I have to implement this grid of divs. It won't change often, but it may at some point (meaning a box may be removed, and another resized). Each black box will eventually contain an image or a word, but that's not important.
How do I pull this off? Is there a more elegant way than by absolutely positioning every single box and manually entering every X/Y/width/height?
A grid based approach would be my recommendation.
Something like: http://960.gs/
EDIT (some more options)
http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/grids/
http://cssgrid.net/
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I have a QGridLayout with QLabels in it that are displaying some values and the units to that values. For good readability I want the value to be left-aligned within the QLabel and the unit to be right-aligned.
At first I wanted to do this with QtStyleSheets but the only way I found was to change the text-alignment of the whole widget like this:
myLabel.setStyleSheet("QLabel {qproperty-alignment: AlignRight}")
My second thought was to do it via HTML but there I also encountered several problems. Here is what I tried:
myLabel.setText("<div align=\"left\">Value<\div><div align=\"right\">Unit<\div>")
This does the right thing, after that the value is left-aligned and the unit right-aligned, but they are not on the same line anymore. Nevertheless it appears to me the more promising approach. Unluckily I am not very familiar with HTML.
Can anybody help?
Or if you really just want go on with html in QLabel use table instead of div's. But #saeed is right, better use Qt Layouts and spacer between them.
Example with HTML:
myLabel.setText("<table width=\"100%\"><td width=\"50%\" align=\"left\">Value</td><td width=\"50%\" align=\"right\">Unit</td></table>");
I suggest you to use two Qlabels and a Horizontal spacer like image below , this is fast and you can let Qt handle whole design layout.
This is my code:
<table>...Some content...</table>
<table>...Another content...</table>
I want to put the second table on top of the first table. This is to be used as an email template (in some clients position and margin are not available).
Those are the only two options available (outside of transform, which definitely won't work if position isn't available) that will allow one element to invade another element's space. If you can't use position or margin, then you're out of luck, and you need to re-evaluate what you are trying to achieve and why. Any chance you could do this with images?
There are always ways...not always elegant, but when you have limited options, 'works' is often all you really need. IMO, creativity is as much about solving a problem with limited options as it is thinking 'outside the box'.
Most email clients allow you to set 'height', so simply wrap the first table (the background) in a div and give that div height:0px;. the table will overflow the div, but the next element won't respect it's space because it has 0 height, and will effectively be layered in front.
http://jsfiddle.net/L0d3tnzu/
If you want the size of the tables to match exactly, you'll probably have to explicitly set heights and widths, but the fiddle above illustrates the basic concept. Hope this helps!
EDIT:
Based on the additional info in the comment (the second table should only partly overlap the first table) here is an updated fiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/acq3ob6y/1/
EDIT #2:
Dang. Outlook switching to the Word/Office rendering engine for HTML/CSS might be the only way possible to get WORSE than the IE version. Sigh. (Thanks to #Gortonington for the comment/clarification, though!)
Ok, then, the idea of a background image is only a problem for retina displays (if you want them to be all crisp and beautiful and retina-ie), and retina devices are going to be handling CSS in a more modern way (hopefully!), so how about this as a solution: Media Query targeting device resolution loads CSS with the double-size img and uses css background-size to constrain it: http://jsfiddle.net/tcyjo7ok
Third try is a charm? At least the list of options is growing...
The only way to overlay two elements across email clients is through use of background images. Even this can be broken in some clients and requires a lot of conditional and reiterate code (backgrounds.cm is good resource for email bg images).
This is the only option that will display in MOST clients. Even this is still very restricted and not very agile to use (but that is true in ALL email coding). Most other techniques will only work for a couple clients and break completely in all others.
This seems dissimilar to the accordion functionality provided by bootstrap.
To give an example, let's take the "how to format" info starting me in the face right now. I'd want it so that it only displays up to X pixels deep, and then stops until expanded. So it might look like:
and then, once expanded,
I happen to be using bootstrap. Is there a bootstrap native or other HTML solution to create this kind of experience?
Assume that the thing that I only want to show of is a single element, such as an image, rather than a series of text. This means a solution like min-height:50px and overflow:hidden won't work, as it will simply hide the entire image rather than part of it.
We can use jQuery .height() to accomplish knowing the rendered height of an element then making conditional modifications.
Documentation and examples for jQuery .height().
A combination of height and overflow in combination with the toggling of a class should work here.
http://jsfiddle.net/fm56je84/1/
The click of the arrow is bound to the following function:
function expandCollapse() {
$("#container").toggleClass("expanded");
$(".glyphicon").toggleClass("glyphicon-arrow-down"); // Flip Arrow
}
I'm currently developing out a blog page with a 3 X 3 grid layout for content to fall into the different boxes (see attached example).
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/337/cssex.jpg/
The content blocks in the lighter gray are meant to be stationary, so any updated, recently added, etc. content will not affect these boxes, only the black ones. I'm trying to figure out the best approach with keeping the gray boxes stationary, but allowing the black boxes to be populated dynamically (WordPress blog entries) and floating naturally through the layout.
As of now, I'm thinking that each individual black box will query the recent post that aligns to it. So, the first black box would query the most recent post, the second black box would query the second recent post and so on.
A big order!
Here is the general idea to help get you going:
You need to make those blocks a <div> or <section> with an ID tag like this:
<section id=brief1>
(BTW, you can also use a "table" & merge cells to get that layout, just ensure you use an ID)
Then you need find a script to update the innerHTML using straight JavaScript, or a JS library like jQuery, MooTools, etc. This will allow you to inject text &/or an image inside those boxes. Example search: http://duckduckgo.com/?q=javascript+update+innerHTML+div
Once you have 1 spot updated with text, it is time to edit that script. Make an array of our ID tags, then loop though all of them to insert new content one at a time.
Good luck! If I see something pre-rolled on my travels, I'll update this thread.
I'm trying to create a gray "frame" (see pic below) around a google map, to try to convey the concept of an area of focus, as oppose to a point (which is usually represented with a marker). Note that this is not an overlay, that is, the gray "frame" should not move when you drag the map.
Edited: image link added
It appears that only option is to "subclass" GControl to create a custom control. I have 3 questions
1) First of all, is GControl subclassing the best course of action?
2) In my example, the canvas (div) where map renders can change its size (i.e is not fixed width). Do I have to delete and add custom control when canvas changes size? See docs http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/controls.html#Custom_Controls on how to create a custom map control.
3) Now, how to do it. Naively, I thought I could create a table with 3 columns and 3 rows, and set display: none for the cell in the middle. But that doesn't work. I've also experimented with clipping, that didn't work either. My css skills are quite lacking, so there must be way to do this more elegantly than adding four rectangular gray divs. If I wanted to add an inner border, with divs, I would need to paint 8 then. In a nutshell, what's the best way to create a "hollow" rectangle?
Thanks
P.S. This is my first entry to StackOverflow. Just discovered it. It's impressive how well SO is put together.