Although sometimes a pixel here or there must be forgiven and forgotten.
But in this example this simple menu's need to be rendered pixel-perfectly!
That is to say, the gaps between the menu items must be exactly equal.
In my example all menu separators looks ugly and fuzzy and disoriented as some items melt together.
While others are too far apart. Its a mess. After a nights sleeping,
I have come to the conclusion that this is one of those scenario's where the life's motto
of accepting whatever comes at you cannot be accepted and a designer must take a stand.
Whether its a dashed or solid line, the problem occurs in each and every whay I approach it.
setting margins to -1px and adding a border of 1px does not fix this.
Both examples are made from the newest version of Chrome and Firefox in 2022.
Is there a way we can separate the items with an equal, exact pixelated/aliased sharp line, without the vague anti-aliased fuzzy line of seemingly random thickness to happen?
You are allowed to rewrite it entirely or use flexbox or any other elegant CSS solution!
..............................
nav ul{
list-style: none;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
nav {
top: 0px;
left: 0px;
position: absolute;
height: auto;
display: inline-block;
font-style: italic;
font-size: 1.25em;
padding: 0px 0 0 0;
}
nav li {
background-color: blue;
writing-mode: vertical-rl;
transform: scale(-1);
line-height: 1em;
border-top: 1px dashed white;
}
nav li a {
display:block;
text-decoration: none;
color: #fff;
padding: 2em;
}
<nav>
<ul>
<li>Bureau</li>
<li>Projecten</li>
<li>Diensten</li>
<li>Ontwerpen</li>
<li>Concepten</li>
<li>Kunsten</li>
</ul>
</nav>
Borders can be fiddly when you start applying transforms to the element they are applied to, so remove the transform:scale(-1) from the containing <li> elements and transform the <a> instead:
nav li {
background-color: blue;
writing-mode: vertical-rl;
line-height: 1em;
border-top: 1px dashed white;
}
nav li a {
display:block;
text-decoration: none;
color: #fff;
padding: 2em;
transform:rotate(180deg); <- other transforms are available :)
}
Snippet here based on your code: https://codepen.io/29b6/pen/KKQZywz
I'm having a problem with my site
I need the header to come forward, its running on wordpress here is the link to the site: http://goo.gl/E1ErzD
and here is the code that makes the header float:
#header {
padding: 1.618em 0 0;
margin-bottom: 3.631em;
border-bottom: 4px double #e8e4e3;
clear: both;
position: fixed;
You need to set a z-index, and apply a background-color to the header in order for it to move forward. You should also consider setting a width:
#header {
padding: 1.618em 0 0;
margin-bottom: 3.631em;
border-bottom: 4px double #e8e4e3;
clear: both;
position: fixed;
z-index: 9999;/* set this to something high*/
background-color:#fff; /* so you can see it is a block */
min-width:100%; /* play with this too, and asdjust margins. check in IE - you may have to set a width rather then min-width*/
Add this to your css code for the header:
z-index: 1;
The html is:
<div class="choose-os">
<p>
Microsoft Windows
Apple Mac OS
</p>
</div>
The CSS is:
.choose-os {
margin: 20px 0;
padding: 20px;
background: #e7eefa;
}
.choose-os p {
margin: 0;
}
.choose-os p a {
display: inline-block;
text-indent: -100000px;
height: 56px;
width: 308px;
}
.choose-os p a.windows {
background: url(../images/button-windows-bg.png) 0 0;
}
.choose-os p a.macos {
background: url(../images/button-macos-bg.png) 0 0;
}
.choose-os p a:hover {
background-position: 0 -56px;
}
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated as to have the background image also appear on IE7.
The text-indent: -100000px; in combination with inline-block is what's causing the two elements to not be visible in IE7, due to a bug.
You need to find some other way to hide the text for IE7 (or not use inline-block at all, see below for this more suitable fix).
Options include the method in the comment by #Sotiris, or:
.choose-os p a {
display: inline-block;
height: 56px;
width: 308px;
text-indent: -100000px;
/* for ie7 */
*text-indent: 0;
*font-size: 0;
*line-height: 0
}
Which uses the *property: value hack several times to hide the text in IE7.
The problem does seem to be related to the use of display: inline-block.
So, another workaround (which I prefer to my previous one) is:
.choose-os {
margin: 20px 0;
padding: 20px;
background: #e7eefa;
overflow: hidden
}
.choose-os p a {
float: left;
margin-right: 4px;
text-indent: -100000px;
height: 56px;
width: 308px;
}
To display inline-block properly in IE7, add the following styles to .choose-os p a
zoom:1
*display:inline
(The star is important! It's ignored by modern browsers, but not IE6/7)
IE7 doesn't respect inline-block, so you have to do a little magic to make it work. There's a great description here: http://blog.mozilla.com/webdev/2009/02/20/cross-browser-inline-block/
[edit] If text-indent is also part of the culprit, you may be better of sticking with display:block and setting float:left on your elements. Probably multiple valid paths to take :)
IE7 has some serious limitations in CSS. I would recommend avoiding the shorthand notation and explicitly declaring each property, then validate the CSS sheet here.
I've been working on this for a while, and just can't seem to figure it out.
