Image replacement and text-align: right - html

I'm trying to do implement image resizing techniques, and they all work very well -- that is, until you pop in a:
body {
text-align: right;
}
Example: http://jsfiddle.net/mAGhh/
Has anyone dealt with this before? I could certainly wrap all the elements and use image replacement then, but I'm pretty sure I will run into inline issues ....

If you use this to remove the text for image replacement:
element {
text-indent: -9999px;
}
...and you have text-align:right, the negative indentation won't work right. The trick is designed to work with standard left-aligned text.
A good defensive measure is to explicitly declare text-align:left on the element when you do image replacement this way.

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Newline between html element breaks html layout

I know that a newline in html between elements is treated as space, but I think this is pretty scary when you try to play with responsive layout.
For example, here we have the expected and correct behaviour, but to obtain it I had to remove the newline in the html between the element:
https://jsfiddle.net/xew2szfu/1/
<div class="recommend-friend__dialog">You should see only me</div><div class="recommend-friend__dialog recommend-friend__dialog--variant">... but NOT ME!</div>
Here I wrote the html with a newline, as you normally do, and everything got broken:
https://jsfiddle.net/rL1fqwkc/1/
<div class="recommend-friend__dialog">You should see only me</div>
<div class="recommend-friend__dialog recommend-friend__dialog--variant">... but NOT ME!</div>
I know I can fix the problem with a float: left, but I wonder if I missed something, the default behaviour sounds really incorrect to me.
It is happening because inline-block puts a space in between elements, and with the space the second div moves down, since it can't fit on the line any more.
There are many ways to combat this. As you said, float is one of them. This excellent CSS Tricks article is a great help, but I'll go over the ones you probably want:
Negative margin:
nav a {
display: inline-block;
margin-right: -4px;
}
Very simple, you can have a nice html format, but moves the element over to hide the space.
Set the font-size to 0:
.recommend-friend__slider{
font-size: 0;
}
.recommend-friend__dialog {
font-size: 12pt;
}
Or, my personal favorite, skip the inline block and use flexbox instead.

Rotating text via the use of <p> & some CSS transforms, makes text wrap

I need to display text vertically in a rowspan within a table. The technique I'm using via CSS seems to "work", but the width of the <p> element can't be changed or else the text wraps to the next line and its not pretty.
Take a look at this jsfiddle I put together in order to replicate my issue.
http://jsfiddle.net/wn4ofcwx/
Any alternatives here? Or possible a fix to my current CSS.
Note: Probably doesn't matter but I'm using the INK Framework (similar
to bootstrap).
Actually I figured it out, it was as simple as using white-space: nowrap;
Which I completely forgot about!
http://jsfiddle.net/wn4ofcwx/7/
The text doesn't wrap because we are explicitly stating nowrap, you can re size the window to see how it keeps its position, now I can apply a width of just 10px to take away all that excessive white space in the rowspan.
Check this out: http://jsfiddle.net/wn4ofcwx/4/
What I added to the class .rotate-vertical:
display: block;
margin: auto auto;
height: 17px;
And I took out : Width: 50px;
Cheers
Actually you can keep out the : display: block;
The p element is already a display: block by default and you didn't overwrite it anywhere.

CSS block positioning at end of paragraph

I am trying to transcribe some of Prof. Dr. Edsger Dijkstra's EWD's, but running into a little problem. In his writing he likes to place comments such as 'End of Proof' at the end of the paragraph, right aligned when there is room, or on the next line otherwise. I would like to recreate this formatting, but seem unable to do so. I'd really prefer a solution using only CSS, but if that proves impossible, JavaScript is also allowed.
Please see http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd10xx/EWD1001.PDF on page number 0 (2nd page of PDF) the comment "End of Legenda" and page number 3 (5th page of PDF) the comment "End of Remark".
I've tried using the display: block / float: right combo which #starx answered with. However, as it is a float, it does not move the rest of the text down. Looking through the source document, the formatting seems ad-hoc, but it seems Dijkstra liked to keep it on the same line if possible, or move it to the next, right aligned, if not.
Searched through the different CSS specs, but I can't as yet fathom a way to accomplish this.
Assuming, you are giving class block to the element.
.block {
display: block;
width: 200px; /* minimum needed to be inline */
float: right;
}
My suggestion would be to use the :after pseudo-element to add the caption at the end of the appropriate paragraph:
.remark:after {
content: 'End of Remark';
color: red;
display: inline-block;
float: right;
}
Example: http://dabblet.com/gist/2406457
If this (End of sth) text must be on its own line, then make it a block (it could be already a block if it's a paragraph or an HTML5 footer element but then it doesn't change anything ;) ) and align text to the right with text-align: right;.
If text isn't exactly 100% right, then you can play with its width or with padding-right:
.end_of {
display: block;
text-align: right;
padding-right: 20px;
}
EDIT: by default, an element rendered as a block is 100% wide. No float, no need to either clear next element from any float or clear block element from previous floats.
If you float the extra content to the right, you will also need to clear the float, otherwise the extra content will conflict with the rest of the text.
So here's my solution. Tested on all major browsers.
.theEnd:after {
display:block;
content:'End of Latin';
text-align:right;
white-space:nowrap;
padding-left:1em;
float:right;
}
.theEnd + * {clear:right}
See jsFiddle.

