS:
.label {
display: inline-block;
width: 100px;
}
.inputBox {
width: 200px;
}
and this HTML:
<span class="label">E-mail:</span><input type="email"></input><br>
<span class="label">Password:</span><input type="text"></input>
you'll get the layout you want.
To do this with IE7 support, change the CSS above to this:
.label {
display: block;
width: 100px;
float: left;
clear: left;
}
Then, add this line below the lines already shown:
<div style="clear: left"></div>
Example using IE7-compatible settings: http://jsfiddle.net/bbXXp/
True. I am learning it the hard way. I used table for alignment, and now, certain alignments are becoming bizzare in smaller screens (e.g. mobile phone, tablets etc). Hence, am switching over to div. Preferable use <div style="display:inline-block">...</div>, which will align automatically if the screen is smaller.
Hence, my advice is that Table should be used only for genuine tables, and not for aligning controls in a body.
I am trying to position some stuff in 3 columns. The first column has an icon, 2nd column has text, and the 3rd column has an image.
I wish to do this without using the Table tag. Using CSS I have gotten the first 2 columns placed correctly, here is an image:
On the right, I need to add another image, without disturbing the text on the left.
This is my HTML code (stripped down to the basics):
<img src="Images/icon-1.png" />
<span class="content-title">My title 1</span>
<p>
Here is my text ...
</p>
<br />
<img src="Images/Icon-2.png" />
<span class="content-title">My Title 2</span>
<p>
Here is my text ...
</p>
<br />
And the CSS that emulates the table layout:
.content-title
{
font-size: 26px;
font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;
color: #363636;
top: -28px;
position:relative;
left:+10px;
font-weight: bold;
}
#content-benefits p
{
margin-left:80px;
top:-30px;
position:relative;
width:325px;
}
My issue is, that I can't figure out how to place my image on the right, without making it's position:absolute;, but if I do that, I have to (AFAIK) use JavaScript to place the images relatively to their corresponding paragraphs.
If you want another image add it to the HTML before the rest of the "section" and then float it right with:
img {
float: right;
}
On another note, why aren't you using heading tags to display your headings?
You could use the css display:table to make it apear using a table take a look at the docs for this found here
Place the image after the titles span end tag
<img src="Images/icon-1.png" />
<span class="content-title">My title 1</span>
<img src="Images/icon-1.png" />
<p>
Here is my text ...
</p>
<br />
if i properly understand your layout i would do this
<img style="float:left; width:80px" src="image/icon-1.png"/>
<div style="width:405px">
<img style="float:right; width:80px"/>
<div style="float:left; width:325px">
<span/>
<p>
...
</p>
</div>
</div>
you wont need the other positioning you used
if you cannot change the markup,
than put width to the span and p and float:left, and put float:right and width to img
putting float automatically converts the element to display:inline-block which mean that it no longer distributes to the free page width, but takes the minimal allowed space (set by width) and stays rectangular. This way it becomes something like a column.
I am trying to break the table crutch...
I want to place 3 "labels", "First", "Middle" and "Last" over 3 text boxes so that the labels are above the corresponding text boxes and the labels and text boxes are vertically aligned. In other words, I need a 3 columns table where the first row has 3 labels and the 2nd row has 3 text boxes in them and everything is left justified and I want ALL the columns widths to be identical and fixed.
How do I do this with w/o tables using only CSS?
I know that margin-left will give me a consistent distance between the groups, but how do I "carriage return" to the next line w.o using a Paragraph or a break tag, since the distance involved is really a function of the font, I imagine, instead of being able to "carriage return down" a specified number of pixels.
I know that display: block will put things on a new line, but that creates a break before and after. I just want a break "after."
I hope I explained it well enough.
Thanks.
Additional Edit:
I understand that perhaps I should not be avoid using tables for something that tables is good at, but if CSS had an attribute analagos to margin-left:10px but in a vertical direction AFTER performing a cariage return, the advantage of using CSS over tables is that I wouldn't have a million TR and TD tags in my markup.
Is there such a thing?
What you do is create your form fields this way:
<div id="form">
<div class="control">
<div class="label">
<label for="field1">Field 1</label>
</div>
<div class="field">
<input type="text" name="field1" id="field1">
</div>
</div>
...
</div>
with:
#form { overflow: hidden; } // this is important!
#form div.control { float: left; width: 33%; }
Now if one of those labels is larger the controls won't line up but this would be an example of where "pure" CSS falls shorts of what tables can do easily and naturally, which begs the question: why are you giving up on tables?
Note: Another answer along the same lines has suggested not wrapping the label and input in a div. This is a reasonable approach but you lose some expressive power. For instance, some things in CSS are only possible on block level elements. For example, you could change the above with:
#form, div.control { overflow: hidden; width: 600px } // this is important!
#form div.control { float: left; width: 200px; }
#form div.control div { float: left; width: 100px; }
and get your labels on the left, which you can't do quite as well without the wrapping inner divs.
HTML:
<div class="row">
<div class="column">
<label>Left</label>
<input name="left" />
</div>
<div class="column">
<label>Left</label>
<input name="left" />
</div>
<div class="column">
<label>Left</label>
<input name="left" />
</div>
</div>
CSS:
.row .column{
width: 200px;
float:left;
}
.row .column input,
.row .column label{
display:block;
}
You can now use CSS to style the textboxes and labels, so they look nice. Also notice how similar this example is to using tables, which goes to show that in some scenarios tables aren't evil, but the right way to go. If you want to align things in a grid, use tables.
Turns out that if you want to make a table of labels over input fields, the table element is fine to use.... If the table element is the clearest html code, why not use it?