Fixing html and css - html

First.. How do i fix this:
http://jsfiddle.net/kLjcq/
I am seeing this properly formatted on my browser..!
http://picpaste.com/pics/Screenshot_from_2013-02-07_13_31_20-ViIvXLQf.1360273538.png
http://picpaste.com/pics/Screenshot_from_2013-02-07_13_37_15-GBjeEsL8.1360273595.png
But on the fiddel it messes things up.. :( What happened? HOw do i fix this?
Second is.. if i have long string... it shoots over that light gray border of the heading
"Reading from xml..." thingy
What I am looking for is that the maxiumum spread of this text goes upto that border.. and after that.. it breaks to a next line.. so that text is enclosed properly..
In div.content
div.content {
background-color: #add8e6;
display:inline-block;
margin-top: 20px;
border-radius: 10px;
position: relative;
top:-5px;
}
I tried to add limit and stuff.. but it limits the blue box to a pixel value
but instead i want text (and blue box) to limit upto certain limit after which it
breaks to a new line...
any clues.
Thanks

You're absolutely positioning the .checksheet class. This removes it from the document flow. Other elements like your .content-class don't care for it.
I don't know why you use position: absolute; in this context, but it's producing your mistake.

Your fiddle is breaking because you're using absolute positioning. When the screen is narrow, your elements in the checklist are wrapping around, but the elements that follow are positioned in a way that assumes the preceding element is only 1 line instead of 2.
Without the actual markup relating to your second question, we can only guess at what the actual problem is. However, since you're using pre in the sample provided, the culprit is most likely there. What you need is to add a property like this:
white-space: pre-wrap
Without this property, the pre tag generally does not allow elements to word-wrap, which will cause it to take up as much horizontal space as possible to display all of the text.

Related

Wrapping words at the right point

I would like to wrap the text inside a div container, but I don't want words to be cut at some "random" character.
I have tried with style="word-wrap: normal", but that only works in IE, not in Firefox. When using style="white-space: some option", words get cut at unwanted points. For example the word "reason" is shown as "reas" at the end of the line and "on" at the beginning of the next line. Using the option "nowrap" is not ok, because the text exceeds the margins of the div container.
<div style="text-align: justify;">I agree, fully and voluntarily, to participate in this research study. With this, I retain the right to withdraw my consent, without having to give a reason for doing so.</div>
I would like that word wrapping occurs at the end of each line, if the space is insufficient for the whole text inside the div container. But I also want words to be sliced in a grammatically correct way or not sliced at all: simply show the word that does not fit at the end of the line in the following line.
This is the situation right now:
It looks like your CSS is set to use word-break: break-all. If you change / override it to use word-break: normal then it won't happen anymore.
Demo:
div { width: 190px; background: #ffc; }
#div1 { word-break: break-all; }
#div2 { word-break: normal; }
<div id="div1">
Without having to give a reason.
Without having to give a reason.
Without having to give a reason.
</div>
<br>
<div id="div2">
Without having to give a reason.
Without having to give a reason.
Without having to give a reason.
</div>
Not sure, if you tried this, but the answer may be to simply increase the size of the border
border-width = //put a value here

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.

show background of empty span

Let's say that I have a span and I set an image as the background of the span like this:
<span style="background:url("my_image.png") no-repeat;"></span>
As you can see above, my span is empty. If I put some content in my span like:
<span style="background:url("my_image.png") no-repeat;">Some content...</span>
I can see the background image of the span with no problem. But If I leave the span empty I don't see the background image. I figured that I could solve this issue by adding some padding to my span like:
<span style="background:url("my_image.png") no-repeat;padding:20px;"></span>
But is there another way I can do this without adding some padding to my span and keep my span empty?
Thank you
You get the same effect by using inline-block but setting width and height instead of using padding.
<span style="background:url('my_image.png') no-repeat; display: inline-block; width: 40px; height: 40px;"></span>
Also, something else that could trip you up is you are using double-quotes inside of an HTML attribute, which would confuse a parser and could lead to unexpected results. I've changed them to single quotes in the code I posted above, although no quotes would do just as well.
just don't make it empty: put a 'blank' inside. There are three ways, to do that:
simple space and add style white-space: pre; to it
Non-breaking Space or  
The non plus ultra is, to let css do the trick for you:
add this style to your span:
:before {
content: "\200D";
display:inline;
}
What happens:
you add a content before (or better "in front inside") your span, that displays a ZERO WIDTH JOINER, and your span is not empty enymore
By default spans are inline page elements (rather than 'block' elements). This means they won't take up any more space in the page than that assigned to them—for example, if you place text in them (as you have found). To achieve what you want, you need a little CSS to define a height and width for the span, but you also need to make it a block element so that it is rendered consistently.
Alternatively, you could switch to something like a div, which is already a block element. Note however that defining a block element means it will take up space in your page. If you want something more dynamic consider some on-the-fly manipulation of the element with Javascript or similar.
(Either way, ignore the advice elsewhere on this page about single and double quotes in HTML attributes: that is utter nonsense).
try
<span style="background:url('my_image.png') no-repeat; display:block; height: 40px;"></span>
You have to specify a width and height to show the background. When you're typing something in it you force both with the text.
<span style="background:url("my_image.png") no-repeat; width: 50px; height: 25px"></span>
You should set a width and height.
In the following SO-Question is a tip, how to get the size of the background-image: How do I get background-image size in jQuery

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.