Heading / Title

I have attached an example of what I am trying to achieve using html/css (if you cannot see the image it is: first name and surname, then second line is job description). I would like the all the text (both lines) to be forced justified (left and right) within a div but I am not sure if it is possible. I have tried a few things with no success. I would rather not use an image, so any idea would be greatly appreciated.
Browsers generally do a crap job at full justification. If you are a design company using this to promote yourself, I'd avoid it.
Also, it only works on paragraphs of text, not single lines.
You can try tweaking the CSS letter spacing to get the effect you're looking for.
Use text-align-last: justify:
.justified {
text-align: justify;
text-align-last: justify;
}
.justified:after {
content: ".";
display: inline-block;
width: 100%;
height: 0;
visibility: hidden;
}
http://jsfiddle.net/gilly3/En4wt/
source
Since you only want to style the title, you can create specific styles for it. Try combining font-size with letter-spacing until you get the effect you want to achieve.
Text align: justified is for a different purpose, it's meant for paragraphs (or long blocks of text). If you don't have enough text to reach the end of the line, it doesn't work.

CSS: Vertical-Align text?

I am using the following HTML:
<p>← Back</p>
To create the following:
← Back
Problem is, the left arrow is not vertically aligned in the middle. It appears to be at the lower 3rd.
Question: how do I get the left arrow to be aligned vertically in the middle (of the letter "B") using CSS?
UPDATE:
Is it possible for me to vertically adjust/align this:
Without modifying my HTML, and
Without using an image?
The arrow is a simple character, so it's aligned like the others (it is in the "middle", the creator of the font wants it to be where it is... maybe that's the middle of lower-case character). Maybe it looks different using another font, maybe not. If you have a fixed font and that one looks messy, you could try to use the :first-letter selector (or wrap the arrow in a span or something) to move it up 1 or 2 px (position:relative: top:-2px;).
Another solution would be to use an image for this, like most websites do (and there are many free icon sets out there — my favourite is famfamfam)
You can wrap your arrow in SPAN tag and then play with line-height and vertical-align CSS properties.
Generally you should not do this, you should let it as the font was conceived by its author.
But it you want to change it you can do it like this:
<p><a href="http://www.example.com/">
<span style="position:relative;top:-3px;">←</span>
Back
</a></p>
Note: Use what you need instead of -3px, I used that just to illustrate how the position can be changed.
I think you have to use a image for the left arrow than &larr.
It IS possible to have the &larr in a separate span, have some specific padding to bring the arrow to the right position, or use a specific font that has the arrow at the center, but this will have side effects.
I suggest you use an image.
There are two possible answers to this.
The way you're writing it, this is not a graphical element (arrow) followed by a label ("Back"), but a line of text (inside a paragraph) containing a single character followed by a letter string. So alignment is a purely typographical problem and determined by the font you're choosing. Choose a different font and see if it's more typographically pleasing.
What you want is really not a line of text but two independently placeable graphical elements. Put each inside its own span, give it display: inline-block and position: relative and play with vertical paddings, margins and line-heights until you're satisfied.
You have some options:
1. Put the arrow between span tags before the word Back, add an id to this span object and then assign the style in the css file playing with: padding-top or bottom and also vertical-align or position relative.
2. The second option is using the image as background and then you have to create the style for this link:
li a#link,#link_conten{
background-image: url(../../../img/arrow.gif);
background-position: left top;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
}
In addition, it is not common (from the semantic point of view) to put just the link (tag a) inside a paragraph (tag p). Then you have to deal with the default css rules for tag a and p but of course depends of your design
You could use CSS generated content. This will mean editing your HTML - to remove the arrow. Essentially you're creating a pseudo-element that sits in front of the link, and you can style it however you like, e.g.
a.back:before {
content: "\2190 "; /* Unicode equivalent of ← */
display: inline-block;
padding: 5px;
background-color: aqua;
}
On the downside this won't work in IE 6 or 7. You might be able to work around that with some targeted javascript.
If you don't want to edit your HTML, you could give :first-letter a try. It only works on block-level elements, so you'll need to work accordingly, e.g.
a.back {
display: inline-block;
}
a.back:first-letter {
background-color: aqua;
padding: 5px;
}
I've had trouble getting this to display consistently cross-browser though. IE8 and FF3.6 do rather different things with the code.