When using a HTML <button> whenever you press the button it moves a little. A small animation to show it's actually a button.
I'm looking for a way to have it stay exactly the way it is, and force my animation using mouse Events.
I started off just placing an <img> and use mouse events to swap the picture. This worked fine, except that it has some side effects I can't seem to get rid of. For starters, pictures can be dragged, which just looks odd if just press the button - hold - and decide you want to leave the button. I can turn off "draggable" but then it will show a blue square selection box, which is very unwanted.
My solution was to place it on a <button> element instead (with hidden background and border). This solves all the problems, except that it's slightly wiggling to the side.
I tried disabling it, but that also disables the javascript events.
How can I force a button to stay in place even if it's clicked?
So you have to use another tag than button (for instance span) and manipulate it's behaviour with javascript.
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I have a toolbar of buttons that are gray by default but when one button is clicked on that button is made white to indicate that that is the page you are on. This is achieved using a class and the below css.
.btn-details:focus {
color: #fff;
}
This works fine except when I change windows and then go back. For example, if I have my page open it is working find, then I switch to an Excel window and then back to my page the white highlighting is now gone. How can I keep the button in focus even when the window is changed?
Unfortunately I think you need to take your time to focus on how CSS works.
You are using the: focus selector. Know that it does what you asked it to. If the button loses focus and your style no longer holds.
I think this is exactly what happens when you use other apps.
I advise you to add a CSS class on the button clicked and to remove this same class on the other buttons.
If you have difficulty implementing this, please come back to me. I would make a small example depending on your level.
See you soon !
I'm trying to figure out how to prevent a popup image from poping up and down repeatedly (forever) when the user moves the mouse to a location on the page.
See https://codesandbox.io/s/jitterbug-on-popup-25kp4 to illustrate the problem. Hover over the text Mouse over this and the Jitter Image will appear to see the jitter problem.
EDIT: Since this was originally posted, I incorporated the solution into the code showing the problem, and now it also shows a solution.
Details
What follows is a text description of the problem, but the code does illustrates the problem as well (and with a lot less text).
On a web page, that has a vertical scroll bar,
The user moves the mouse over a div which has a MouseEnter javascript handler.
the on MouseEnter event fires which causes an image to pop up.
The popup causes the scroll bar to scroll the content. So now, the mouse is no longer hovering over the hover item so the MouseLeave event fires which causes the image to pop down.
With the image no longer being displayed, the scroll bar moves the content back to where it was prior to the popup and viola, the mouse is overtop of the div and the MouseEnter event fires again to pop up the image.
Steps 2-4 repeat forever at the speed at which the browser can keep up.
Or when the user moves the mouse to stop the popup/popdown from happening.
I've seen this happen on some other websites and now that it's happening to me, I want to fix it but I'm not sure how to.
I've searched for a solution but haven't found one yet. Here are some links I found:
https://css-tricks.com/content-jumping-avoid/ - This was good but suggests using min-height which doesn't work in my situation.
I've also tried using overflow: hidden which does prevent the jitter effect described above but leaves the user with no way to see the rest of the popup image. This, however, is a better solution than the jitter effect described above.
I'm using AngularJS and JQuery if that affects the answer.
position:absolute on the image, will solve this as it won't change the current flow when you display the image and the scroll bar will remain in it current position.
I have an element that fires some javascript on click.
Partially covering the element is a mostly-transparent graphic, which passes all events to that element. This way, regardless of if the overlay or the element is clicked, the element gets the events.
I'm trying to write a test in selenium that clicks the element under test and verifies the behavior, however the chrome webdriver tells me it can't click the element because the overlay will get the click event.
That is fine, though... How do I tell selenium that I don't care, to click anyways? I don't want to specifically click the overlay (in this test), the overlay is just eye-candy so the test should still work even if I remove the overlay.
edit:
To make clear... I want it to click in wherever it would have, if the overlay wasn't there. this way it'll click the element if there is no overlay, but click the overlay if covered.
You will not be able to click on the object under the overlay as Selenium has been written to only access what a user can access. If a manual user cannot click through then neither can Selenium.
You could either fire JavaScript directly on that object via the javascript_executor method, or alternatively, perform the interaction which will remove the overlay in your test
I could resolve this issue: In my application top header was visible and i clicked on one of the top elements (which was visible) and could continue with rest of the script execution
I solved this issue by clicking the coordinates of the close button.
Check out this answer. I showed how to click on the little "x" there, without needing to know the name of the actual button. Sometimes its easier to find the class of the image, for example.
Worst case, find the closest element to the button and change the last method to move_to_element_with_offset(element,x, y) to go from the element you found to the coordinates of the button on screen.
Once you do that, the overlay disappears and you can click as normal.
Throughout our application, we use styled input buttons for submitting forms. For some reason you have to precisely click them in order for the click to be registered. Over half the time, it looks like the button is clicked (i.e. changes on mousedown/mouseup), but nothing happens and we have to click again. If we simply remove the css styling, the button works fine all the time.
Example:
Our users really like the look of the styled buttons, but are a bit annoyed by not knowing if the click event went through. Any easy way to solve this?
Update
I was finally able to neatly reproduce this in jsfiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/xRK4C/3/ . You can see the behavior if you click on the upper left few pixels of the button with the rounded corner. I'm thinking it's because the button moves when being clicked, which causes the mouse to be outside the button on mouse-up. Our users wanted this though, so is there any good way to keep the 3d effect without sacrificing click area?
I believe it's the relative positioning on :active. I guess the moving of the button gets the mouse events confused. I'd suggest to changing the margins instead.
EDIT: Margins don't work either, neither a CSS 2 translation.
You need to somehow move the "image" of the button without moving the button (thus the area that is clicked on) itself, but I can't think of anything right now.
Went to the JSFiddle site and played around with the styling there.
I noticed the hover was successful on the edge of the button, but the click was not.
So, I changed the left:2px; top:2px; to left:0px; top:0px; and the hover, of course, still worked, but the click was successful on the edge of the button.
I am trying to get my search boxes to change a different colour on click but at the moment it only changes colour for the duration of time I am holding down on my mouse. As soon as I let go of pressing down the cursor it changes back. How do I make it so it changes colour but as soon as I click something else on the page (even whitespace) it changes back to the original colour?
Take a look at this:
http://jsfiddle.net/LPVfn/
Cheers!
James
use
.search:focus
instead of
.search:active
There is a js library called HoverIntent. Maybe you could use it to get the desired effect.
http://cherne.net/brian/resources/jquery.hoverIntent.html
I'm currently using it to delay displaying a div tooltip for a few milliseconds after the user hovers over the search box.