I have a series of position: relative spans which are wrapped around some text and a position: absolute span set to right: 0;. I would expect the second span to be stuck to the right of the first span, even if the first span is broken onto two lines — but alas, I've only been able to get this to work in Safari.
To see an example, take a look here: http://workingonit.andrewleclair.com/slashtest/.
I found this page: http://www.brunildo.org/test/inline-cb.html which suggests that this technique, although technically correct, is not well-supported. What I'd like is for each / to be stuck to the end of each li even if it wraps to multiple lines..
Any ideas? Thanks.
It looks your header is too small. Try to remove the width. If i do so it looks fine in FF 3.6.
#header {
float: left;
margin-right: 48px;
margin-top: 26px;
/*width: 334px;*/
}
Another way is to add white-space: nowrap to your li.
li {
color: #888888;
list-style-type: none;
white-space: nowrap;
}
Edit:
Try this instead...
.slash {
color: #BBBBBB;
padding: 0 2px 0 19px;
}
.header {
background-color: yellow;
border: 1px solid red;
}
Problem
I am working on a project to theme a website, but I am not allowed to change the HTML or JavaScript. I can only update the CSS stylesheet and add/update images.
Requrements
I need to style a h3 tag to have an
underline/border after the content.
This h3 will be used multiple times
on the page, so the conent length can
vary
The solution needs to be
cross-browser (IE 6/7/8, FF 3, &
Safari)
Sample Code
<div class="a">
<div class="b"><!-- etc --></div>
<div class="c">
<h3>Sample Text To Have Line Afterwards</h3>
<ul><!-- etc --></ul>
<p class="d"><!-- etc --></p>
</div>
</div>
Sample Output
Sample Text to Have Line Afterwards ______________________________________
Another Example __________________________________________________________
And Yet Another Example __________________________________________________
Notes
I think #sample:after { content: "__________"; } option wouldn't work since that would only be the correct length for one of the tags
I tried a background-image, but if it gave me problems if I gave it one with a large width
Using text-indent didn't see to give me the effect I was looking for
I tried a combination of border-bottom and text-decoration: none, but that didn't seem to work either
Any ideas would be much appreciated!
This will work if class 'c' is always the parent of the h3...
.c {
position: relative;
margin-top: 25px;
border-top: 1px solid #000;
padding: 0px;
}
h3 {
font-size:20px;
margin-top: 0px;
position: absolute;
top: -18px;
background: #fff;
}
It lets the container have the border, then uses absolute positioning to move the h3 over it, and the background color lets it blot out the portion of c's border that it's covering.
try attaching a background image to class c of a repeating underline, then add a background color to the h3 to match the background of the container. I believe that you would have to float the h3 left in order to get the width to collapse. does that make sense?
.c {
background: #ffffff url(underline.gif) left 20px repeat-x;
}
.c h3 {
margin: 0;
padding: 0 0 2px 0;
float: left;
font-size: 20px;
background: #ffffff;
}
.c h3 { display: inline; background-color: white; margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1em; }
.c ul { margin-top: -1px; border-top: 1px solid; padding-top: 1em; /* simulate margin with padding */ }
http://besh.dwich.cz/tmp/h3.html
H3 {
border: 1px solid red;
border-width: 0 0 1px 0;
text-indent: -60px;
}
You need to know the width of the text, but works pretty well.
The only solution I've imagined so far is to make a PNG or GIF image, with 1px height and a very large width (depends on your project, could be like 1x2000px), and do something like this:
h3#main-title { background: url(line.png) no-repeat bottom XYZem; }
where the XYZ you'd set manually, for each title, in 'em' units. But I can't figure out a 100% dynamic solution for this one, without using JS or adding extra markup.
this worked for me
div.c
{
background-image:url(line.gif);background-repeat:repeat-x;width:100%;height:20px;
}
div.c h3
{
height:20px;background-color:white;display:inline;
}
you make the div the width of your content
then you set the background of the h3 to the background of your page. this will then overlap the background imageof the full div. You might want to play with background positioning depending on your image
Can you pad content in the UL tags? If so, this might work:
h3 { display: inline; margin: 0; padding: 0 10px 0 0; float: left;}
ul { display: inline; border-bottom: 1px solid black; }
check source code of: http://nonlinear.cc/lab/friends/elijahmanor.html
then again i have NO IDEA how to control the end of the line.
Assuming that you're working with dynamic content, the best I could suggest is to accept graceful degradation and use a mix of great_llama and Bohdan Ganicky
Imagine:
A long title that will wrap to two lines___________________
and leave you like this in great_llama's solution
and nothing appearing at all with Bohdan Ganicky's solution if ul isn't immediate preceded by ul.
Solution:
.c h3 { display: inline; background-color: white; margin: 0; padding: 0; line-height: 1em; }
.c + * { margin-top: -1px; border-top: 1px solid; padding-top: 1em; /* simulate margin with padding */ }
We care about IE6, but accept that this is an aesthetic touch and IE6 users will not suffer. If you can't get the designer to accept this AND you can't alter the HTML, then do something else (before you find another job ;))
Here's a better answer:
.c {
background: url('line.png') repeat-x 0 20px;
}
H3 {
background-color: white;
display: inline;
position: relative;
top: 1px;
}
Use a small, 1px height, couple px wide image as your underline and occlude it with a background color on your H3.
h3:after {
content: '___________';
}